{"id":54951,"date":"2023-05-09T14:23:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T05:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/china-targets-foreign-consulting-companies-in-anti-spying-raids"},"modified":"2023-05-09T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T05:23:22","slug":"china-targets-foreign-consulting-companies-in-anti-spying-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54951","title":{"rendered":"China targets foreign consulting companies in anti-spying raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media report suggests growing suspicions of firms involved in due diligence and business research industries<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities appear to be running a targeted espionage investigation of foreign consulting firms operating in the country, according to a state media report, after recent raids on the offices several international firms.<\/p>\n<p>The latest known case saw officers raid multiple offices used by the business consulting firm Capvision in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou and Shenzhen, Chinese state media reported on Monday. It followed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/24\/authorities-raid-beijing-offices-of-us-mintz-group-detaining-five-chinese-staff\">raids on Mintz Group<\/a> in March, which saw five employees arrested and the branch shut down. US management consulting firm Bain &amp; Company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/27\/china-widens-already-breathtaking-scope-to-arrest-foreigners-for-espionage\">said its Shanghai office was visited<\/a> by Chinese officers in April, and employees questioned.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/china-targets-foreign-consulting-companies-in-anti-spying-raids\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media report suggests growing suspicions of firms involved in due diligence and business research industriesChinese authorities appear to be running a targeted espionage investigation of foreign consulting firms operating in the country, accordin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/54951","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54952,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54951\/revisions\/54952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}