{"id":50215,"date":"2022-11-15T07:54:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T22:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/14\/canada-china-espionage-hydroelectricity-trade-secrets"},"modified":"2022-11-15T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T22:54:58","slug":"canada-charges-electric-vehicle-battery-researcher-with-espionage-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50215","title":{"rendered":"Canada charges electric vehicle battery researcher with espionage for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yuesheng Wang, a worker at Quebec\u2019s power utility, is accused of sending trade secrets to China <\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s federal police have charged an electric vehicle battery researcher at Quebec\u2019s power utility with espionage, alleging the worker was covertly sending trade secrets to China.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of Yuesheng Wang, 35, comes as Canada grapples with a barrage of accusations of Chinese interference, including allegations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/07\/china-weaken-canada-democracy-justin-trudeau\">meddling in its federal elections<\/a>, as well as reports of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/07\/chinese-police-stations-toronto-canada\">secret \u201cpolice stations\u201d<\/a> in the country\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/14\/canada-china-espionage-hydroelectricity-trade-secrets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuesheng Wang, a worker at Quebec\u2019s power utility, is accused of sending trade secrets to China Canada\u2019s federal police have charged an electric vehicle battery researcher at Quebec\u2019s power utility with espionage, alleging the worker was covertly sendi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"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":[246,41,244,50,667,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-espionage","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50215","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\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50216,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50215\/revisions\/50216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}