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China Using Fake Job Offers to Recruit Spies, Five Eyes Warns
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World·6/4/2026AI summary

China Using Fake Job Offers to Recruit Spies, Five Eyes Warns

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned that China is using fake job recruitment schemes on platforms like LinkedIn to trick government and military personnel into revealing sensitive information. Operatives pose as recruiters, offering jobs to gather privileged military, political, and economic data, with targets including security clearance holders and academics. China has rejected the allegations as 'malicious slander'.

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Times of India
How Japan’s new economic model could inspire others to ‘look east’
NEWS
5/9/2026

How Japan’s new economic model could inspire others to ‘look east’

In the 1980s, then Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad launched his “Look East” policy, urging his country and others in Southeast Asia to emulate the state-led economic development models of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, rather than those of market-dominated Western nations. China subsequently emerged as a prime example of state-led development, but Japan is now leaning again towards a more dirigiste model under the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, not only in...

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SCMP Economy