China’s top anti-espionage agency said it had solved several infiltration and espionage cases involving Japanese spy agencies in recent years and vowed to step up counter-intelligence work amid serious diplomatic tensions between Beijing and Tokyo.
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On Wednesday, the Ministry of State Security said in a social media article that it had “cracked a series of espionage cases involving Japanese intelligence agencies infiltrating and stealing secrets from China”.
It added that this had “effectively safeguarded the security of the nation’s core secrets”.
The ministry vowed that China’s state security officers would “resolutely crush any insidious plots to split the nation on the secret service front” and “firmly oppose any despicable acts by foreign countries trying to disrupt regional peace and stability”.
Wednesday’s article did not detail any specific cases of espionage, and such cases have rarely been disclosed to the public.
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In May, China confirmed a Japanese citizen had been sentenced for espionage. Japanese media previously reported that a Japanese man in his fifties had been detained in Shanghai in December 2021 and was prosecuted in August 2023.