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[+] -7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

There is zero evidence that she was a spy. This is cold war era propaganda that we should really have learned to investigate by now. The source of this information is the US state which has provided zero hard evidence. Journalist are simply citing what the state told them. The evidence we do have points towards her being the head of a singaporean shell company used to sell computer parts in China through Alibaba. This is most likely a hit by the US state to take out a CEO who wasn't doing what they wanted. He was skirting export restrictions and this is state sanctioned libel meant to remove him from a position of power.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    So she's not a chinese spy, just head of a chinese shell company to circumvent selling restrictions and sleeping with the CEO.

    What would a spy do in your opinion?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago

    Right?! I was laughing reading that.

    Sure shes spyin, but can you really call her a spy? She was simply stealing national security secrets and getting round export controls for a fake Chinese company. Who amongst us has not done such things.

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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 child)

    A spy would be a government agent who's purpose is to collect and transmit sensitive information from one nation to another with the goal of undermining the target nations security. She is a smuggler who traffics commodities for money, not a spy.

    Alternatively you could argue that corporate spies exist but this takes the form of infiltrating a rival company to access private information to be utilized by the spying company for their own private benefit at the detriment of the spied upon company. In our case the relationship was a mutually beneficial trafficking operation.

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  • [–] 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    A spy would be gathering sensitive intelligence, i.e. spying, not running a smuggling operation... that makes her a smuggler.

    What is the evidence for her conducting espionage?

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  • [–] 2 points 22 hours ago

    So there's no evidence and we're presenting theories.

    She was the director of singaporean companies that smuggled NVIDIA AI chips to private Chinese tech companies and AI proxy datatcenters in SE Asia, bragging to investors about securing access to NVIDIA.

    Chinese state policy is to focus on R&D into advanved semi conductors, not to fund corrupt black market smugglers fuelling the AI bubble and not even national security & intelligence, this doesn't even definitely benefit them, her actions don't sound like what a spy would do but what a corrupt private businessman and smuggler could.

    Not to mention regardless of whether she is a spy or not, there is no actual evidence and the theory of her being a spy proportional to likelihood has instead suspiciously large amount of support from anonymous US intelligence officials, neocons and right wing outlets because it is a far too convenient of an excuse to justify warmongering and espionage.

    That's another theory and opinion.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    The term "spy" might be a little sensational here, but consider that these export controls are in place for (supposedly) national security reasons but also to limit corporate espionage. So maybe she wasn't sneaking around in a ninja suit and planting surveillance gadgets, but if she was sleeping with him as part of a scheme to circumvent export controls then espionage may actually be the appropriate term for that AND it makes for sensational headlines.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago

    Ooo, I dunno, she is the head of a Singaporean company that sells through Alibaba, open and shut case if you ask me. Definitely a spy, just like the thousands of other execs fitting that description.

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