{"id":1990434,"date":"2023-08-03T23:51:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T03:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-us-navy-sailors-arrested-accused-of-spying-for-china\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T23:53:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T03:53:28","slug":"2-us-navy-sailors-arrested-accused-of-spying-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-us-navy-sailors-arrested-accused-of-spying-for-china\/","title":{"rendered":"2 US Navy Sailors Arrested, Accused of Spying for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2-us-navy-sailors-arrested-accused-of-spying-for-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1990434&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Arrest of Navy Sailors for Espionage<\/h2>\n<p>Federal prosecutors made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukrainian-intel-claims-another-high-ranking-russian-general-killed\/\" title=\"Ukrainian Intel Claims Another High-Ranking Russian General Killed\">significant breakthrough<\/a> on August 3rd, apprehending two Navy sailors involved in a\u200c shocking case of espionage. These individuals \u200dstand accused of jeopardizing U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-got-it-newsmax-reporter-emerald-robinson-national-security-source-confirms-a-piece-of-hardware-has-been-secured-in-germany\/\" title=\"We Got It! - Newsmax Reporter Emerald Robinson: National Security Source Confirms \"A Piece of Hardware Has Been Secured\" in Germany\">national security<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-us-navy-sailors-arrested-accused-of-spying-for-china\/\" title=\"2 US Navy Sailors Arrested, Accused of Spying for China\">sharing classified military information<\/a> with China.<\/p>\n<h3>The Accused: \u2064Wei Jinchao<\/h3>\n<p>One of\u200d the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-u-s-navy-sailors-arrested-on-espionage-charges-involving-alleged-ties-to-china\/\" title=\"Two U.S. Navy Sailors detained for espionage, suspected of having connections with China.\">arrested sailors<\/a>, \u2064Wei Jinchao, who also goes by the name Patrick \u2063Wei, has been indicted for \u200dhis alleged involvement in a conspiracy \u2063to transmit \u200cnational defense information \u2064to a Chinese intelligence officer. Wei was taken into custody on August 2nd, right after arriving at his workplace, Naval Base San Diego, which serves as the homeport of the Pacific Fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Navy sailors were arrested by federal prosecutors on Aug. 3 for allegedly sharing classified military data with China, posing a threat to U.S. national security. Wei Jinchao, also known as Patrick Wei, was indicted for conspiring to transmit national defense information to a Chinese intelligence officer. He was apprehended on Aug. 2 when he arrived for duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":1990435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1990435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}