Posted on 01/27/2022 11:36:56 AM PST by yesthatjallen
In the latest incident, a potential high-profile defection from China leaves open the possibility of the West getting inside information into one of Beijing’s most advanced hypersonic weapons.
China’s Stringent State Secret Laws
China’s state secret laws cover almost everything starting from industry data, all the way to the exact birth dates of state leaders. Information can even be designated as a state secret retroactively.
There is a wide range of punishments for leaking such sensitive information. In the most serious cases, a life sentence or death penalty can be doled out. For instance, in 2016, a Chinese computer technician named Huang Yu was reportedly sentenced to death for the crime of leaking over 150,000 classified documents to an unnamed foreign power.
Huang worked for a government department that was involved in handling state secrets. The documents he allegedly provided covered subjects ranging from military and financial issues in the country to details about the ruling communist party.
There have been a few other cases of people defecting and successfully handing over information to foreign powers, especially governments in the West.
Previous Defections
In February 2016, reports of the most “valuable defector” to flee to the US came out. This person was Ling Wancheng, the brother of Ling Jihua, who had served as the chief of staff to then-President Hu Jintao.
It was reported that Ling Wancheng had revealed details regarding Chinese procedures for launching nuclear weapons, the personal lives of Chinese leaders, and arrangements for their security amongst other things, to US investigators.
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Presumably the defector has no family remaining in China.
Defectors are often used to spread disinformation.
Brandon will just hand him back.
No he won’t. He’ll let the Chicoms know where he’s hiding.
True. Examining the schematics one would hope they reveal advanced technical features.
Let's hope we don't spending billions on building these things until we know they're real and work.
And they don’t read comments either...they are still going with it...
This person will be brought directly back to China possibly even before the interrogation is done.
watch,, pedo-joe and friends will out him in a few months.
This guy needs to go into hiding. He cannot trust the current US government to keep him safe.
That far he da’sn’t go. He’ll screw him less directly, but first he’ll get from him the secrets to the hypersonic missile.
Nobody bothers to read the article. He defected to the UK, not to the USA.
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My bad. Thanks.
There is a wide range of punishments for leaking such sensitive information. In the most serious cases, a life sentence or death penalty can be doled out.
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The guy will probably be offed by our CIA.
After reading the article, it’s apparent out military is hardly war ready. Several major incidents on that one carrier, just since November.
But at least we can say we have a tranny admiral, eh. Priorities.
bkmk
There are very few persons with the knowledge on how to fully build something complex. However, whether a technician, fabricator, engineer or scientist, all would have pieces of the puzzle of what it takes to duplicate an item. This puzzle piece could be personal expertise or confidential documentation.
This confidential information is certainly not limited to state secrets as in this OP subject but is within every aspect of business. I routinely worked within this world of confidential information in industry. It didn’t limit me in my plying my skills and learning new things all the time. Ethically however, I was and remain protective of confidences shared or discovered in the course of things.
Ling Wancheng is about to get the Biden treatment. He’ll be sent home after being transgenderized.
Christians In Action must still be at work.
Double agent? Probable dead by now if this was legit.
HUANG YU was sentenced to death.
Talk about perfect names.
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