John Shing News Today

Intelligence agencies in Washington and Beijing are intentionally more visible than ever, both for domestic and foreign audiences.

The official Chinese media give wide coverage to the case of Shing-Wan Leung, a 78-year-old man on trial on charges of being in the pay of the United States. In the UK, two people were identified as spying for Beijing, one of them from inside the London Parliament. For Beijing, national security is that of the party and Xi Jinping.

Beijing claims an American citizen jailed for life in China earlier this year is a decorated spy who had worked for US intelligence for more than three decades, as it ramps up a campaign warning citizens to guard against foreign espionage.

Beijing claims an American citizen jailed for life in China earlier this year is a decorated spy who had worked for US intelligence for more than three decades, as it ramps up a campaign warning citizens to guard against foreign espionage.

Police have confirmed the arrest of a man from North Efate on suspicion of publicly threatening the newly elected Prime Minister (PM), Sato Kilman on Facebook.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jinchao "Patrick" Wei and Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, suspected of funneling classified national defense information to Chinese intelligence officers, face grave penalties, intensifying already fraught US-China relations.

"US citizens traveling to or residing in China may be detained without access to consular services."

Janet Yellen, the treasury secretary, concluded her visit to China on Sunday after meeting Vice Premier He Lifeng and bowing effusively several times.

Risk of wrongful detention

The advisory follows the recent sentencing of a 78-year-old US citizen to life imprisonment on spying charges in May