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Chinese Cartoon Warns Against 'Dangerous Love' With Foreigners Who May Be Spies
In a colorful, 16-panel cartoon called "Dangerous Love," China is warning female government workers that romancing handsome foreigner strangers can lead to heartbreak — and espionage.
Posters seen around Beijing show a cartoon government worker named Xiao Li striking up a relationship with a bespectacled, red-haired "visiting scholar." They share a romantic dinner and stroll through a leafy park. "Having a handsome, romantic, talented foreign boyfriend is pretty nice!" Li says to herself, according to The New York Times' translation.
But "pretty nice" turns to nightmarish after Li's new paramour persuades her to lend him internal government documents. Suddenly, the foreign boyfriend is nowhere to be found. Li weeps in front of two gruff police officers, who tell her she has a "shallow understanding of secrecy for a state employee," according to The Guardian.
"Dangerous Love" was posted in Beijing's subway and streets to mark National Security Education Day, which was "established after China passed a National Security Law in July outlining greater security efforts in 11 areas, including political, territorial, military, cultural and technological," the Times reports.
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(Score: 2) by jasassin on Saturday April 23 2016, @01:15AM
Now I'm never going to get a Chinese girlfriend. );
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 23 2016, @01:30AM
Many Chinese people go to the United States for university or jobs, and they won't see the street poster.
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(Score: 2) by jasassin on Saturday April 23 2016, @05:11AM
All hope is not lost! TY
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2016, @01:57AM
AFAIK holders of security clearances have to report contacts with foreigners, and having regular contacts may be grounds for denial of a security clearance.
(Score: 2) by CortoMaltese on Saturday April 23 2016, @02:04AM
Well to be honest it's smart to educate your public servants and workers about foreign spies, what the Chinese should've considered is the fact that opposing powers will probably prefer to use chinese-born spies.
Also some WWII posters:
digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc388/m1/1/med_res/
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/1e/b3/03/1eb30334bfc9a5b99d9ae243f050ab9a.jpg [pinimg.com]
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1369296.1370972388!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/std12n-3-web.jpg [nydailynews.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23 2016, @04:17AM
http://www.opsecprofessionals.org/posters.html [opsecprofessionals.org]
https://www.iad.gov/ioss/department/posters-10016.cfm [iad.gov]
http://www.cdse.edu/resources/posters.html [cdse.edu]
http://securitychecksmatter.blogspot.com/p/security-poster-library.html [blogspot.com]
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday April 26 2016, @07:32PM
I guess this is why the term 'frenemy' was created?
Man, can't trust those brunettes.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 23 2016, @03:10AM
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Wednesday April 27 2016, @09:09AM
the comic should have ended where they assume she was in league with the spy and is then executed. the truth is dangerous. ;)