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Is Russia getting ready to wage war on Europe | FT #shorts
Financial Times· 2026-02-21 15:05
Is Russia getting ready to wage war on Europe. Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine back in 2022, but now officials in other European [music] countries are blaming Moscow for acts of sabotage. These include parcel bombs, fires, and cyber attacks.European officials and experts say Russia is waging a hybrid war meant to test their resolve. That's a conflict where much of the fighting happens not in battle, but by other means, attacking computer systems, using irregular forces, even [music] ...
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Bloomberg· 2026-02-20 16:22
In Episode 3 of The Sixth Bureau, a series from The Big Take, we follow a Chinese spy to the Paris Air Show, and watch how, despite his meddling bosses, he develops a source. https://t.co/pejf6fThLw ...
Ji Chaoqun Targeted Chinese Nationals Working as Engineers in US
Bloomberg Originals· 2026-02-19 23:00
In August 2015 is when we first see a very specific tasking from the MSS and specifically Shu Yan Jun. Shu reaches out to Gi and asks him to gather information about certain scientists in the US. >> What Shu asked him to do was to log on to three different background check websites and download background checks on nine scientists.These are commercial websites. You enter a credit card number, you type in a name. This is all kind of public commercially available data and these were mostly Chinese nationals l ...
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Bloomberg· 2026-02-19 15:43
In 2015, Ji Chaoqun was directed by Xu Yanjun, a senior official in China’s Ministry of State Security, to collect biographical information on individuals who could be recruited as Chinese spies.Targets included Chinese nationals working as engineers and scientists in the United States.Watch the full story https://t.co/WoR3EjUwaS ...
Ji Chaoqun: How China's 'Perfect' Spy Got Caught
Bloomberg Originals· 2026-02-18 15:08
I would think so. >> This story is about aviation secrets, in particular, jet engine trade secrets. These are technologies that China wants very badly.It's in the paper every day what China is alleged to be stealing in mass from the United States. >> The playbook is simple. Rob, replicate, and replace.We cannot tolerate a nation that steals the fruits of our brain power. >> G was almost like a packrat when it came to electronic information. >> You have text messages.You have videos, you have photos, you hav ...
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Bloomberg· 2026-02-17 19:34
In 2023, a former Chicago-based graduate student in electrical engineering was sentenced to eight years in prison for spying on behalf of the Chinese government.Ji Chaoqun, a Chinese national, was convicted of acting as an agent for China’s Ministry of State Security and making false statements to the US Army.Watch the full story https://t.co/WoR3EjUwaS ...
How China's 'Perfect' Spy Got Caught | Exclusive Preview
Bloomberg Originals· 2026-02-17 09:30
Uh, you got >> No, I'm I'm I'm just going. >> Yes. >> He was kind of awkward. He was very goofy.He does not read like a Chinese spy. >> I at least had in my head this idea of a spy of James Bond, somebody jumping out of airplanes. And that is Nachi.$100,000. Is that monthly. >> Uh they they pay me uh every six months.>> This story is about aviation secrets in particular jet engine trade secrets. These are technologies that China wants very badly. >> It's in the paper every day what China has alleged to be s ...
Superpowers, Secrets and the Chinese Spy Who Got Caught
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-13 13:02
This is a story of the inner workings of one of the world's most mysterious and powerful spy agencies >> and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its vault of secrets. >> For the last four years, we've been following this guy, Shu Yan Jun. >> He was an intelligence officer in China's Ministry of State Security.>> Our reporting uncovered years worth of emails, texts, documents, secret recordings, even his personal diary entries. It showed how he conducted sophisticated operations against the world's le ...
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The Central Intelligence Agency released a new video on Thursday seeking to capitalize on upheaval at the top of China’s armed forces to recruit potential spies https://t.co/aTq1uv0kfo ...
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Bloomberg· 2026-02-13 05:04
Looking to reduce China’s reliance on Western aviation technologies, Beijing had spies spend years accumulating knowledge about the industry’s secrets https://t.co/gP2HJsPblw ...