China Targeted Fed to Build Informant Network and Access Data, Probe Finds
By Kate O’Keeffe and Nick Timiraos, WSJ, July 26, 2022The investigation by Senate Republicans found that the decadelong effort included detaining a Fed economist in China
China tried to build a network of informants inside the Federal Reserve system, at one point threatening to imprison a Fed economist during a trip to Shanghai unless he agreed to provide nonpublic economic data, a congressional investigation found.
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