{"id":45269,"date":"2022-06-08T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T04:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/08\/china-offers-cash-and-spiritual-rewards-to-citizens-for-national-security-tip-offs"},"modified":"2022-06-08T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T04:58:11","slug":"china-offers-cash-and-spiritual-rewards-to-citizens-for-national-security-tip-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45269","title":{"rendered":"China offers cash and \u2018spiritual rewards\u2019 to citizens for national security tip-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incentives aim to motivate the public as \u2018threats\u2019 from foreign intelligence agencies intensify, according to state media<\/p>\n<p>Chinese citizens can get rewards of more than 100,000 yuan (\u00a312,000\/US$15,000) and special certificates for tip-offs on breaches of national security under measures introduced this week, state media has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Rewards for exposing foreign spies or other security violations have existed for years in China. The new measures, according to a state media outlet, are aimed at standardising rewards and motivating the public at a time of intensifying \u201cthreats\u201d from foreign intelligence agencies and other quarters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/08\/china-offers-cash-and-spiritual-rewards-to-citizens-for-national-security-tip-offs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incentives aim to motivate the public as \u2018threats\u2019 from foreign intelligence agencies intensify, according to state mediaChinese citizens can get rewards of more than 100,000 yuan (\u00a312,000\/US$15,000) and special certificates for tip-offs on breaches of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,474],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-surveillance"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45289,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45269\/revisions\/45289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}