{"id":62252,"date":"2024-03-01T04:14:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T19:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/29\/canada-scientist-classified-information-china-wuhan"},"modified":"2024-03-01T04:14:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T19:14:37","slug":"scientist-fed-classified-information-to-china-says-canada-intelligence-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62252","title":{"rendered":"Scientist fed classified information to China, says Canada intelligence report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report says Xiangguo Qiu secretly worked with Wuhan Institute for Virology and posed a \u2018threat to Canada\u2019s economic security\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A leading research scientist at Canada\u2019s highest-security laboratory provided confidential scientific information to Chinese institutions, met secretly with officials and posed \u201ca realistic and credible threat to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/canada\">Canada<\/a>\u2019s economic security\u201d according to newly released intelligence reports.<\/p>\n<p>The dismissal of Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, has been shrouded in mystery ever since the couple were escorted from Winnipeg\u2019s National Microbiology Laboratory in 2019 and formally fired two years later.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/29\/canada-scientist-classified-information-china-wuhan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report says Xiangguo Qiu secretly worked with Wuhan Institute for Virology and posed a \u2018threat to Canada\u2019s economic security\u2019A leading research scientist at Canada\u2019s highest-security laboratory provided confidential scientific information to Chinese in&#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":[246,244,50,1279,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-china","category-research","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62252","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=62252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62253,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62252\/revisions\/62253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}