Jun Wei Yeo, a 39-year-old academic who also goes by the name Dickson Yeo, pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Friday to acting as an illegal agent of Chinese intelligence. He will be sentenced in October and faces up to 10 years in prison.
“One fool like this can get all Singaporeans suspected,” academic and former Singaporean diplomat Bilahari Kausikan said in a Facebook post in response to the spy’s case. When he moved to the United States his handlers gave him a bank card and told him to communicate with them using multiple phones to avoid detection.
Yeo’s former PhD supervisor at Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy was an ethnic Chinese U.S. 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”.
At loggerheads with the United States over trade and other issues, Beijing denied knowledge of Yeo’s case on Monday and accused the United States of using espionage claims to smear China. “People might be more suspicious of Singaporeans if there is a perception that Singapore is compromised,” said Chong Ja Ian, a visiting Singapore scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in Cambridge, Mass.. Chong said the incident may also make it more difficult for Singapore to walk the diplomatic tightrope between Washington and Beijing.
geddiejdk RDchatters ... of course Reuters' 'journalists' won't ask themselves why this november arrest of a lowly nobody glaning info over linkedin is making our Western 'press' headlines. We won't see any 'special investigation' over the last 3 years of US mass propaganda pushed down our throats.
geddiejdk RDchatters 'has reawakened fears (...) raised in Western security think-tanks' [sic] Agitating the US fearmongering garbage is Reuters' 'raison d'etre' and copy/pasting the propaganda from US state dept and arm lobby funded 'ASPI' is just the icing on that cake. Grotesque.
geddiejdk RDchatters 日本早没价值了，早不用日本了。
geddiejdk RDchatters Singapore 🇸🇬 is 70% Chinese origin so allegation might be right but honestly it needs to be investigated with evidence not mere say
geddiejdk RDchatters Any evidence to prove that the Singapore spy was really working for China? Additionally...Each country has its own spies. What do you think the duties of FBI?
geddiejdk RDchatters Take down the CCP
geddiejdk RDchatters Wake up! CCP is not trust worthy!
iloveHK3333 geddiejdk RDchatters Every Chinese students or ppl are spy. They love to monitor other Chinese n report to the authorities. Basically they are destroying the universal value over the world.
geddiejdk RDchatters Good news: Singapore found Chinese spy. Bad news: There are still thousands of spies in the world.
geddiejdk RDchatters It's truly happening right now Thus,it's time for us to BoycottMadeInChina
geddiejdk RDchatters The new strategy of espionage of CCP implies that those spies could be in private corporations, schools, global organisations and the suchlike. Also they might not be Chinese. China’s spies are everywhere before we perceive their existence. CCP_is_terrorist
geddiejdk RDchatters I believe it’s not the first time the CCP gov does like this...
geddiejdk RDchatters CCPChina sends spies to your country, distort your political environment, threaten your security and freedom, while blocking their own brutal regime from democratic appeals. Decoupling is the key!
geddiejdk RDchatters CCP China is well-known for flagrantly not respecting intellectual property.
I’m afraid that’s not the only case and that’s not the first time.
geddiejdk RDchatters a lot of Chinese became Singapore Citizen...
geddiejdk RDchatters Lol, Last year Australia hyped for several weeks about a ‘spy’ working for China. In fact who was turn out to be a swindler escaped from China. Shameless fake news.
geddiejdk RDchatters NSA Espionage exposed by Snowdon also needs to be stopped? Or is it acceptable
Lol, Last year Australia hyped for several weeks about a ‘spy’ working for China. In fact who was turn out to be a swindler escaped from China. Shameless fake news.
Singapore is not in expected lines. These things happen when they loose sovereignty.
It's either Western Govs tightening the immigration or the Singaporean Gov do something to prevent this from happening again, otherwise it's hard to gain Western governments' trust. Those spies really damages Singapore's reputation and more measures shd be done to catch them.
It’s a must to spy on the occupied lands aka uSa ,to keep an eye on what and how the uSa Terrorist military regime is plotting and planning to commit mass genocide,rape, infanticide,torture & destruction of our peaceful beautiful planet . Kick em out from their 1000 bases.
Lol, Last year Australia hyped for several weeks about a ‘spy’ working for China. In fact who was turn out to be a swindler escaped from China.
SMH
geddiejdk RDchatters What am I looking at in this picture? Is that a giant boat sitting on top of 3 twisting skyscrapers?
geddiejdk RDchatters On the other hand, their cyberpunk Stonehenge is coming along nicely.
geddiejdk RDchatters Washinton behind all this!
geddiejdk RDchatters Businesses are shifting from HK to Singapore and this would be bothering China. Deep assets would make Singapore's banking business vulnerable.
geddiejdk RDchatters You don’t think China spies on every country in the world?
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