• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    “The Department of State has no greater priority than the safety and security of US citizens overseas. Due to privacy considerations, we have no further comment,” a spokesperson for the US Embassy said in a statement to CNN.

    Dude is guilty as fuck if the State Department is trying to deflect like this.

    • huf [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      ... so why did they send the dude to spy for them, if they're so concerned with the safety and security of US citizens overseas? why cant they ever say anything that makes sense?

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The US recently told its citizens in Sudan to figure out their own evacuations whereas China sent two navy ships to pull out its own people and those from friendly countries.

        What I'm saying is that the State Department is a pack of fucking liars.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I think this means the US have no idea how the Chinese got him so they have no idea what evidence the Chinese have and do not want to walk right into a trap by saying anything. Lie and the Chinese will just push the evidence into public.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Meanwhile we were like the only country to abandon a bunch of our citizens in a newly-active war zone just last month!

      • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        'No trust me bro we put the cancer ray in EVERY household already and you.. you cant prove we DIDNT uh plus you KNOW we could haha thats right,, so uhh basically WE WIN no use trying >:('

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      any form of "no comment" is always going to be incriminating when strong accusations are made and that's your only response.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    If I was 78 years old and didn't want to die in prison, I would simply not be an American spy.

  • popsickle [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Leung is among a growing number of foreign nationals to have been ensnared in China’s widening crackdown on espionage under leader Xi Jinping.

    The horror 🙀

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      It's all this darn Xi guy's fault, it even says right there it's happening under him. Normally China would never crack down on an imperial spy ring:angery:

    • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      "ensnared in a crackdown of espionage" This is what I was screaming to the SWAT when they did a sting on my meth lab but nobody listened

      • naom3 [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        IIRC I think it was just helping people with filling out forms and updating their chinese drivers licences and stuff like that, because in china it’s not the sole function of the police to enact violence and oppression, which confused the FBI

        Also they weren’t even police they were like volunteers acting as liaisons who you could go to for in-person stuff when travel restrictions were in place. Also I think the obstruction of justice charge was for the volunteers deleting their group chat when they found out they were under investigation

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          There was one that got "busted" that appeared to literally just be a social club for Chinese citizens living in California founded in the nineties, but hey they answered a phone call from a Beijing police station one time so that means they must be secretly intimidating Chinese citizens abroad. But yeah most of them were created during COVID as annexes to the Chinese embassy which would normally be the place where you'd take care of paperwork while abroad.

  • wombat [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    westoids literally get mad when they go to another country and are expected to obey its laws

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Surprising they didn't just go straight to the point and claim this is retaliation for the arrests over the "secret police stations" narrative.

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      States know of other states operatives and they usually have some sort of mutual agreement and often share intel as Russia did with us on the Boston Bombers.

      This is just a checklist of we're no longer on talking terms. As much as China operates in good faith, I don't think the DC establishment is willing to back off the death spiral.

      China should just dump the entirety of US treasury bonds it holds.

      • stinky [any]
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        2 years ago

        States know of other states operatives and they usually have some sort of mutual agreement

        Waaaaat? This is surprising. I thought spies were, like, bad lmao.

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Their spies are bad and evil and they're everywhere. Our spies doesn't exist at all and even though they do exist they're there to keep us safe.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It's only bad when the designated enemy does it. The :anglo-burn: s have an agreement called "Five Eyes" where all the :anti-cracker-aktion: countries share intelligence with each other. But it's not just foreign intelligence; each country spies on the citizens of other countries then shares the data with the government of that country to circumvent "don't spy on the citizens of your own country" laws.

  • VILenin [he/him]M
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    2 years ago

    Correct headline: “American spy sentenced to life in prison”