Report: U.S. ‘Secretly Expelled’ Chinese Diplomats After They Breached A Military Base – By Emily Zanotti (Daily Wire) / Dec 15 2019
The United States expelled at least two Chinese diplomats for spying on a U.S. military base, according to a report from The New York Times, marking the first time the U.S. has taken action to prevent and punish Chinese spying in at least three decades.
The Times reports that the expulsions stem from an incident that took place in September — an incident that neither the United States nor the Chinese government made public at the time.
Two Chinese officials, one of whom may have been an intelligence expert “operating under diplomatic cover” drove onto a military base in Virginia, according to reports, only to be intercepted by military vehicles. The two “diplomats” then tried to evade capture, leading military officials on a chase and stopping “only when fire trucks blocked their path.”
“The Chinese officials and their wives drove up to a checkpoint for entry to the base, said people briefed on the episode. A guard, realizing that they did not have permission to enter, told them to go through the gate, turn around and exit the base, which is common procedure in such situations,” the Times reported. “But the Chinese officials instead continued on to the base, according to those familiar with the incident. After the fire trucks blocked them, the Chinese officials indicated that they had not understood the guard’s English instructions, and had simply gotten lost, according to people briefed on the matter.”
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