China is proud to have caught alleged spy Xue Feng ‘spying ‘ on China. Proud, I claim, for one principal reason. The reason is that Xue Feng, to China is a Chinese and will aways be a Chinese person. Yes he holds an American passport and got out of China during Tianenman, and thus is a lucky man, but that only serves to anger the chinese and communists more.
There is a big push in China to keep the locals in China. They are frustrated by the vast numbers of educated and wealthy who are flocking from China like rats from a skinkning ship. Each day the news laudits those ‘overseas Chinese’ who return to their’mother’ or China.The chicoms don’t want more people to leave, it is a face saving thing, it hurts their pride.
Thus, it is interesting to take note of this case in those terms. The man who is caught is a well eduated Chinese man who has dared to work overseas and share his intelligence with a country ohter than his ‘motherland’. Thus, irrepespective of if he was spying or not, as to me, that is just a detail for this piece, the Chinese are using him to make a poiont.
The point is, that if you are a Chinese, or were a Chinese and return to the ‘motherland’ and are caught doing something that may even be marginal, you will receive the full punishment of the law. The Rio Tinto case is similar, but in it there was supposedly outright bribery. But it runs parallel in terms of the people in that case were also Chinese who had changed citizenship. The chicoms seem to be sending a strong message. At least imho…