The Latest Breaking News from Espionage

Hong Kong resident John Shing Wan Leung was chair of Texas branch of Chinese ‘reunification’ association

Seventy-eight-year-old American passport holder and Hong Kong resident John Shing-wan Leung is sentenced to life imprisonment.

US president says he is ‘working like hell’ to secure release of Wall Street Journal reporter held in Russia on espionage charges

Amendments to the Counter-Espionage Law will arm counter-intelligence personnel with additional tools such as access to data and property information

Authorities can swoop over anything they deem relevant to national security in toughening of law already used against expatriates or their Chinese contacts

After three days of discussions, China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passes the first update to anti-spying laws in almost a decade, under which authorities can gain access to data, information on personal property and ban border crossings.

Chinese authorities have formally charged a prominent journalist with spying, over a year after he was detained while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat, a media rights group said. Dong Yuyu, a senior columnist at the Communist Party newspaper Guangming Daily, was detained in February 2022 along with the diplomat…

The family of a veteran Chinese journalist says he faces espionage charges after being detained while meeting with a Japanese diplomat in a restaurant

Trial of Dong Yuyu, detained after meeting Japanese diplomat, comes as country’s espionage laws widened