China uses internet tools to recruit high-valued foreign nationals for spying

With China’s move to recruit foreign nationals for spying taking new shape and contours, Western countries like Canada, the US and Germany are finding themselves at their wits end as Chinese intelligence officials are increasingly using internet tools to lure away their high-valued citizens to get access to “confidential and privileged” information.

Reminding the world as how China is increasingly getting into the skin of advanced countries by interfering with their domestic affairs, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) recently wrote several social media posts, highlighting Chinese intelligence officials’ involvement in recruitment of “high-value” Canadians to spy for Beijing. “Canadians beware!

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