It could be something as ordinary as a stray USB stick left in a carpark, or an innocent chat with an attractive new social media “friend,” but these seemingly benign interactions are actual tactics used by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spies.
That’s the warning from an intelligence expert who says for every 10 people employed by Western security agencies, the CCP intelligence network has about 1,000—likely because it uses members of the Chinese diaspora abroad.






