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Russian authorities have revealed that it has had a Chinese agent in custody for the past year<\/strong><\/a>. The suspect, Tong Shengyong, allegedly tried to obtain information relating to surface-to-air missiles. From AFP:<\/p>\n

The FSB domestic security service said the case of Tong Shengyong was forwarded by prosecutors to the Moscow City Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“The investigation established that the Chinese national (was) working on assignment from the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China,” FSB said in a statement.<\/p>\n

It said Tong had posed as an interpreter for “official delegations” and tried to purchase data from Russian nationals. The espionage charge carries a prison sentence of 10 to 20 years.<\/p>\n

The S-300 system is an older version of Russian surface-to-air missiles that Moscow has produced since the Soviet era and has since replaced with the more modern S-400.<\/p>\n

Analysts said its last remaining secrets probably relate to its rare repair technology and spare parts — details that the Chinese suspect was allegedly looking into at the time of his arrest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

China has been a long-time purchaser of Russian arms, but may also be trying to copy Russian military technology.<\/strong><\/a> This is causing friction between the two nations. From The Guardian:<\/p>\n

Ruslan Pukhov, director of the centre for analysis of strategies and technologies, a defence thinktank in Moscow, said: “They [the Chinese] are trying to copy this system illegally. They’ve already copied a whole series of our weapons.<\/p>\n

“They’re trying to clone the S-300, to serve their interests and also to export. As I understand it, it’s not all working out. They probably wanted extra documentation to better deal with this task of reverse engineering.”<\/p>\n

A report<\/a> by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) released this week warned that the Sino-Russian relationship was growing increasingly uneasy given China’s international rise.<\/p>\n

“In the coming years, while relations will remain close at the diplomatic level, the two cornerstones of the partnership over the past two decades \u2013 military and energy co-operation \u2013 are crumbling,” the thinktank wrote. “As a result, Russia’s significance to China will continue to diminish.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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