by Charles Liu
The NanfangToday, 10:30 AM
Chinese authorities have detained a foreign national in the northeastern province of Jilin who is described as a “spy”.
At the end of October near the City of Baishi, a farmer named Yin Gangzheng was working in his field when he spotted a man acting suspiciously. Yin said the man was peering through a telescope as he looked around him to see if anyone was watching him. Not wanting to leave this to chance, Yin called in the Chinese border patrol who detained the man.
Upon searching the unidentified man, the border patrol discovered he had a foreign passport, a camera with photographs of Chinese military installations, and even a hand-drawn diagram of Chinese troop movements that was hidden in his underwear. The border patrol determined the man to have come to China to collect information on the Chinese military.
No specific charges have been announced so far.
Much of China’s shared border with North Korea is in Jilin, while the province also shares a small border with Russia.
Jilin had recently revealed a national anti-espionage hotline (12339) to which any Chinese citizen can call in to report a suspected spy. Meanwhile in nearby Liaoning, Canadian Christian missionaries Kevin and Julia Ann Garratt were both arrested on suspicion of stealing military secrets, for which the latter has been released on bail.
Jilin has been a center for international incidents that involve China’s neighbor and ally, North Korea.
Jilin’s ethnically-Korean city of Yanji saw the kidnapping of South Korean pastor Reverend Kim Dong-shik in 2000 as well as the detention of American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling in 2009. It also serves as a suspected gateway for illegal drugs like crystal meth.
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