Video has surfaced of a PLA General revealing information to an assembled audience on specific cases of espionage, in a frank and straightforward manner that one would expect in a private conversation taking place in a dark parking lot. Major General Jin Yinan (金一南), currently the academic head of the Strategy Institute at National Defense University in Beijing, revealed that the government will often give secret sentences to spies, or accuse them having 'economic' or 'financial' issues in the media, obfuscating the truth behind their treasonous acts in order to save face. more ›

On Tuesday, Moo Ko-suen (慕可舜) was finally deported back to Taiwan after being arrested in Miami on November 9th, 2005. Homeland Security agents found Moo attempting to purchase and export a variety of military parts on China's behalf, including a F-16 aircraft engine for the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, and also an AGM-129 cruise missile. more ›

In a cyber attack recently uncovered by McAfee Security, 72 organizations across the world were targeted for periods of up to five years in an attack being described by some as the largest of its kind. Dubbed "Operation Shady RAT", targets of the attack included multinational corporations, tech companies, defense contractors, the UN, and various governments. Many believe only a "state actor" could be behind the attacks, and while few are naming names outright, fingers, as always, are eager to point at China. Why, you ask? Well, the targeting of multiple Asian countries and ASEAN were the first clues. But the dead giveaway was the hacking into the Olympics committees of multiple countries preceding the Beijing Olympics. Really, China, you should have known better. What other country on earth with that kind of espionage power would direct it at international sports bodies? more ›

"Why, hello there handsome. How's about we discuss cross-strait relations and what it'll take for Chinese Taipei to drop this Republic of China charade and become the 23rd province? Maybe we'll even let you be a Special Administrative, rather than a Special Autonomous (HA!) Region, just like Hong Kong and Macau...Oh! Well, well. I can see the prospect of UN representation and legitimate pinyin is already turning you on, you renegade you! Let's you and I make this One China thing really happen...in bed." more ›

Sir James Dyson, inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, has warned that Chinese students are spying on British universities to steal technological secrets, and have even planted software bugs that continue relaying the information to China long after they have graduated. more ›

Investigations by South Korea into the sex scandal at its Shanghai consulate which saw several diplomats exchanging fistpunches over a Chinese mistress have concluded. more ›

You may remember Glenn Duffie Shriver as the 28-yr old man who spent some time working and studying in Shanghai and later tried to spy on the CIA for China. The key word in that sentence is "tried." Shriver was caught in October of last year and got his comeuppance today. It was announced this morning that he's getting 4 years in prison and another 2 years under supervised release. more ›

The findings from last week's annual security report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission to congress has gotten China pretty angsty: the report states that China has been increasing cyber espionage attacks on the US in order to gain military information, and cites an increase in government involvement in these attacks. The foreign ministry department strongly denied spying, but as concerns over China's secretive military buildup grow we wonder if Beijing is sweating a little too hard from this extra pressure. Then again, we'd like to know how many of those 230 million hack attempts on China's new military website were conducted by American spies? more ›

• Protest at China TV tower [The Straits Times] "Demonstrators gathered outside a fire-gutted tower near the new China Central Television (CCTV) headquarters in Beijing on Tuesday, protesting against what they called forced eviction, state press said. About 30 residents accused the state-run television station of trying to get them to move from the area to make way for the massive and nearly completed construction project, Xinhua news agency said. After about an hour, police persuaded the protesters to put away their banners and leave, the report said. "
• China Backs Off Latest Rio Tinto Claims [WSJ] "Chinese officials distanced the government from allegations on a state-backed Web site that employees of mining giant Rio Tinto PLC had used years of "deceit" to obtain state secrets that cost China's steel industry more than $100 billion — spotlighting the murky and often confusing way China handles such secrecy cases. The allegations, published over the weekend, had quickly gained widespread attention, as they appeared to represent the government ratcheting up pressure over the case of four Rio Tinto employees, including an Australian citizen, who were detained last month by the Shanghai State Security Bureau on vague accusations of using bribery to obtain secrets that harmed China's national interests."
• Another suspect dies in Kunming police custody [GoKunming] "A man being held in detention in Kunming died in a hospital on Saturday with no clear cause of death, according to a Xinhua report. According to a police spokesperson speaking to reporters on Sunday, 43-year-old Wang Shukun (王树坤) had been held in the Guandu District Detention Center since July 19 before being checked into a hospital by police on August 6. After undergoing emergency procedures to save his life, Wang died early Saturday, the spokesperson said."

Three Chinese men have been sent to federal prison in the U.S. for attempting to leak military tech to China. In separate cases, two men - Tah Wei Chao and Zhi Yong Guo - were charged with trying to export thermal-imaging cameras, and the third - William Chi-Wai Tsu - was charged with illegally sending hundreds of military radar systems circuits to Beijing. In the case of exporting circuits, a catalog from Tsu's Beijing company had pictures of military craft and stated a goal of "facilitat[ing] the building of athe national defense of China." He was given a 40-month sentence. Chao was ordered to serve 20 months and Guo was sentenced to five years. Source: Straits Times more ›

The mysterious detainment of four employees from Ozzie mining giant Rio Tinto on Sunday was finally explained today, when the Chinese government confirmed today that Stern Hu, GM of Rio Tinto's Shanghai office, and three of his underlings were alleged to have committed espionage and stolen state secrets. more ›