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The Honeytrap Is the Least Interesting Thing in the Fang Fang File
Thirty espionage and influence cases across eight countries. Sex is the actual mechanism in two of them. The Fang Fang file is not the honeytrap story…
Aug 19 • Aric Chen
Microsoft Shut 15 China Offices in Five Years. One Customer Is Why It Hasn't Left.
ByteDance is on track to spend over a billion dollars a year renting OpenAI models on Azure — and Beijing is funding the replacement.
Aug 17 • Aric Chen
Beijing Ran Nine Secret Police Stations on French Soil. Paris Just Shut Them Down.
A botched airport kidnapping cracked open the Chinese Communist Party's shadow policing network in France. The fallout is still spreading across Europe.
Jun 24 • Aric Chen
Typhon Launchers Stay in Japan: Tomahawks Now Target China from Kyushu
Last September, the U.S.
Jun 22 • Aric Chen
American "Journalist" Caught Red-Handed: Paid CCP Spy Fed U.S. Election Intel Straight to Xi Jinping
In a federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia on Thursday, a U.S.
Jun 5 • Aric Chen
She Spent Days Baking Desserts for a Wedding . The Driver of the Bus That Killed Her Family Couldn’t Read English Road Signs.
An immigrant family from Moldova, on their way to celebrate. A 48-year-old Chinese driver from Staten Island who federal officials say had no business…
May 31 • Aric Chen
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