Singaporean’s Ph.D Adviser Says He’s Glad Ex-Student Caught for Spying

Dickson Yeo had ‘hunger for being somebody,’ Huang Jing says
Chinese-American academic speaks to Bloomberg TV about case

Huang Jing, professor at the Beijing Language and Cultural University, discusses the Singaporean citizen who pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal agent for China in the U.S., the tensions between the U.S. and China. U.S.-China relationship and the closing of the U.S. Chengdu consulate. He speaks on “BloombergMarkets: China Open.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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By Bloomberg News

July 27, 2020 at 5:34 AM UTC

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July 27, 2020 at 11:47 AM UTC

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A Chinese-American academic linked to a Singaporean consultant who pleaded guilty to acting as a spy for Beijing said he was happy that his former student was apprehended by U.S. authorities.

Huang Jing confirmed to Bloomberg Television that he served as a Ph.D adviser to Dickson Yeo a few years ago, when both were at National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Yeo admitted Friday that he provided information to Chinese intelligence and knowingly recruited others in the U.S. to do the same, according to a U.S. Department of Justice statement.