A joint investigation by the "Financial Times", "Der Spiegel", and "Le Monde" reveals that Belgian Vlaams Belang politician Frank Creyelman accepted bribes from the Chinese Ministry of State Security for three years in order to influence discussions within the European Union. Creyelman was subsequently expelled from the party. 2023-12-15
The Afghanistan Times welcomed China’s move to condemn and also react strongly over unlawful killings in Afghanistan. 2020-11-30
China is threatening to impose bans on up to $6 billion of key Australian exports such as wine, copper, barley, coal, sugar, timber and lobster beginning Friday, straining trade relations between the two countries. 2020-11-3
In its annual report, Germany's domestic intelligence agency BfV warns consumers that personal data they provide to Chinese payment companies or other tech firms, such as Tencent, Alibaba and others, could end up in the hands of China's government. 2020-07-9
Russian investigators accuse Valery Mitko, President of Arctic Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and one of the country's leading Arctic researchers, "of treason" after alleging that he gave a document containing state secrets to Chinese intelligence in early 2018 at China's Dalian Maritime University, where he was a visiting professor. Mitko and his lawyer Ivan Pavlov deny any wrongdoing and say that all the materials were openly available. 2020-06-16
ASIO is investigating an alleged plot by the Communist Party of China to install an agent into the Parliament of Australia. 2019-11-26
Australian helicopters, from the Royal Australian Navy flagship HMAS "Canberra", are forced to make an emergency landing after being targeted by lasers from fishing boats in the South China Sea. The "Canberra" was being trailed by a Chinese warship. 2019-05-28
Taiwan passes a law under which spies from China would be subject to life imprisonment or even the death penalty. 2019-05-8
Reports emerge of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's discovery of classified Australian documents, related to Chinese intelligence activity abroad, in the Canberra home of a woman allegedly acting on behalf of the Communist Party of China. 2017-06-5