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Questions over Chinese spy hang over Vladimir Putin visit
The arrest of a Chinese spy in Moscow has cast a cloud over Vladimir Putin's two-day visit to Beijing.
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrives at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Photo: EPA/JASON LEE
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Tun Sheniyun was arrested last October for allegedly trying to buy plans to the Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system. But perplexingly, the news of his arrest only emerged last week, in what appears to have been a deliberate leak by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).
"An investigation revealed that a Chinese citizen on assignment from the Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China was working as a translator for official delegations and was attempting to gather [ ...] documents on the anti-aircraft S-300 missile system from Russian citizens in exchange for money," reported the state-run RIA news agency, quoting an FSB statement.
It was not clear why Russia had chosen to publicise the arrest just ahead of Mr Putin's relationship-building trip to Beijing. However, Chinese analysts said the move may have been a shot across the bows from Moscow to Beijing. "Currently, Russia is far ahead of China in nuclear energy, military technology and aerospace," said Zhang Jianrong, a professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science. "But China is catching up, especially in weapons manufacture.
It is moving from buying finished products to only buying key components and trying to jointly develop products."That might be why Russia announced the arrest of this Chinese spy. They might want to warn China against trying to get away with thieving hi-tech military designs. Mr Putin might also want to push China into signing treaties against intellectual property theft, especially in the energy and military sectors".
China has already bought the S-300 missile system from Russia and has also built a similar system called HQ-9, which some say bears a striking resemblance. For its part, Russia has already upgraded its systems to the S-400, according to reports. Russian analysts said there is no question that China is regularly stealing Russian know-how but have poured scorn on inferior Chinese copies.
"China is actively stealing and is combining ours with Western technologies. That in itself is something very complex and creates something new," said Alexander Khramchikhin, a military analyst based in Moscow. In particular, the Russians accuse China of targeting Russia's new fifth-generation stealth fighter in order to build their own J-20 stealth plane. Anatoly Tsyganok, another Russian military analyst, said Chinese attempts to get hold of the technology behind Russia's S-300 missile defence system were driven by a desire to improve their own clones of the missiles which were substandard. He said: "The Chinese system they sell for export is considered to be inferior to the Russian one. Therefore in China they're interested in finding out the real situation with the S-300 so that they can bring their missiles up to standard."
Questions over Chinese spy hang over Vladimir Putin visit - Telegraph
The arrest of a Chinese spy in Moscow has cast a cloud over Vladimir Putin's two-day visit to Beijing.
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrives at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Photo: EPA/JASON LEE
______________________________________________________________
Tun Sheniyun was arrested last October for allegedly trying to buy plans to the Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system. But perplexingly, the news of his arrest only emerged last week, in what appears to have been a deliberate leak by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).
"An investigation revealed that a Chinese citizen on assignment from the Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China was working as a translator for official delegations and was attempting to gather [ ...] documents on the anti-aircraft S-300 missile system from Russian citizens in exchange for money," reported the state-run RIA news agency, quoting an FSB statement.
It was not clear why Russia had chosen to publicise the arrest just ahead of Mr Putin's relationship-building trip to Beijing. However, Chinese analysts said the move may have been a shot across the bows from Moscow to Beijing. "Currently, Russia is far ahead of China in nuclear energy, military technology and aerospace," said Zhang Jianrong, a professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science. "But China is catching up, especially in weapons manufacture.
It is moving from buying finished products to only buying key components and trying to jointly develop products."That might be why Russia announced the arrest of this Chinese spy. They might want to warn China against trying to get away with thieving hi-tech military designs. Mr Putin might also want to push China into signing treaties against intellectual property theft, especially in the energy and military sectors".
China has already bought the S-300 missile system from Russia and has also built a similar system called HQ-9, which some say bears a striking resemblance. For its part, Russia has already upgraded its systems to the S-400, according to reports. Russian analysts said there is no question that China is regularly stealing Russian know-how but have poured scorn on inferior Chinese copies.
"China is actively stealing and is combining ours with Western technologies. That in itself is something very complex and creates something new," said Alexander Khramchikhin, a military analyst based in Moscow. In particular, the Russians accuse China of targeting Russia's new fifth-generation stealth fighter in order to build their own J-20 stealth plane. Anatoly Tsyganok, another Russian military analyst, said Chinese attempts to get hold of the technology behind Russia's S-300 missile defence system were driven by a desire to improve their own clones of the missiles which were substandard. He said: "The Chinese system they sell for export is considered to be inferior to the Russian one. Therefore in China they're interested in finding out the real situation with the S-300 so that they can bring their missiles up to standard."
Questions over Chinese spy hang over Vladimir Putin visit - Telegraph
