Beware of the next garbled request to connect
“We are an international headhunter company, your profile attracted me. One of our partner in China looking for a freelancer researcher, helping them write some papers they will pay 1500-3000 USD for 6-10 pages. Contact me if you are interested.”
In receipt of the error-strewn message on LinkedIn was Sam Armstrong, communications director of the Henry Jackson Society, an influential London think tank (often featured in these pages) that is critical of Beijing.
According to an account in the Spectator, the suspiciously unprofessional wording and offer of high pay from a “Mr. Zha” was actually just one more example of China’s aggressive attempt to recruit influencers across Britain.
As part of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s drive to push his country to world leadership in all areas, China has engaged in industrial-scale espionage operations to hoover up the West’s technological secrets. In parallel has been a push to recruit mouthpieces for the Chinese Communist Party.
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