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Recent Examples of counterespionage
After China’s recent adoption of stringent data security and counterespionage legislation, European and American companies are discouraging executives from carrying information out of China even about day-to-day corporate operations.
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Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
In the name of national security, China earlier this month called on its citizens to participate in counterespionage work, following an expansion of its anti-spying law in July, alarming the United States.
—Reuters, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2023
China’s recent expansion of its counterespionage law to cover a much wider array of information, coupled with raids on some advisory firms and a pickup in exit bans on foreigners, has made the business environment more uncertain.
—Jami Miscik, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2023
Beijing saw it as meddling by a foreign government, heightening tensions following Australia’s ban on Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. from its next-generation 5G mobile network and a tightening of counterespionage safeguards to criminalize foreign meddling in domestic politics.
—Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
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Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
In the name of national security, China earlier this month called on its citizens to participate in counterespionage work, following an expansion of its anti-spying law in July, alarming the United States.
—Reuters, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2023
China’s recent expansion of its counterespionage law to cover a much wider array of information, coupled with raids on some advisory firms and a pickup in exit bans on foreigners, has made the business environment more uncertain.
—Jami Miscik, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2023
Beijing saw it as meddling by a foreign government, heightening tensions following Australia’s ban on Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. from its next-generation 5G mobile network and a tightening of counterespionage safeguards to criminalize foreign meddling in domestic politics.
—Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterespionage
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Still, a former top U.S. counterintelligence official told the Herald that China has been using Bejucal to spy on the U.S. since the early 1990s.—
Nora Gamez Torres,
Miami Herald,
26 Aug. 2025
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The Attorney General is often required to make decisions, with high stakes and on short notice, on an array of difficult matters, from blocking mergers to approving counterintelligence investigations to appealing cases to the Supreme Court.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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Kicking off the development slate are projects Skeleton Coast, a survival thriller to be written and directed by Marshall, and Blackout, an espionage piece to be written and directed by Duffield.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
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This not only puts sensitive defense capabilities at risk of espionage but also directly endangers our service members.—
Michael Evanoff,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Privacy, inseparable from dignity in Islamic ethics, surfaces as a second red line; the Qurʾānic injunction against spying frames debates over data harvesting, data sharing, high-tech surveillance, etc.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
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Weil is currently adapting for United Artists and Conclave director Edward Berger the film about Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal‘s foreign correspondent who was thrown into a Russian prison for a year on bogus spying charges.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
11 Aug. 2025
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Would any self-respecting show really risk insulting the viewer’s intelligence so flagrantly?—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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Tariff anxieties continue to weigh on family office deal-making, which sunk in August by nearly 50% on a year-over-year basis, according to the private wealth intelligence platform.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Counterespionage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterespionage. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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