China says 3 foreign spy pieces are thwarted, including the “honey trap” that relied on “the beauty of the foreign factor”

Beijing – China said on Thursday that it had broken three spy conspiracies, including those in which a government employee of the “tempting beauty” was seduced by a foreign customer, and urged government workers to stay against external threats.

Beijing has rushed spying in recent years as relations with the United States and other Western countries have aggravated. MSS said on Thursday that foreign spies “were increasingly active in infiltration and stealing secrets from China” and were targeting public officials.

MSS said: “Individual officials have caused the harmful effects of secrets due to a lack of belief, and a weak sense of discipline and awareness diluted with rules … hurting national security and interests.”

He described a case in which a government employee called the clips nicknamed the series in “Designer carefully Honey trap“While traveling abroad to work.

“Unable to resist the tempting beauty of the foreign intelligence agent,” I was blackmailed with “intimate photos” and forced to hand over official documents once returned to China.

He was sentenced to five years in prison for spying, according to the statement.

Another case included a municipal worker identified as Hou, who said MSS photographed secret documents and sold them to foreign spy agencies to restore lost savings from gambling addiction. The ministry said that Hau was later seized “a criminal responsibility”, without specifying his punishment.

The ministry also detailed the third case in which a high young official lost his job after participating in secret information with one of the relatives he photographed and sent to external spy agencies.

“The leaks are often hidden in the small details of our practical life,” the ministry said. “If our ideals and beliefs are not strong … it may eventually decrease to the criminal abyss designed by foreign spy agencies.”

The China Spy Agency has not named the countries that they claim were behind the conspiracies. In response to a question about the countries that participated, during a regular briefing on Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said she was “not aware of this issue.”

Beijing and Washington have long traded spying accusations, which were punishable by death in China.

Last month, Beijing accused the Central Intelligence Agency of an “ridiculous” attempt to employ Chinese citizens through “amateur” videos published on social media. In April, Chinese security officials said they were involved in three American “secret agents” in electronic attacks during Asian winter games in February in the northeastern city of Harbin.

The Ministry of State Security also said in March that it had been sentenced to a former engineer to leak the state secrets with foreign authority.

US officials say that China uses the same tactics to target Americans and other citizens – and its citizens abroad.

in May, 60 minutes was reported The MSS has grown to become the largest more active spy agency in the world, and that its highest goal is not foreign powers, but the people of China, including those who live in the United States

“They can learn something that something does not want to learn. Thus, they are seen as dangerous – not a threat, but as a danger,” said 60 minutes with former US diplomat Jim Lewis, who has something more than 30 years of direct experience with intelligence agencies in China, that Chinese citizens on foreign lands “can learn something that nothing wants to learn. Thus, they are seen as dangerous – not a threat, but as a danger.”

But Lewis said that MSS also targets foreign citizens with the same tactics, such as other spying agencies, which are sex, money and revenge. He said that honey trap or “Honeypot” strategy is common, but this cash incentive was also a reliable option to employ foreign agents.