How Chinese spies are hunting down & recruiting Brits from UK unis to steal secrets for Xi in three chilling steps

THE SUN

CHINA is using an “elite” army of spies to hunt down and recruit Brits from UK unis to steal secrets, it has been warned.

Using a three-pronged approach, Chinese spies “befriend” students studying degrees such as engineering or IT and offer them glitzy trips to China – before convincing them to spill UK secrets, one intelligence expert said.

It comes after an alleged “Chinese spy” was arrested in March after reportedly passing top secret parliamentary documents to China.

And MI5 has previously warned Chinese agents may be using “sex and cash” to influence UK officials and political figureheads in an effort to steal secrets from the West.

But it’s also feared Xi Jinping’s minions could be infiltrating Britain’s universities in a bid to influence and recruit spies for the Communist regime – and steal state secrets.

Professor Anthony Glees, an intelligence expert from the University of Buckingham, outlined three steps Chinese spies would likely use to snare unsuspecting British students.

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