{"id":1990767,"date":"2023-08-04T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-navy-sailors-arrested-for-selling-secrets-to-chinese-spy\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:52:19","slug":"two-navy-sailors-arrested-for-selling-secrets-to-chinese-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-navy-sailors-arrested-for-selling-secrets-to-chinese-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Navy Sailors caught selling secrets to Chinese spy, arrested."},"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%2Ftwo-navy-sailors-arrested-for-selling-secrets-to-chinese-spy%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=1990767&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--><div>\n<h2>U.S. Navy Sailors\u2064 Arrested for Sharing \u200dSensitive Information with China<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Two U.S. Navy sailors have\u2063 been arrested on charges of handing over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-releases-statement-after-ag-garland-comments-says-hes-cooperating-fully-with-probe\/\" title=\"Trump Releases Statement After AG Garland Comments, Says He's Cooperating Fully With Probe\">sensitive national security material<\/a> to China, U.S. officials said\u2062 Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao,\u200b 26, was charged with conspiracy and bribe-taking in connection with\u2062 taking nearly\u2064 $15,000 in exchange for photographs and videos\u200c of sensitive U.S. military information, \u2063the \u2062officials said. U.S. Navy sailor, Jinchao Wei, whose age was not\u200c disclosed, was charged with\u2064 conspiring to\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navy-sailors-indicted-for-sending-sensitive-u-s-military-data-to-chinese-government\/\" title=\"Navy sailors charged for sharing 'sensitive' US military info with China.\">send national defense information<\/a>\u2063 to China in \u2063exchange \u200bfor thousands \u2063of \u2062dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Attorney General Matt\u2064 Olsen \u2063told reporters in San Diego that, because of the men&#8217;s actions, &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-navy-sailors-arrested-on-espionage-charges\/\" title=\"U.S. Navy sailors detained for espionage.\">sensitive military info ended<\/a> up in the hands of the People\u2019s Republic of \u2062China.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zhao is accused\u200b of sending\u200d his Chinese handler \u200cplans for U.S. military exercises in the Indo-Pacific \u200bregion, \u2063electrical diagrams, and\u200c blueprints for a radar system \u200con a \u2063U.S. military\u200d base in Okinawa, Japan,\u2062 and \u200csecurity\u200b details for U.S.\u200d naval facilities in Ventura County and San Clemente Island outside Los\u2064 Angeles, \u2064according to U.S. officials.<\/p>\n<p>Wei is accused\u200d of disclosing information about the\u200b USS <em>Essex<\/em>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-sending-more-navy-ships-and-marines-to-middle-east-over-iranian-threats\/\" title=\"US deploys additional Navy ships and Marines to Middle East amidst Iranian threats.\">amphibious assault\u2063 ship<\/a>\u2062 where \u2062he served, as well\u2064 as\u200c other American warships, including dozens of technical manuals laying out\u200d the <em>Essex<\/em>&#8216;s\u200c weapons, power structure, and\u2062 operations.<\/p>\n<p>Contact details for Wei and Zhao \u2062could not immediately be located.<\/p>\n<p>U.S.\u2064 officials at the press \u2064conference condemned China&#8217;s\u200b espionage campaign Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no bigger, multigenerational threat to the United\u2062 States&#8221; than China, said FBI special agent Stacey Moy. Beijing &#8220;will stop at\u200d nothing to attack the \u2064United States in its strategic plan\u2062 to \u2062become the\u2062 world&#8217;s sole superpower.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately return a message\u200b seeking comment on the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>U.S.-China relations have\u2062 been\u200b tense \u2064for years over a range of national security \u200cand \u2062trade issues. The United States \u200chas\u200d accused China of espionage and cyberattacks,\u2063 a charge that Beijing has\u2063 rejected. China\u200d has also\u2063 declared that \u2062it is under threat from spies.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reporting by Kanishka\u200b Singh and Raphael\u200c Satter in\u2063 Washington.\u2064 Editing by Mark Porter, \u200cAlison Williams, \u2064Jonathan Oatis, and Cynthia \u200cOsterman.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two U.S. Navy sailors, including Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, have been apprehended for allegedly providing China with classified national security data. 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