Chinese telecom giant Huawei’s footprint in the development of the next generation of mobile technology in Canada has been a sore point for the county’s relations with its intelligence and security partners.

Recently, there has been some buzz in the media about President Donald Trump’s alleged characterization of virtually every Chinese student studying in the United States as being a spy, despite the fact that he didn’t identify the country by name. While the mainstream media might find his words far-fetched, Trump wasn’t totally off the mark. […]

WASHINGTON—The United States’ top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and commercial secrets, and that the company should shut them down. William Evanina, the U.S. counter-intelligence chief, told Reuters in an interview that intelligence and law enforcement officials have informed LinkedIn, […]

A recent U.S. government report shows that many key industrial sectors in the United States continue to be the target of foreign espionage—most notably from China. On July 26, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) released a report titled “2018 Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace,” which identified three countries—Russia, Iran, and China—as the most […]

In Taiwan, another businessman has been placed under investigation for conducting espionage for China—the second incident in a little over a month. Lin Wei-lin, 39, a Taiwanese businessman who, after retiring from serving in Taiwan’s Marine Corps, started a mechatronics business in 2000 in Suzhou City, located in Jiangsu Province on the eastern coast of […]

Once a senior intelligence officer and manager with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Michel Juneau-Katsuya doesn’t mince words when it comes to China’s Confucius Institutes. “They’re spies, period,” Juneau-Katsuya said. “There are many countries and many intelligence services that concur with our conclusions that, unfortunately, this was a Trojan horse.” Juneau-Katsuya, who worked at CSIS […]

The Chinese spy ship that sailed international waters off the coast of Alaska during a recent missile defense test was a class that had never been seen before in Northern Command’s area-of-responsibility, a spokesperson said Friday. It was the first Chinese military vessel in the area since 2015 when a Chinese “surface action group” transited […]