February 10, 2010

China uses 'lavish hospitality' and sexual entrapment as espionage ploys

Chinese spies in Britain have broken into businesses, installed electronic eavesdropping devices and used sexual entrapment to blackmail executives into providing trade secrets, according to Britain’s MI-5 domestic intelligence service. A report by MI-5 said that spies from China’s People's Liberation Army and Ministry of Public Security seek to recruit businessmen at trade fairs and exhibitions with the offer of “gifts” and “lavish hospitality.” Objectives include “long-term relationships” with employees of key British companies. (FULL STORY)
A guest room at the Beijing HWA (Apartment) Hotel.
One-party dictatorship still doesn't work, even for enlightened capitalist communists

The just-announced decision by the Chinese government to set up an inter-departmental National Food Safety Commission and a National Energy Commission belies Beijing's claims that the “China model” makes for administrative efficiency. The Chinese bureaucracy is a web of vested interests where corruption, chronic procrastination and turf-fighting have engendered horrific administrative malaise.  (FULL STORY)
The National Food Safety Commission came into being following a new spate of food poisoning caused by melamine-tainted milk powder.
DNI: Sensitive info 'stolen daily' as cyber threat to U.S. intensifies
China attacks Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review as 'irresponsible'
   
China wants military base in Pakistan to check U.S., India
Pyongyang uncharacteristically yields to demand to reopen markets
Secret communication channel between two Koreas involves intermediaries
China, S. Korea firms secretly shipped embargoed goods to N. Korea

  INSIDE  NORTH  KOREA     
Reports: North Koreans taking to the streets, dropping terms of endearment for Kim

Public discontent is mounting in North Korea following the chaotic currency revaluation and crackdowns on private markets, which sparked tremendous inflation and worsening shortages of food and daily necessities, media reports and sources say.
Taiwan investigates 2 military intelligence officers thought to be spying for China
Chinese national arrested at Israeli military base
Chinese media defend missile defenses, blame U.S. 'space war drills'

 
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