2023-05-10 14:24:00
Recently, the United States and China are competing to find spies.
The atmosphere is reviving the symptoms of the Cold War era, when individual freedom was infringed upon by the security logic of the massive state power.
This is Correspondent Kang Jeong-kyu in Beijing.
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Chinese National Security Agency agents in uniform storm into an American advisory firm in Suzhou.
It was emphasized that fair law enforcement was carried out through an open search and seizure accompanied by a broadcast camera.
The company is accused of digging up Chinese industrial secrets and selling them to foreign countries.
[상하이 국가안전국 간부 : 전문가들은 컨설팅 회사가 제시한 많은 보수에 매료돼 국가 기밀까지 누설하면서 범죄의 길로 들어섰습니다.]
In March and April, American advisory firms in Beijing and Shanghai went through something similar.
A total of 17 Japanese people have been arrested by Chinese public security since the counterintelligence law went into effect in 2014.
In February of last year, it was belatedly known that a Chinese journalist was arrested during a meal with a Japanese diplomat.
On the 26th of last month, China passed an amendment to the Counterespionage Act, which greatly expanded the scope of espionage activities.
[중국 관영 CCTV 보도 (지난달 26일) : ‘중화인민공화국반간첩법’은 2023년 7월 1부터 시행됩니다.]
It was the US side that ignited the spy hunting competition first.
In 2020, then-President Trump restricted the entry of Chinese students to prevent the theft of industrial technology.
It also canceled the visa issuance of more than a thousand Chinese nationals suspected of being spies.
Recently, two Chinese secret police officers and 34 ‘comment unit’ agents in New York City were put on trial in droves.
The controversy over the information leakage of the Chinese SNS ‘TikTok’ led to a hearing in the US Congress.
[추쇼우즈 / 틱톡 CEO (지난 3월) : 중국 정부가 데이터에 접근한다는 증거를 보지 못했고 중국 정부가 요청한 적도 없습니다.]
China and Canada, where the controversy over the detention of the daughter of Huawei’s founder in 2018 remains, have recently met diplomats on charges of espionage.
Due to the Cold War-style security logic of the massive state power, the space for corporate economic activities as well as individual freedom to enjoy daily life is becoming increasingly narrow.
This is YTN Jungkyu Kang from Beijing.
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