On January 3, a Hong Kong media said that five more people were arrested in the North Korean espionage case involving Qian Weiping, and the incident is still under investigation.
There is further news about Lieutenant General Qian Weiping (full military rank), deputy head of the equipment department of the Communist Party of China’s military commission, who was arrested on espionage charges. A Hong Kong media disclosed that five more people have been arrested in the North Korean espionage case involving Qian Weiping, and the incident is still under investigation.
According to a report by Apple Daily on January 4, citing the China Human Rights and Democracy Movement Information Center, according to informed sources, Qian Weiping is involved in the North Korean espionage case, and five other people have been arrested in the same case. But the information center did not give details about the five men.
For example, North Korea has infiltrated Chinese submarine research institutions to obtain key technology for the country’s new submarines, and China has invested tens of billions of yuan in institutions over the past 20 years to improve submarine silencing technology and materials, which North Korea is likely to have acquired; North Korea is also accelerating the production of a “second nuclear strike submarine,” which is considered the most difficult security vulnerability for Japan to defend in a few years.
According to the information, Qian Weiping, born in 1963, is an expert in aerospace measurement, control and communication, born in Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, and was the director of the Institute of Tracking and Communication Technology in Beijing and chief designer of the measurement, control and communication system for China’s manned space program. He was also the chief designer of the measurement and control systems for Chang’e-1 and Chang’e-2, and the chief designer of the measurement and control communication systems for the Tiangong/Shenzhou-8 rendezvous and Tiangong/Shenzhou-9 manned rendezvous and docking, etc. In January 2016, the CPC Military Commission completed the restructuring of its organs and formed the new Equipment Development Department of the CPC Military Commission. In March of the same year, Qian Weiping became the director of the Information Systems Bureau of the newly established Equipment Development Department of the CPC Military Commission.
On July 14, 2019, after news of Qian Weiping’s arrest leaked out, Hong Kong’s Ming Pao reported that the CCP’s military security department detained Qian Weiping for investigation after a secret investigation and after a meeting in early July. The tip that Qian Weiping was involved in espionage came from Russia, and the tip that Qian’s son was turned by the CIA in the United States was also obtained through the Russian intelligence service. However, the report said that it is rare for the Russian side to inform the Chinese Communist Party of a spy case involving a senior military general.
The report said that the news of Qian Weiping’s involvement in espionage is basically true. The source said that Qian Weiping’s son, who studied in the United States, returned home during his vacation and repeatedly took pictures and electronically copied classified documents related to the Chinese Communist Party’s military equipment and manned space flight, during which Qian Weiping was aware but did not investigate deeply.
The news reveals that the military did not notice the traces of Qian Weiping’s involvement in the case. late May 2019, Qian Weiping’s son did not leave the country after returning from the United States, or was detained for investigation because of his involvement in the case.
Another source said that Qian Weiping’s two daughters in the United States were also recalled to China. After the Qian case broke out, the Chinese Communist Party military is re-examining issues related to the children of senior generals studying abroad.
On July 24 of the same year, Wu Qian, a spokesman for the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of National Defense, denied rumors that Qian Weiping had been arrested for espionage, saying that Qian was under investigation for alleged disciplinary violations and job-related crimes.
Qian Weiping is the first “military tiger” of military rank and above to be investigated since the 19th CPC National Congress. Qian’s case is also another high-level leak after the former general manager of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), Sun Bo, was rumored to be involved in leaking secrets.
On July 4, 2019, Sun Bo, the former general manager of CSIC, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. According to official media, Sun Bo was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the crime of “evidence involving state secrets”.
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