Tuesday, 28 Jul 2020 06:00 PM MYT
Singapore’s home ministry said in a brief statement on Sunday that it had been aware of Yeo’s case since his arrest by US authorities in November, and he is receiving consular assistance. Tasked with finding people with non-public information about politics, economics, and diplomacy, Yeo first focused on Southeast Asia, before switching to the United States.
Yeo’s former PhD supervisor at Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy was an ethnic Chinese US citizen, who was accused by Singaporean authorities in 2017 of being an agent of foreign influence for an undisclosed country.Now working in Beijing, Huang said he was shocked and glad Yeo had been caught, noting that he had an “obvious sense of insecurity and hunger for being somebody”.
Deteriorating Sino-USr elations hit a new low during the past week, as the United States closed China’s consulate in Houston and China retaliated by seizing the US consulate in Chengdu.
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