Posted on 04/22/2016 12:48:35 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Chinese Warned Dating Spies Is Risk Women Take With Foreign Men In New "Dangerous Love" Comic
The Chinese warned dating spies is a risk women take with handsome foreign men. A new “dangerous love” poster was shared across government bulletin boards last Friday in honor of China’s National Security Education Day. Targeting mainly women government workers, the poster warned dating spies could be a real possibility through storytelling in a comic book-style format, according to ABC News on Tuesday.
Making its way around the internet, the “dangerous love” poster is being called an odd way for the Chinese government to warn women of possible espionage practices by foreign men. Readers are told about a handsome foreign man with red hair named David who starts dating a young, attractive woman known as Little Li who just so happens to be a member of the Chinese civil service.
The two fictitiously meet at a dinner party and start dating. David gains the love of Little Li through flowers and romantic dinners and lies about his true identity, saying he’s a scholar visiting China when he’s really a foreign spy. Little Li and David are both ultimately arrested after Little Li gives David secret government files from her job as a propaganda officer.
Chinese warned that dating spies pose a risk to government secrecy. Aiding a foreign spy in China is a crime that could be punishable by death. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that China recently sentenced a former computer technician to death for selling thousands of classified government documents to several foreign spies.
“The man, Huang Yu, 41, worked for a research institute specializing in cryptography in Chengdu, a city in southwestern China. He sold the materials, which included military codes, from 2002 to 2011, making about $700,000.”
The current president of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, has been trying for the last three years to aggressively combat espionage and used China’s first National Security Education Day last Friday to increase his efforts. Hoping to rally support by the public to help catch foreign and domestic spies, the Chinese government gave speeches and distributed the “dangerous love” poster across several public bulletin boards on Friday.
Last November, China also debuted its new anti-spy hotline, one year after introducing a new security law aimed at countering espionage by targeting foreign spies and Chinese citizens who help them. According to analysts, the China Communist Party continues to face increased political threats from overseas and is looking for new ways to heighten national security.
China’s analyst with Amnesty International, William Nee, says that the Chinese government’s concern for national security shouldn’t be taken lightly.
“The government hopes to send out a signal of deterrence to warn anybody who may be in a similar position of disclosing state secrets to foreign organization, while at the same time, giving the general public the perception that spies and potential spies may be in their midst, right at their side.”
CNN reports that not many people walking the streets of China are taking the comic poster too seriously. One female student in Beijing said that a lot of her friends have foreign boyfriends, and she would never believe they are spies. Another woman wondered if the poster was a joke, saying “this kind of stuff can happen anywhere.”
Some critics are calling the “dangerous love” poster China’s newest propaganda technique, saying the recent way the Chinese warned dating spies is a real concern for female government workers is “biased” and “misleading.” But China says it’s only trying to educate government employees about keeping classified documents classified, a message that some say should be kept within rank-and-file state employees and not plastered across government bulletin boards viewed by the public.
I’ll have to show this to my new Chinese girl friend. I don’t know if she’ll laugh or start suspiciously looking around the room.
“Roose rips sink ships”
;^)
What a cute couple!
To be honest, I’ve seen plenty of briefings from the other direction. We don’t get cartoons, though.
Makes me kinda sad for the cute li’l Chinese cartoon gal, though. Of course, I kind of felt sad for Sylvester, Wile. E. Coyote, etc. from time to time too. Guess I’m just a sucker that way.
Moral of the story: If some (foreign or not) (male or female), and especially one who is ‘out of your league’ shows interest in you, and especially your career ... watch out.
Heh.
Important lesson I learned from that show: if some super hot Keri Russell type chick starts putting the moves on you you’re probably betraying your country... so make her earn it.
Are you Adrian Zmed?
Red hair? China hates Irishmen?
P51. At this very moment, a police officer and two militia pushed open the door and entered, and solemnly said, “you are arrested!” [Thanks to the alert granddaughter who set up her granddad "spy".]
She is beautiful.... but your tie isn’t straight. ;>)
It seems like light skin is prized world over and has been for thousands of years. Not sure why.
Very attractive couple! Really glad for you to have found true love.
I am in China now. I am about an hour drive east of Qingdao, which is about an 8 hour drive east of Beijing.
I am traveling with two other coworkers. One of them is a 64 year old woman with red hair that is cut short and she wears glasses. She looks remarkably like David in the cartoon.
Yesterday she had a woman ask if she could take a selfie with her. Lots of giggles. I thought it was weird at the time. I think it makes sense now
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You’re a little late to the dance, aren’t you?
And that’s what so many of them like, rounder eyes, “long nose” mestiza blood
That’s you and your wife?
Good Looking couple
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