{"id":1997920,"date":"2023-08-11T14:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T18:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-detains-man-accuses-him-of-being-cia-asset\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T14:16:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T18:16:56","slug":"china-detains-man-accuses-him-of-being-cia-asset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-detains-man-accuses-him-of-being-cia-asset\/","title":{"rendered":"China detains man, alleges CIA affiliation."},"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\">12<\/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%2Fchina-detains-man-accuses-him-of-being-cia-asset%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=1997920&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>China Detains Man, Accuses\u200c Him of Being CIA\u2063 Asset<\/h2>\n<p>China\u2064 has detained a worker from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-detains-man-accuses-him-of-being-cia-asset\/\" title=\"China detains man, alleges CIA affiliation.\">military\u200b industrial group<\/a> on suspicion of spying for the CIA, \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-snooped-on-americans-data-at-record-pace-last-year\/\" title=\"FBI Snooped On Americans\u2019 Data At Record Pace Last Year\">national security authorities<\/a> said Friday, adding to the list of public accusations of \u2062espionage between Beijing and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062Ministry of\u2063 State Security, China\u2019s civilian \u2063spy agency, said \u200cin a \u2064statement that a \u200dmilitary industrial worker surnamed Zeng had been providing \u2063military secrets to \u200dthe CIA for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lincoln-project-shares-personnel-address-with-liberal-election-groups\/\" title=\"The Lincoln Project Shares Personnel, Address With Liberal Election Groups\">large sums<\/a>\u200b of money.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200c52-year-old suspect had been sent to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-nyc-publishing-executive-dies-horrific-boating-accident-off-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italy<\/a> to study by his employer. \u200cThere, he met \u201can \u200cofficial with \u2064the U.S. embassy,\u201d who later turned out to be a CIA agent, \u200bthe ministry claimed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Indoctrinated with\u2062 Western Values<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cZeng \u2063gradually developed a\u2063 psychological dependence\u200b on (the U.S. official), who took the \u2063opportunity to indoctrinate him with Western values,\u201d said the statement, posted on the ministry\u2019s \u2062WeChat page.<\/p>\n<p>It added\u2064 that the U.S. official\u2064 promised the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-energy-secretary-quietly-consulted-china-days-heavily-criticized-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese<\/a> suspect large amounts of money and \u2063to help his family emigrate to the \u200bUnited\u200d States in exchange for sensitive information about China\u2019s military, which \u200bthe worker had\u2064 access to through his job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving finished overseas study, Zeng returned to China and continued to have multiple secret\u2062 meetings with the CIA agents\u200c and provided a\u2064 great amount of key\u2064 intelligence and collected funds for spying,\u201d the ministry \u2063said.<\/p>\n<p>It \u2062added that the suspect had been detained and \u2062the case was being investigated further.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062announcement is \u200cthe latest \u200cin a string of public accusations of espionage between Washington and Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the \u2062U.S. \u200barrested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/us-navy-sailors-arrested-accused-heinous-treachery-china-issues-espionage-order-citizens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two U.S. Navy\u2064 sailors<\/a> \u2062 on accusations \u2063of \u200dproviding military secrets to China.<\/p>\n<p>Relations \u200bbetween China and the United States plunged to their lowest level in\u2064 years after the U.S. earlier this year shot down a suspected \u2064Chinese\u2064 spy balloon that had flown over U.S. territory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The \u2063Western Journal has reviewed this Associated \u200cPress story and may have altered \u2064it prior \u200dto publication to ensure \u2064that \u2063it meets our \u200deditorial \u200cstandards.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dpost <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-china-detains-military-group-worker-suspected-spying-cia\/\">China Detains Man, Accuses Him of Being CIA \u200cAsset<\/a> appeared first\u200c on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western\u2064 Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>has been detained on suspicion of spying for the CIA. This incident adds to the growing list of espionage allegations between China and the US. The Ministry of State Security, China&#8217;s civilian spy agency, announced the detainment of Zeng, a worker from a military industrial group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1997921,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/1997920","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\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}