‘Spy turtles’ and ‘spy fish’ being used to monitor Chinese waters, Beijing claims
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Ministry says on We Chat that animals fitted with sensors by foreign agencies are ‘collecting sensitive marine data’China’s ministry of state security has claimed that foreign espionage and intelligence agencies are using innovative new methods to monitor the country’s waters, including deploying “spy” animals fitted with sensors.In a post on the Chinese platform We Chat on Friday, the ministry warned that an “invisible secret war” was quietly playing out in the seas around China as foreign agencies were collecting sensitive data “through a variety of new spying devices” to produce underwater maps that pose a “serious threat to our national security”. Continue reading...