
https://m-economictimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/not-just-india-and-us-chinas-behaviour-is-becoming-a-problem-for-its-friends-too/amp_articleshow/77365660.cms
It did not involve the United States or another rival of China, but Russia, whose security services accused a prominent arctic scientist of selling classified data on technologies for detecting submarines.
Meanwhile a court in Kazakhstan in October convicted the Central Asia nation’s preeminent China specialist of espionage, a move widely interpreted at the time as a warning against increased meddling by the superpower next door.