British Students Warned of China’s Spy Grooming Tactics

An intelligence expert said career-focused students and researchers can be targeted by agents even if they don’t think they have valuable information.

In this file image, a students arrives for their graduation ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London, England, on Oct. 13, 2015. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Unsuspecting British students and researchers are targeted by Chinese spies and can end up “batting for the other side” without knowing, an intelligence and security expert warned.

Anthony Glees, emeritus professor at the University of Buckingham, said agents of the communist regime have their eyes peeled for promising students who will likely “end up in a decision-making capacity, and in a position where they will have secret intelligence to pass on to China.”