Gran Bretaña advierte a legisladores que espías chinos buscan contactarlos por LinkedIn – Chicago Tribune
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s intelligence agency has advised the country’s parliamentarians who spy on Chinese are “enabled” in contact with recruiting talent travelers.
The MI5 agency announced that Chinese citizens were “using LinkedIn profiles to make large-scale contacts” on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security, House of Commons incumbent Lindsay Hoyle told lawmakers in a charter.
“Your goal is to gather information and send the foundations for relationships with a large place, using professional networking sites, recruitment agents and consultants who act in your number,” he said.
MI5 issued the alert because the activity was “directed and widespread”, he added.
The alert named two women, Amanda Qiu and Shirly Shen, and said that other similar recruiter profiles were coming forward for espionage.
British intelligence officials have steadily increased their publicity about espionage measures originating from China.
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum told reporters that Chinese actors posed a threat to the UK’s national security “every day”.
McCallum expressed that Beijing’s intrusion included cyberespionage, the bot of technological secrets and “efforts to interfere in the way of corruption in the public life of the United Kingdom.”
In January 2022, the Security Service issued a similar alert to all lawmakers warning that a London-based lawyer was involved in “political interference activities in the United Kingdom” in coordination with the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party, an organization known to exert influence in China over overseas.
The lawyer, Christine Lee, was responsible for facilitating encubated donations to British parties and lawmakers “in the number of foreign citizens”.
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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
