China Spygate: SG Official Bilahari Kausikan: "one fool like this can get all Singaporeans Suspected"

[Charlie99]

Those gentlemen in grey tux, not wearing socks, and their jackets are too tight (small).
I am unaware that cuffs should be hidden.

 

[glockman]

Serious. We all suffer from tiongcock. now we singaporean is all tiongcock spy. we unwelcome in other country

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/poli...ation-concerns-after-jun-wei-yeo-admits-being

Singapore reputation concerns after Jun Wei Yeo admits being Chinese spy in US

• The Singapore citizen, also known as Dickson Yeo, pleaded guilty in Washington to operating illegally as a foreign agent for Chinese intelligence
• Former Singapore official Bilahari Kausikan joined online discussions on the topic, saying ‘one fool like this can get all Singaporeans suspected’

Dewey Sim in Singapore
Published: 7:46pm, 25 Jul, 2020


News of a Singaporean man being charged in the
US
for spying for
Chinese
intelligence was widely discussed on social media among the city state’s residents on Saturday, with concerns centring on whether it would affect the city state’s reputation.
Jun Wei Yeo, 39, also known as Dickson Yeo, on Friday
pleaded guilty in Washington
to one count of operating illegally as a foreign agent for the Chinese government and obtaining non-public information from the United States.
Bilahari Kausikan, the former permanent secretary of
Singapore
’s foreign affairs ministry, weighed in on discussions on Facebook, sharing a speech he had given two years ago with his observations on how the Chinese conducted “public diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific”.
In an earlier post about the charges levied against Yeo, he said “one fool like this can get all Singaporeans suspected”.

People cross a street in Singapore, as online discussions took place about a citizen charged with spying for China in the US. Photo: AFP
Bilahari also pointed out in his Facebook post that Yeo studied at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP). His PhD supervisor was
Huang Jing
– a Chinese-American political scientist who had his Singapore permanent residence revoked in 2017 after the home affairs ministry said he tried to influence foreign policy for an unknown government.


Court documents said Yeo had worked under the direction and control of Chinese intelligence over the past four to five years, and had used social media sites to “spot and assess” Americans with access to “valuable non-public information”. This included US military and government employees with high-level security clearances.

Yeo would recruit these individuals and pay them to write reports, saying they were intended for clients in Asia when in fact they were sent to the Chinese government.
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To obtain sensitive information, Yeo was instructed by a Chinese intelligence operative in 2018 to create a fake consulting firm and post job listings on an online recruitment site. Yeo created the company using the same name as a prominent US consulting firm that conducts public and government relations, and received over 400 resumes.

About 90 per cent of these CVs were from US military and government personnel with security clearances, according to Yeo, who then sent them to Chinese intelligence operatives if he believed they would find them interesting.

Yeo also used a networking website to find people with resumes and job descriptions suggesting they were likely to have access to valuable non-public information. He found that once he contacted targets, the website would start suggesting additional potential contacts.

The Chinese flag flies behind a security camera at a Chinese consulate in the US. Photo: AP
“According to Yeo, the website’s algorithm was relentless,” the seven-page court documents stated. “Later, Yeo told US law enforcement that it felt almost like an addiction.”

Yeo’s work with Chinese intelligence began in early 2015 while studying at LKYSPP, when he travelled to Beijing to give a presentation on the political situation in Southeast Asia.
“After his presentation, Yeo was recruited by various individuals who claimed to represent PRC-based think tanks. These individuals offered Yeo money in exchange for political reports and information,” the court documents said.
Singaporean pleads guilty in US to working for Chinese intelligence
25 Jul 2020
View attachment 87365
Yeo was tasked to provide the Chinese with information about international political, economic, and diplomatic relations, initially focused on Southeast Asia but later more on the US.
Yeo also met operatives across China on more than 20 occasions. During one of his meetings at a private hotel room, he was tasked with obtaining non-public information about the US Department of Commerce, artificial intelligence, and the “trade war” between China and the United States.
To further his efforts, the Singaporean moved to Washington from January to July 2019, where he attended multiple events at think tanks to network, and built contacts with individuals from lobbying firms to defence contracting companies.
Yeo was eventually arrested in November that year when he returned to the US with plans to get a Pentagon official to provide more confidential information.

The Chinese flag flies over the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, US. Photo: AFP
Yeo’s case comes amid worsening relations between the
US and China
, and as part of the US Justice Department’s efforts to counter Chinese national security threats. Acting US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael R Sherwin, said as he announced the plea that the case showed how China can exploit non-Chinese nationals, the internet and the openness of American society to directly target financially vulnerable officials in the federal government’s backyard.
A former Singapore academic who asked not to be named said Yeo seemed to have an “inflated sense of his own importance and in need of recognition and validation”.
“In any case, I think the Chinese sure knew how to exploit their victims,” he said.
Huang Jing, Chinese-American academic expelled by Singapore, working in Beijing
17 Jun 2019
View attachment 87366
Echoing Bilahari’s point on how there could be more suspicion towards Singaporeans in the US, the former academic said there was already a growing concern that Beijing was using ethnic Chinese in the US to influence opinion and advance its interests.
“This case would suggest that those scholars were not being paranoid, and more worryingly for Singaporean academics in the US, or hoping to go to the US, they may come under greater scrutiny or be viewed with suspicion,” he said.
Dylan Loh, an assistant professor of social sciences at the Nanyang Technological University, felt that the Singapore government would be careful not to let its citizens be used by any foreign party, even though he felt the case would not substantially change Singapore’s relations with either the US or China.
“Singapore must be clear-eyed about the extent to which the Chinese state is prepared to exercise influence in various ways, and build safeguards in that regard,” he said. “I think others will judge Singapore based on its deeds and, I think, we have shown consistently that we are nobody’s stooge.”

Non-Chinese nationals spying for chinkland? Look no further than this forum! We are home to a bunch of commie dick sucking assholes, traitors. Everyone of them should be arrested and jailed. Executed even, which is the preferred method of punishment for these turncoats.

 

[eatshitndie]

Those gentlemen in grey tux, not wearing socks, and their jackets are too tight (small).
I am unaware that cuffs should be hidden.

ultra tight suits and tux are now in fashion. they are ok on skinny guys but are horrible on fat guys.

 

[Charlie99]

ultra tight suits and tux are now in fashion. they are ok on skinny guys but are horrible on fat guys.

I prefer to be just fitting and comfortable

 

[eatshitndie]

I prefer to be just fitting and comfortable

mine is a little loose as i’ve lost weight from 169 lbs to 69 kg.

 

[mojito]

Well, PAP barking dog 狗屎官, your boss has been kissing up to the Chicoms for quite some time.

Oh, by the way, he's not stepping down until after the pandemic... it's anyone's guess when that will be.

Here is a video of him praising the WHO's Tedros for his 'leadership'.



When are you dimwits going to eat humble pie and admit that the feckless son is just incompetent?

Hongyi app has done well in containing the corona. I think it is right time for Heng to invite him for tea...

 

[congo9]

Quite sick of Bilahari.

 

[congo9]

I am not sure if we Singapore don't gather intellegence secretly. But I think USA wanted Tekan China. USA should just Send a fez hypersonic missile and sink a few frigate from China navy.

Then Korea, Japan and Taiwan can join hands together with EU and start to take China piece of piece. China itself is not dangerous. But the Chicom are a danger to the whole world.

Xi and his company must be rounded up and being lock up.

 

[Loofydralb]

Stupid Bilahari now realises his incompetence that China has been for decades mining SG for intelligence and since 70% are ethnically Chinese will have some form of allegiance with China. Bilahari thinks he is too clever for the Malaysians but he don't understand the long game they all play. This is what happens if you get your head too big and fail to do your job.

Remember LKY said, "If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background" and substitute Malay for Chinese and you have a problem.

 

[laksaboy]

Stupid Bilahari now realises his incompetence that China has been for decades mining SG for intelligence and since 70% are ethnically Chinese will have some form of allegiance with China. Bilahari thinks he is too clever for the Malaysians but he don't understand the long game they all play. This is what happens if you get your head too big and fail to do your job.

Remember LKY said, "If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background" and substitute Malay for Chinese and you have a problem.

Whoa, don't lump all of us Chinese Sinkies into the China/PRC fanclub.

As I've mentioned before, the pro-PRC propaganda in Sinkieland is off the charts, especially on Chinese media and social media. Obviously some entity has been funding and orchestrating it. And some folks out there would get brainwashed and believe some of that nonsense e.g. the inevitable rise of China, the China century etc.

 

[Loofydralb]

Whoa, don't lump all of us Chinese Sinkies into the China/PRC fanclub.

Then Chinese need to openly state your disdain and reject LKY's statement on distrust of his fellow Malay citizens.

Have real equality instead of the fake one we have now, like equal opportunities for Malays in SAF for a start.

As I've mentioned before, the pro-PRC propaganda in Sinkieland is off the charts, especially on Chinese media and social media. Obviously some entity has been funding and orchestrating it. And some folks out there would get brainwashed and believe some of that nonsense e.g. the inevitable rise of China, the China century etc.

After all it was LKY who declared the 21st century will belong to China. If there is one person who we should be distrustful of, it will be LKY.

 

[steffychun]

All Sinkies in the US must be checked by FBI.

 

[tiongsrshit]

this bastard fucked us all now the AMDK thinks singapore is part of china! problem!

 

[redbull313]

Ok wat. He spying against Trump, not PAP. No problem.

when you go to AMDK country for visit/holiday/business now you will be searched and your phone tracked because you are same passport as dickson

AMDK technology company now will treat you with as suspect

happy?

 

[mojito]

when you go to AMDK country for visit/holiday/business now you will be searched and your phone tracked because you are same passport as dickson

AMDK technology company now will treat you with as suspect

happy?

Who cares? I got my kopi o, kaya toast and pioneer discounts. Suspect let them suspect lor! Chey!

 

[laksaboy]

when you go to AMDK country for visit/holiday/business now you will be searched and your phone tracked because you are same passport as dickson

AMDK technology company now will treat you with as suspect

happy?

Please lah, AMDK border security and intelligence personnel are more competent than your Sinkie ICA/ISA imbeciles.

They must have Dickson on their watchlist for quite some time.

At most you'll be questioned and your phone checked. But you won't be detained unless they already have evidence.

 

[redbull313]

Please lah, AMDK border security and intelligence personnel are more competent than your Sinkie ICA/ISA imbeciles.

They must have Dickson on their watchlist for quite some time.

At most you'll be questioned and your phone checked. But you won't be detained unless they already have evidence.

i hope that is all that happens sick of other sinkees spoiling it for all of us.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Serious. We all suffer from tiongcock. now we singaporean is all tiongcock spy. we unwelcome in other country

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/poli...ation-concerns-after-jun-wei-yeo-admits-being

Singapore reputation concerns after Jun Wei Yeo admits being Chinese spy in US

• The Singapore citizen, also known as Dickson Yeo, pleaded guilty in Washington to operating illegally as a foreign agent for Chinese intelligence
• Former Singapore official Bilahari Kausikan joined online discussions on the topic, saying ‘one fool like this can get all Singaporeans suspected’

Dewey Sim in Singapore
Published: 7:46pm, 25 Jul, 2020


News of a Singaporean man being charged in the
US
for spying for
Chinese
intelligence was widely discussed on social media among the city state’s residents on Saturday, with concerns centring on whether it would affect the city state’s reputation.
Jun Wei Yeo, 39, also known as Dickson Yeo, on Friday
pleaded guilty in Washington
to one count of operating illegally as a foreign agent for the Chinese government and obtaining non-public information from the United States.
Bilahari Kausikan, the former permanent secretary of
Singapore
’s foreign affairs ministry, weighed in on discussions on Facebook, sharing a speech he had given two years ago with his observations on how the Chinese conducted “public diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific”.
In an earlier post about the charges levied against Yeo, he said “one fool like this can get all Singaporeans suspected”.

People cross a street in Singapore, as online discussions took place about a citizen charged with spying for China in the US. Photo: AFP
Bilahari also pointed out in his Facebook post that Yeo studied at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP). His PhD supervisor was
Huang Jing
– a Chinese-American political scientist who had his Singapore permanent residence revoked in 2017 after the home affairs ministry said he tried to influence foreign policy for an unknown government.


Court documents said Yeo had worked under the direction and control of Chinese intelligence over the past four to five years, and had used social media sites to “spot and assess” Americans with access to “valuable non-public information”. This included US military and government employees with high-level security clearances.

Yeo would recruit these individuals and pay them to write reports, saying they were intended for clients in Asia when in fact they were sent to the Chinese government.
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To obtain sensitive information, Yeo was instructed by a Chinese intelligence operative in 2018 to create a fake consulting firm and post job listings on an online recruitment site. Yeo created the company using the same name as a prominent US consulting firm that conducts public and government relations, and received over 400 resumes.

About 90 per cent of these CVs were from US military and government personnel with security clearances, according to Yeo, who then sent them to Chinese intelligence operatives if he believed they would find them interesting.

Yeo also used a networking website to find people with resumes and job descriptions suggesting they were likely to have access to valuable non-public information. He found that once he contacted targets, the website would start suggesting additional potential contacts.

The Chinese flag flies behind a security camera at a Chinese consulate in the US. Photo: AP
“According to Yeo, the website’s algorithm was relentless,” the seven-page court documents stated. “Later, Yeo told US law enforcement that it felt almost like an addiction.”

Yeo’s work with Chinese intelligence began in early 2015 while studying at LKYSPP, when he travelled to Beijing to give a presentation on the political situation in Southeast Asia.
“After his presentation, Yeo was recruited by various individuals who claimed to represent PRC-based think tanks. These individuals offered Yeo money in exchange for political reports and information,” the court documents said.
Singaporean pleads guilty in US to working for Chinese intelligence
25 Jul 2020
View attachment 87365
Yeo was tasked to provide the Chinese with information about international political, economic, and diplomatic relations, initially focused on Southeast Asia but later more on the US.
Yeo also met operatives across China on more than 20 occasions. During one of his meetings at a private hotel room, he was tasked with obtaining non-public information about the US Department of Commerce, artificial intelligence, and the “trade war” between China and the United States.
To further his efforts, the Singaporean moved to Washington from January to July 2019, where he attended multiple events at think tanks to network, and built contacts with individuals from lobbying firms to defence contracting companies.
Yeo was eventually arrested in November that year when he returned to the US with plans to get a Pentagon official to provide more confidential information.

The Chinese flag flies over the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, US. Photo: AFP
Yeo’s case comes amid worsening relations between the
US and China
, and as part of the US Justice Department’s efforts to counter Chinese national security threats. Acting US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael R Sherwin, said as he announced the plea that the case showed how China can exploit non-Chinese nationals, the internet and the openness of American society to directly target financially vulnerable officials in the federal government’s backyard.
A former Singapore academic who asked not to be named said Yeo seemed to have an “inflated sense of his own importance and in need of recognition and validation”.
“In any case, I think the Chinese sure knew how to exploit their victims,” he said.
Huang Jing, Chinese-American academic expelled by Singapore, working in Beijing
17 Jun 2019
View attachment 87366
Echoing Bilahari’s point on how there could be more suspicion towards Singaporeans in the US, the former academic said there was already a growing concern that Beijing was using ethnic Chinese in the US to influence opinion and advance its interests.
“This case would suggest that those scholars were not being paranoid, and more worryingly for Singaporean academics in the US, or hoping to go to the US, they may come under greater scrutiny or be viewed with suspicion,” he said.
Dylan Loh, an assistant professor of social sciences at the Nanyang Technological University, felt that the Singapore government would be careful not to let its citizens be used by any foreign party, even though he felt the case would not substantially change Singapore’s relations with either the US or China.
“Singapore must be clear-eyed about the extent to which the Chinese state is prepared to exercise influence in various ways, and build safeguards in that regard,” he said. “I think others will judge Singapore based on its deeds and, I think, we have shown consistently that we are nobody’s stooge.”

For a diplomat. He is not very diplomatic and is just good at pissing others off.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Please lah, AMDK border security and intelligence personnel are more competent than your Sinkie ICA/ISA imbeciles.

They must have Dickson on their watchlist for quite some time.

At most you'll be questioned and your phone checked. But you won't be detained unless they already have evidence.

Absolutely agree. It was only a matter of time before arrest was made. Guess Trump expedited the arrest to serve his political interest.

 

[leeisphtui]

when you go to AMDK country for visit/holiday/business now you will be searched and your phone tracked because you are same passport as dickson

AMDK technology company now will treat you with as suspect

happy?

its more of a blemish on our squeaky clean image more than anything. i would not worry too much.

They might search our phones, if you have nothing to hide, just give it to them