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Recent Examples of counterespionage
Xi's harsh covid-19 lockdowns brought significant swaths of the Chinese economy to a standstill in 2022, and his officials have raided foreign companies in apparent counterespionage investigations.
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Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 8 Feb. 2024
In the name of national security, China earlier this month called on its citizens to participate in counterespionage work, following an expansion of its anti-spying law in July, alarming the United States.
—Reuters, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2023
Beijing saw it as meddling by a foreign government, heightening tensions following Australia’s ban on Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. from its next-generation 5G mobile network and a tightening of counterespionage safeguards to criminalize foreign meddling in domestic politics.
—Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
After China’s recent adoption of stringent data security and counterespionage legislation, European and American companies are discouraging executives from carrying information out of China even about day-to-day corporate operations.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
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Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 8 Feb. 2024
In the name of national security, China earlier this month called on its citizens to participate in counterespionage work, following an expansion of its anti-spying law in July, alarming the United States.
—Reuters, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2023
Beijing saw it as meddling by a foreign government, heightening tensions following Australia’s ban on Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. from its next-generation 5G mobile network and a tightening of counterespionage safeguards to criminalize foreign meddling in domestic politics.
—Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
After China’s recent adoption of stringent data security and counterespionage legislation, European and American companies are discouraging executives from carrying information out of China even about day-to-day corporate operations.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterespionage
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The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security and counterintelligence service, has increased its surveillance of neighborhoods with high proportions of Arabs and has arrested hundreds.—
DANIEL BYMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
28 July 2025
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The agent, who specializes in cases involving counterintelligence as well as aircraft and aerospace technology transfers, wrote in the affidavit that evidence ties Zhou to the phone used to call the family and that Li was tied to a phone used to text them.—
Julia Marnin
July 2,
Sacbee.com,
2 July 2025
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Estoril, Portugal Estoril was a center of espionage during WWII, when both Axis and Allied spies and personnel (including Fleming—then a British naval officer) filled its hotels.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
29 July 2025
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Some states have taken preemptive action to prevent espionage from occurring.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
24 July 2025
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Trump also hinted on Tuesday that Obama could be prosecuted after the latter’s administration reportedly ignored intelligence community assessments suggesting that Russia wasn’t directly meddling in the 2016 election.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
23 July 2025
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Within 3-6 years: Widespread artificial general intelligence (AGI) emerges, with machines rivaling our brightest minds across intellectual domains.—
Arafat Kabir,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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“Counterespionage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterespionage. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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