diplomat suicide

China sticking to its story on envoy’s death – The Daily Yomiuri

From Yomiuri Shimbun: Although the Foreign Ministry has strengthened counterespionage measures for diplomats posted overseas following the bitter lesson it learned from the suicide of an official at the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai, Japan and China remain at odds over what really happened to him. The Japanese side insists that the official was blackmailed […]

China ‘blackmailed’ Japanese diplomat – AP

From AP, via Aljazeera.Net: Japan has revealed that one of its diplomats, who committed suicide in Shanghai, had been set up with a woman by Chinese intelligence agents in a blackmail scam to obtain classified information. Describing the scandal, Taro Aso, the Japanese foreign minister, said: “They approached him, offering to arrange a sexy woman […]

China, Japan trade insults over diplomat’s suicide – AP

From Ap, via The Taipei Times: China and Japan accused each other of twisting the facts in the death of a Japanese consulate worker in Shanghai, threatening to prolong a diplomatic spat that has heightened tensions between the Asian rivals. Japan’s Foreign Ministry yesterday rebutted claims by China that work-related stress had driven the man […]

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