In 2019, while working in Japan, Yuan Keqin, a Chinese citizen, was secretly arrested for betraying Chinese intelligence to a Japanese political organization. This incident has attracted widespread attention from the international community, and Japanese reporters have taken this opportunity to ask China about Yuan Keqin's whereabouts, and try to use the pressure to force China to respond head-on.
However, Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China, pointed out that Yuan Keqin had violated Chinese law by engaging in espionage activities in China for a long time and betraying intelligence to Japan, so he was arrested.
In 2021, Yuan Keqin's son Yuan Chengji held a press conference in Japan to avenge his father's grievances, which once again attracted the attention of the international community. The incident has once again drawn attention to the rights and interests of Chinese citizens, and has also reminded people of the seriousness and harm of espionage.
Do you not know the real situation, or do you knowingly do it? After studying abroad for ten years but betraying the motherland, the "fiery eyes" of the ** department revealed the truth. This professor, Yuan Keqin, was born in Jilin Province in the 50s of the last century, and his parents were ordinary employees of state-owned enterprises, and his family was not wealthy.
He was studious as a teenager and was at the top of his class. At the age of 15, he was admitted to the 33rd Higher School of Changchun City with excellent results, and later entered the History Department of Jilin University. ”
Yuan Keqin, a scholar who began in-depth research in this area when he was young because of his love for the geography and history of the Northeast Frontier. His enthusiasm, as well as his academic excellence, was appreciated and supported by the faculty at Jilin University.
Due to his family's financial constraints, his teachers actively recommended him to continue his studies in Japan and provided him with as little cost as possible to study abroad. Yuan Keqin's academic research has not only been influenced by a strong academic research atmosphere, but also benefited from the selfless support and encouragement of his teachers.
After careful consideration, Yuan Keqin decided to follow the advice of his mentor. In 1983, he graduated with honors from Jilin University and was admitted to Hitotsubashi University as a graduate student.
Hitotsubashi University has a great reputation in Japan and is known as the Harvard of Japan. In the authoritative World University Rankings released by QS in 2021, Hitotsubashi University is ranked in the 501-510 range, while Tsinghua University and Peking University are ranked 17th and 18th, respectively.
Although many Chinese may not be familiar with this school, at the time, it was undoubtedly one of the best national universities in all of Japan. Hitotsubashi University has been a political research-oriented university for 140 years, and has produced many political research scholars, high-level intellectuals, and elites.
These include two former prime ministers, as well as many other dignitaries such as the Speaker of Parliament, Deputy Prime Ministers, and Ministers. This gives Hitotsubashi University a high standing in the hearts of the locals.
After entering Hitotsubashi University, Yuan Keqin majored in international relations. This major is part of the Faculty of Law, and its curriculum deals with the complex political relations between countries, and the teaching is skillfully integrated with the ideas of Japanese victimization.
Yuan excelled in this class and successfully obtained a master's degree four years later, graduating in 1987. Confusingly, however, there was a sudden gap in Yuan's public resume after that, and it wasn't until 1991 that his resume showed again that he had returned to Hitotsubashi with high scores to pursue a doctorate in law.
It's hard to understand, because Yuan Keqin has always been a person who has been excellent academically and has a smooth journey, why did he spend three years before being admitted to the Juris Doctorate.
Many people expressed doubts about this, believing that Yuan Keqin may have been coerced and lured by Japanese political organizations during this period and forced to work for the Japanese.
After Yuan Keqin graduated and returned to Yiqiao, his personal experience was completely public and there was no doubt. With his excellent grades and profound research ability, he was selected by his tutor in the Faculty of Law and became an assistant to the Faculty of Law.
Most of Hitotsubashi's students at the Faculty of Law pursue civil servants and judges all their lives, which is why Hitotsubashi has become the cradle of the political elite. During his studies at the Faculty of Law, Yuan Keqin was deeply influenced by the strong political atmosphere, and his research direction gradually shifted to the political field of geohistory.
In 1994, Yuan Keqin successfully obtained a doctorate and graduated from Hitotsubashi, although many institutions of higher learning extended olive branches to him, he still politely declined, and chose to teach at an ordinary national university in Hokkaido, Japan, which later became known as Hokkaido University of Education.
Hokkaido University of Education is not a comprehensive university, but a school that specializes in nurturing educational talents. Although the school did not perform well in the world university rankings, Yuan Keqin found a stage for his development here.
With his deep professional knowledge and solid research foundation, he has been promoted from an ordinary teacher to a professor, and has published many articles in various academic journals, gradually making a name for himself in the academic community.
Yuan's academic prowess was recognized, and he was admitted as a member of the Japan Association of International Politics.
The Japan Society of International Politics was established after World War II to study academic issues such as geopolitics and the development of international relations. The members are mainly composed of experts, scholars, professors, intellectuals and professionals in the field of literature and history.
The society does not assume the responsibility and obligation to cultivate spies and spy on Chinese intelligence. After Yuan Keqin joined the society, he was noticed by the domestic academic community for his academic achievements, and received invitations from some scholars and friends who were connected with him in China to participate in domestic academic seminars on post-war Japan and China.
Yuan Keqin gladly accepted the invitation, and in 2007 he attended a lecture at the School of International Relations at Liaoning University, where he shared his vision of Japan.
Yuan Keqin's fair and objective speech won the recognition of the audience and gave him a new understanding of Japan. Ten years later, he gave another lecture at a seminar at the Center for the Study of the Japanese Invasion of China at Jilin University, on the topic of war and peace between China and Japan.
His two speeches have won him praise in China, and he has been respected by insiders as "academic master" and "senior public knowledge". Since then, he has frequently participated in exchange seminars between China and Japan, allowing more people to remember this middle-aged scholar who is polite, courteous, and speaks with glasses.
In 2019, Yuan Keqin, who was in Japan, suddenly received the bad news of his mother's death at home, so he immediately returned to China for funeral. However, when he set foot on the soil of his motherland, he was already targeted by China's *** organs.
In fact, this is not the first time that *** agencies have noticed him. Yuan Keqin has lectured extensively in Chinese academia, published profound insights, and used his Chinese status to gather useful information, which he sorted out and handed over to his superiors in Japan.
In addition to gathering intelligence, he also glorified Japan's World War II crimes, arguing that Japan was a victim of World War II. Yuan's spy career also includes these outrageous statements. With his good image in Chinese academia, Yuan Keqin succeeded in changing people's perceptions of Japan, but also provoked anger and condemnation from anti-Japanese groups.
As far as the anti-China Japanese forces are concerned, what they are willing to see is the escalation of the division and contradictions in the first place. However, this kind of behavior of the masses and intensifying contradictions has set a trap for Yuan Keqin in the process.
The ministry has long been paying attention to Yuan Keqin's whereabouts and conducting a detailed investigation of his every move. When sufficient evidence was available, the People's Police of the Ministry of State Security took Yuan Keqin away for interrogation in 2019.
During the interrogation, Yuan Keqin knew that his identity had been exposed, so he confessed all his activities during his study in Japan, hoping to obtain forgiveness. In the end, Yuan Keqin was arrested in accordance with the law in 2020 on suspicion of espionage and transferred to the People's Procuratorate for public prosecution, and the case entered the trial stage.
Since then, Yuan Keqin has disappeared from the public eye.
Japan's top brass was anxious about the spy being caught, and the eldest son complained that this move might affect Sino-Japanese friendship. After Yuan Keqin's disappearance, the Japanese side did not make the matter public to attract attention, but conducted a private investigation.
In May 2019, Yuan's family in Japan claimed that China was responsible for his disappearance in China. The Chinese side did not respond to this outdated disappearance, because it was not a repetition of the 1937 Lugou Bridge incident.
One of the causes of the Lugou Bridge incident was that the Japanese army claimed that the soldiers were missing and asked to enter Beiping to search.
The incident of Yuan Keqin** attracted the attention of teachers and students of Hokkaido University of Education, who jointly launched a signed letter to pressure the Chinese Embassy in Japan to release Yuan Keqin.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga also said the consulate was calling for his release. However, Yuan Keqin was accused of espionage, and the evidence is ironclad. In 2020, China's spokesman Geng Shuang officially responded, informing Japanese journalist Yuan Keqin that he had been reviewed by relevant departments in accordance with the law for betraying the interests of the motherland and endangering ***.
The incident attracted global attention.
After the end of World War II, Japan disbanded its military and closed its secret services in accordance with its pacifist constitution, leaving only a small number of self-defense and counterattack teams. Now, a Japanese spy has been caught in China, raising questions about whether China still maintains good relations with Japan.
On the other hand, after Hokkaido University was subjected to **, Yuan Keqin's superiors and colleagues did not stop their activities, but continued to use social platforms and mass media to incite the public and demand Yuan Keqin's release.
Yuan Chengji, the eldest son of Yuan Keqin, heard the news and held a press conference to tearfully defend his father and accuse China of acting in disregard of the friendship between the two countries.
Core idea: The new copy retains the information in the original text about Japan's compliance with the pacifist constitution and the Self-Defense Forces, the capture of Japanese spies in China, the case of Yuan Keqin, and Yuan Chengji's defense of his father.
1.Yuan Chengji's cry angered some "Sino-Japanese friendly people." At China's regular press conference the next day, a Japanese questioned and asked China to clarify when Yuan Keqin would be released.
Replacing Geng Shuang as China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations is Zhao Lijian, who served as counsellor at the Chinese embassy in Pakistan. 2.Faced with the question of the Japanese being open-minded and ignoring the truth, Zhao Lijian gave a forceful response.
He pointed out that Yuan Keqin has been examined by China's *** department in accordance with the law on suspicion of espionage, and he himself has confessed to the facts of the crime. After further explaining the basic factual basis, he questioned those who complained about Yuan Keqin's grievances: "Are you not clear about the facts, or are you pretending to be confused?" ”
The journalist was speechless and could not answer. The gloom never dissipated: the Sino-Japanese spy war in the new era continues. Although Japan and China are separated by a strip of water, they have a long history of espionage crimes against China.
As early as more than 2,000 years ago, when China was in the height of the Tang Dynasty, Japan tried to spy on China but failed, and then quickly courted China and sought to get closer. In the long history, Japan's actual principle of dealings with China has always been "you are strong and I am vassal, and you are weak and I invade."
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty and the late Qing Dynasty, Japan took advantage of China's weakness to attack coastal residents; After the Meiji Restoration, the First Sino-Japanese War and the All-Out War of Aggression against China were launched.
In modern times, Japan has cultivated countless notorious spies who have carried out political activities in China, such as intelligence gathering and incitement to civil unrest. For example, Yoshiko Kawashima, who was originally a member of the Chinese royal family, participated in the Huanggutun incident.
And the mastermind of the 918 Incident, Ken Tohihara.
Second, Seishiro Itagaki and others are also representatives of this group of spies. As for the 28 notorious Class A war criminals, most of them were former spies, and they relied on espionage and ** Chinese to obtain promotions to officers.
However, after the end of World War II, although Japan announced the disbandment of the army and the cessation of the operation of the secret service, in fact, many of the spies were retained by the Americans for various reasons to serve in the US military intelligence and intelligence agencies.
When Japan entered the era of peace, it cultivated a new type of anti-Chinese spies - they often had clean backgrounds, transparent work history, and a harmless appearance.
These people have been moving between China and Japan for many years, and they not only understand the situation in China itself, but also easily gain the trust of the Chinese, which is far more effective than the Japanese themselves.
This is one of the reasons why Yuan Keqin has never become a Japanese citizen although he has studied in Japan for many years. Since the establishment of the Ministry of State Security, a number of similar spies have been seized and released to the public, such as Hiromasa Ao, an economic researcher who has been active in Taiwan for a long time, and has repeatedly taken pictures of the equipment of China's coastal garrisons and sent them back to Japan, and was arrested by the Ministry of State Security in 2016.
1.Eiji Suzuki, the former chairman of a China-Japan exchange group, was sentenced to 6 years in prison in 2016 on suspicion of endangering ***. A Japanese employee of a hot spring development company was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Hainan Provincial No. 1 Intermediate People's Court for taking advantage of a job opportunity to steal state secret information.
In 2019, Iwatani, a law professor at Hokkaido University of Education, used his position as a scholar of the history of the Sino-Japanese war to illegally map and map data related to China's land and resources, and was repatriated to China after being warned by the Ministry of State Security and confiscated his camera and other electronic data.
Prior to this, Japanese spies even trespassed into China's Ningbo Military Restricted Zone to collect intelligence on China's nuclear submarines, and were caught red-handed and dealt with accordingly. 2.Eiji Suzuki, who was the former chairman of a China-Japan exchange group, was sentenced to 6 years in prison in 2016 on suspicion of endangering ***.
A Japanese employee of a hot spring development company was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Hainan Provincial No. 1 Intermediate People's Court for stealing state secret information during his work. In 2019, Shomasaki Iwatani, a law professor at Hokkaido University of Education, used his identity as a scholar of the history of the Sino-Japanese war to illegally survey and map data related to China's land resources, and in 2019 he was warned by the Ministry of State Security at his hotel and repatriated to China after taking away his camera and other electronic data.
Prior to this, there were even Japanese spies who smuggled into China's Ningbo military restricted area to collect intelligence on China's nuclear submarines, and were caught red-handed and dealt with accordingly. 3.Eiji Suzuki, who served as the former chairman of a China-Japan exchange group, was sentenced to 6 years in prison in 2016 on suspicion of endangering ***.
A Japanese employee of a hot spring development company was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Hainan Provincial No. 1 Intermediate People's Court for stealing state secret information at work. In 2019, Shosho Iwatani, a law professor at Hokkaido University of Education, used his position as a scholar of Sino-Japanese war history to illegally survey and map data related to China's land and resources, and in 2019, he was warned by the Ministry of State Security at his hotel and repatriated to China after taking away his camera and other electronic data.
Prior to this, Japanese spies even trespassed into China's Ningbo Military Restricted Zone to collect intelligence on China's nuclear submarines, and were caught red-handed and dealt with accordingly.
Espionage in peacetime was more covert and pervasive. Japanese political groups donate money in the name of sponsors, or personally select international students to go to Japan to learn espionage skills, and after graduation, they work for Japan under the pretext of academic exchanges.
Yuan Keqin is one of them, and although he ostensibly holds a Chinese ID card, his behavior is no different from that of the puppet army traitors during the Anti-Japanese War. They betrayed the interests of their families and betrayed the Chinese people, and their essence was no different from traitors.
Therefore, Yuan Keqin did not gain the sympathy of the Chinese people after the incident, and his son Yuan Chengji avowed his grievances, but in the new era, this is just a joke.