Drawing on MI6 reports and international cases, this essay examines China’s alleged use of “honey trap” espionage tactics and their impact on national security.
It highlights intelligence risks reported in the UK, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

“A country targeted by beautiful female spies will lose a great deal of its confidential information,” it warns.
January 9, 2018.
I have just discovered the following report.
The asterisks indicate my own comments.
[New Tang Dynasty Television News, November 21, 2015].
Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service MI6, in a report submitted to Prime Minister Cameron, pointed out that Chinese female spies seduce MI6 operatives through honey traps and extract classified information.
Officials of British intelligence stated that Chinese beauty spies pose a threat even greater than that of the extremist organization Islamic State.
According to many British media reports, Chinese authorities dispatched as many as one hundred attractive women to lure intelligence officers and seize secrets.
If the target did not succumb to temptation, traps were set and blackmail employed.
Internal MI6 documents revealed that MI6 members and their families are primary targets of Chinese intelligence operations.
Former MI6 officials involved in business or interests connected with China or Hong Kong are said to be the most valuable “prey” for Chinese intelligence.
Many former British operatives have already fallen victim to honey traps by Chinese female agents.
According to MI6 internal materials, former officials from other British government departments are also being targeted by Chinese intelligence activities.
Chinese legal expert Zhao Yuanming stated.
“As China’s economy has rapidly developed and demand has expanded in various sectors, it has become necessary to quickly obtain technological and military information from Western countries.However, since such information cannot be obtained through regular channels, these methods are being used for intelligence collection.”
In recent years, Chinese female spies have reportedly used honey traps to target foreign diplomats, high-ranking officials from Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, and political figures visiting China.
It would only demonstrate how ignorant Japan is about such operations to assume that the former MEXT vice-minister, who frequently visited entertainment establishments in Kabukicho and whose case I have mentioned several times, was not among their targets.
In 2011, in the case where three consular officials at the South Korean Consulate General in Shanghai leaked phone numbers of senior officials including the South Korean president, suspicion arose that they had fallen into the hands of female spies.
The three consuls were subsequently recalled.
In the same year, Taiwanese media reported that a Taiwanese army major had been entrapped by a female spy of the Chinese Communist Party, who was later revealed to be a specially appointed major in China’s Ministry of Public Security.
In March 2002, in the case of a Japanese diplomat at the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai who committed suicide, suspicion also arose that he had been ensnared by a Chinese female spy and pressured to provide confidential information, leading to his death.
Chinese legal expert Zhao Yuanming stated.
“The use of beautiful women or handsome men as spies is common.Because any kind of information can be obtained at low cost.What Britain has revealed this time is only the tip of the iceberg.Not only Britain, but the United States and Japan are facing similar problems.”
Zhao Yuanming pointed out that “a country targeted by beautiful spies will lose a great deal of its confidential information.”
He further stated.
“If we take military secrets as an example, billions or tens of billions are invested in developing and manufacturing new weapons, aircraft, and missiles.Yet in a single night such information can fall into other hands, allowing them to easily obtain advanced technologies.”
Last November, Britain’s The Times reported that Chinese intelligence agencies gather information by entrapping British officials through affairs and sexual relationships and by cultivating friendships.
Chinese authorities are believed to employ not only clerks and military intelligence officers but also large numbers of students and ordinary citizens for intelligence collection.
Wu Fan, editor-in-chief of the U.S.-based Chinese magazine China Affairs, stated.
“Normally intelligence agencies around the world collect information to defeat their adversaries and use various methods, including attractive women.But Chinese authorities use these methods particularly skillfully.They use the same tactics not only against Britain but also against Japan and South Korea.However, other countries are also using similar methods to counter Chinese intelligence.”
According to the book Jiang Zemin: The Man, when Jiang Zemin, then General Secretary of China, visited the former Soviet Union in May 1991, he was allegedly seduced by a Soviet female spy, an incident said to have later influenced his signing of unequal treaties with Russia that ceded more than one million square kilometers of Chinese territory.
Reported by New Tang Dynasty Television.