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According to media reports, Min Zin was detained on June 3 at Kunming airport in China’s southwestern Yunnan province, which borders Myanmar. Photo: TNS
Thailand

Beijing confirms arrest of US citizen Min Zin on espionage charges

On the same day China said Myanmar’s president will visit, it said it had arrested the former Myanmese democracy activist.

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Donald Trump

Trump picks Wall Street ‘top cop’ as US spy chief after Pulte backlash

US-China relations

How will the Pentagon’s expanded blacklist of Chinese firms affect Xi’s US visit?

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Donald Trump

Trump urges new spy chief Pulte to gut US intelligence community

The president wants his acting Director of National Intelligence to start firing employees, saying the office has too many staff.

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US President Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in May. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

US citizen and journalist charged with acting as Chinese agent

According to court documents, Thomas Weir Pauken II worked at the ‘direction and control’ of Chinese officials for at least seven years.

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Donald Trump

Trump says he won’t nominate Pulte as permanent US spy chief after backlash

Critics fear the acting director of national intelligence will use his access to top-secret information to target the president’s foes.

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US-China relations

US and ‘Five Eyes’ allies warn of LinkedIn China spying threat

The FBI, MI5 and other agencies say Chinese spies are using such sites to recruit people with access to classified information.

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The warning about recruitment via LinkedIn illustrates continued concern about Chinese spying among the US and its allies despite efforts by the countries to improve ties with Beijing in recent months. Photo illustration: Reuters
China’s Communist Party

China says jailed aerospace engineer was lured into spying for foreign agency

State media says accused received US$88,000 after he ‘fell step by step into the trap laid’ by an unidentified spy organisation.

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United States

US spy chief Tulsi Gabbard quits in latest Trump cabinet exit

She cited her husband’s diagnosis with a ‌rare form ‌of bone cancer as the reason for her departure, but an insider says she was forced out.

Austria

Austrian spy found guilty of giving secrets to Wirecard fugitive

Egisto Ott had been a director in his nation’s secret service and was accused of passing on classified information between 2017 and 2021.

Former Austrian intelligence officer Egisto Ott sits in the main jury courtroom of the Vienna Regional Criminal Court. Photo: dpa
Norway

Norway arrests Chinese national for alleged spying

Court orders suspect be remanded in custody for four weeks, in the second high-profile case this month.

Norwegian intelligence services regularly single out China and Russia as the main risks to Norway. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China relations

Chinese-American found guilty in New York ‘secret police station’ case

Lu ‘Harry’ Jianwang convicted of acting as an unauthorised Chinese agent and obstruction of justice in closely watched trial.

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Japan

Japan’s new spy agency: a shield against China or ‘militarist surveillance’?

Japan has not had a centralised intelligence service since World War II. Sanae Takaichi wants to change that.

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United States

California mayor resigns, will plead guilty to acting as a China agent

Eileen Wang ‘sorry for mistakes’ after being charged with acting in the US as an illegal agent of a foreign government.

Eileen Wang in November 2024. Wang resigned as mayor of Arcadia on Monday. Photo: TNS
United States

Netflix sued in US for ‘spying’ on children, addictive design

Texas lawsuit accuses the streaming giant of improperly collecting users’ data and designing its platform to be addictive.

Netflix’s Stranger Things animated series. The company says it plans to address the Texas lawsuit in court. Photo: Netflix via TNS
US-China relations

US trial hears witness claims of harassment over Chinese ‘secret police station’

Witness testifies he was harassed after holding a protest against the establishment of alleged Fuzhou-controlled facility in New York.

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US-China relations

China’s study of Ukraine, Iran wars could sharpen Taiwan propaganda tactics

Beijing’s study of Iran, Ukraine wars could help hone its ability to wage information warfare against the US during a Taiwan Strait crisis.

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Nordic nations

Norwegian police arrest Chinese citizen on spying allegations

Authorities allege the woman had a suspected role in spying on Norwegian satellite data.

Police prosecutor Thomas Blom. Photo: NTB Scanpix via AP
Hong Kong-UK spying row

Beijing hits out at UK over conviction of 2 men tied to Hong Kong trade office

Foreign ministry accuse UK of abusing the law after Bill Yuen and Peter Wai found guilty of spying on Hong Kong activists in Britain.

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US-China relations

US trial opens over alleged Chinese ‘secret police station’ in New York

Lawyers of Lu Jianwang, who has lived in the US for decades, said the alleged covert police station was just a community centre.

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Russia

Austria expels 3 Russian diplomats over signals spying

Vienna, home to a large diplomatic presence, has long had a reputation as a den of spies.

The Russian embassy in Vienna. Photo: AP
Taiwan

Why Beijing now wants its spies executed in Taiwan back in the spotlight

Mainland China is seeing a surge in interest over ‘invisible martyrs’ such as Wu Shi, a KMT defector who was executed in Taipei in 1950.

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Crime

Italy extradites Chinese national wanted by US for alleged hacking

Xu Zewei was arrested in Milan in 2025 at ⁠the request of US authorities.

The Philippines

How fake job ads in Philippines led to alleged spy recruitment pipeline

The ads, some of which experts say were linked to China, aimed to get unsuspecting Filipino defence specialists to give up key information.

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US-China trade war

US lawmakers slam China’s ‘parasitic’ theft of military and tech secrets

US senators pointed to legal channels, including work visas and university research, as potential pathways for China-linked espionage.

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The United States and China are locked in an intense technological battle for global supremacy. Photo: Shutterstock
Canada

Canadian who was detained by China warns against Carney’s EV deal

Ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig was imprisoned for three years after Canada arrested Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou on a US extradition request.

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Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in 2023. Photo: AP
China jobs

China warns university students about lucrative job offers from foreign spies

Data processing or research jobs promising easy money could be ‘traps’ aimed at illegally collecting sensitive information, ministry says.

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Technology

Opinion | In Asia-Pacific, the real maritime contest is over satellite surveillance

States’ ability to exercise territorial rights is increasingly mediated by their access to satellite data and analytics, but the tech is dominated by a powerful few.

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