[Paul Ross]

Japanese Aegis destroyer.

The usual tactic of the Chinese is, from a couple senior positions, try and so erode and compromise the security precautions around sensitive or classified information, that their agents will have "plausible deniability" that there was nothing actually "sensitive" or "classified" here...move along, move along.

Their lawyers then have a field day defending them from the prosecutor's charges. Hopefully for our sakes, the Japanese appear to have caught wise to this, and are moving up the food chain to try and catch the more dangerous moles.

[Zhang Fei]

The Chinese used to have this hook of international communist solidarity to recruit foreign spies. These days, they’re about as communist as Mussolini. So they’re using yellow solidarity among Asian countries. The problem with doing that in Japan is that you get these periodic anti-Japanese riots in China by people who are bused in by the Chinese government.

[Sax]

the officer's Chinese wife was arrested in late January for a visa violation.

Because they knew an espionage charge would immediately sound alarms and threaten their plans to buy F-22 Raptors. Which apparently it did since those plans have been deep sixed.

[Spruce]

I KNEW the ChiComs were involved by just reading the headline.

[Tainan]

Approx 1 month ago I was flying from Taiwan to the USA via Osaka and picked up an English language Japanese newspaper in Osaka. This story was on page 1. All the details listed here - Aegis doc’s, Chinese wife, etc. This guy and his wife had been under surveil for quite a while. I was discussing it with a person also on the flight and it was agreed that this had much ramifications and was only part of an ongoing larger Chinese effort.

Frankly, its ‘bidness as usual’ in this arena.