AUCKLAND (Pacnews) — A former CIA adviser says China is spying on many island nations in the South Pacific.
Dr Paul Buchanan, a senior politics lecturer at New Zealand’s Auckland University, said intelligence gathering is undoubtedly part of the process of expanding China’s influence in the region.
He said China uses members of its expatriate community as spy agents to monitor areas of economic, political and military interest.
China, he added, is seeking to improve its historically poor intelligence capability in the Pacific.