{"id":71441,"date":"2025-05-02T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/02\/cia-china-videos-communist-party-spying-recruitment"},"modified":"2025-05-02T15:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:33:56","slug":"for-a-better-life-cia-releases-videos-to-lure-disgruntled-ccp-officials-to-spy-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71441","title":{"rendered":"\u2018For a better life\u2019: CIA releases videos to lure disgruntled CCP officials to spy on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US intelligence agency videos target lowly officials who are trapped working for a wealthy corrupt elite and whose fate is \u2018precarious\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The CIA is on a recruitment drive for foreign spies. In their sights are Chinese officials and workers, who the US intelligence agency hopes to turn against Beijing via some newly released glossy videos.<\/p>\n<p>The two videos touch on probable anxieties among some inside the Communist party machine \u2013 getting stuck in a lowly job assisting an increasingly wealthy corrupt official, or becoming victim to the endless purges that have targeted millions of party members at all levels since Xi Jinping came to power.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/02\/cia-china-videos-communist-party-spying-recruitment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US intelligence agency videos target lowly officials who are trapped working for a wealthy corrupt elite and whose fate is \u2018precarious\u2019 The CIA is on a recruitment drive for foreign spies. In their sights are Chinese officials and workers, who the US i&#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":[41,50,885,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-cia","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71441","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=71441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71442,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71441\/revisions\/71442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}