Re:Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble
by paradite on Friday June 30, 2017 @11:41AM
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> Li Fengzhi, a longtime employee of the Chinese Ministry of State Security who came to the United States in 2003 as a graduate student at the University of Denver, said that the Chinese government did not see the group so much as a spying operation, but rather as a propaganda and “information collection organization.”
I could not find any other sources to cross-reference this information. All the information that I could find about Li Fengzhi (wikileaks, washingtonpost) talks about his link to Ministry of State Security (MSS), and make no mentions of comments made on the student groups. So it would appear that he was talking about MSS when talking about "the group".
Of course I could be wrong and NYT had the first hand information on that, but the entire Li Fengzhi story ended in 2010 so it is not likely that NYT had the information without publishing it before 2017.
I could not find any other sources to cross-reference this information. All the information that I could find about Li Fengzhi (wikileaks, washingtonpost) talks about his link to Ministry of State Security (MSS), and make no mentions of comments made on the student groups. So it would appear that he was talking about MSS when talking about "the group".
- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/19/exclusive-ch...
- http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/09/li_fengzhi...
- http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/10/li_fengzhi...
- https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/12/1231001_re-spytalk-li-...
Of course I could be wrong and NYT had the first hand information on that, but the entire Li Fengzhi story ended in 2010 so it is not likely that NYT had the information without publishing it before 2017.