Singapore spy case reawakens fears China recruiting intelligence assets on island state by geddiejdk RDchatters
Jun Wei Yeo, a 39-year-old academic who also goes by the name Dickson Yeo, pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Friday to acting as an illegal agent of Chinese intelligence. He will be sentenced in October and faces up to 10 years in prison.
“One fool like this can get all Singaporeans suspected,” academic and former Singaporean diplomat Bilahari Kausikan said in a Facebook post in response to the spy’s case. When he moved to the United States his handlers gave him a bank card and told him to communicate with them using multiple phones to avoid detection.
Yeo’s former PhD supervisor at Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy was an ethnic Chinese U.S. citizen, who was accused by Singaporean authorities in 2017 of being an agent of foreign influence for an undisclosed country.Now working in Beijing, Huang said he was shocked and glad Yeo had been caught, noting that he had an “obvious sense of insecurity and hunger for being somebody”.
At loggerheads with the United States over trade and other issues, Beijing denied knowledge of Yeo’s case on Monday and accused the United States of using espionage claims to smear China. “People might be more suspicious of Singaporeans if there is a perception that Singapore is compromised,” said Chong Ja Ian, a visiting Singapore scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in Cambridge, Mass.. Chong said the incident may also make it more difficult for Singapore to walk the diplomatic tightrope between Washington and Beijing.
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