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Online vitriol has targeted the country’s richest man, erasing billions of dollars of his company’s market value, despite Beijing’s courtship of entrepreneurs.

Former chairman Chen Xuyuan accepted millions in return for help with contracting, investment options and event management, state media report court as saying
The former chief of China’s national football association, Chen Xuyuan, has been sentenced to life in prison for accepting bribes, state media reported on Tuesday, after one of the biggest anti-corruption probes in the sport in years.
The severe sentence for Chen, 67, concludes an inquiry into high-level football officials in China in a sport that has long grappled with corruption, which fans have blamed for the perpetual under performance of the national team.

While diplomatic rows are inevitable, the priority is to keep channels open, and engage with Beijing about the climate crisis
Once upon a time Britain would have sent a gunboat up the . That would teach those Chinese a lesson. To hear some MPs talk about Beijing’s espionage activities, you would think gunboats were already on their way.
Of course, it is malicious and hurtful for a foreign state patently to hack into Britain’s Electoral Commission and target senior parliamentarians – as the government on Monday . It is equally malicious to fabricate MPs’ emails and use a Commons researcher as an informant. No less evil is the sown among Britain’s 150,000 Chinese students by agents of Beijing, albeit tolerated by British universities greedy for money.
Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist

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The US alleges the individuals were working as a front for Beijing in an indictment and sanctions announcement
Hackers backed by China’s government spy agency have been accused by the US and UK of conducting a years-long cyber-attack campaign, targeting politicians, journalists and businesses.
The operation saw political dissidents and critics of China targeted by sophisticated phishing campaigns, according to the US, which resulted in some emails systems and networks being compromised.

Chinese hacking group APT 31 has been accused by UK and US officials of targeting critics of Beijing, while New Zealand’s systems have also been attacked
The US and UK have imposed sanctions on individuals and groups that they say targeted politicians, journalists and critics of Beijing in an extensive cyber espionage campaign – allegedly operated by an arm of China’s ministry of state security.
The scale of the operation was revealed on Monday, although some of the attacks have been previously reported on. On Tuesday, for a 2021 cyber-attack that infiltrated sensitive government computer systems.

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