Source: CNN
By Vivian Kam, CNN, Anna Kook and Georgia McCafferty, for CNN
(CNN)China’s government workers are being warned off dating handsome foreigners — because they may be potential James Bonds.
A 16-panel comic book-style poster that’s been widely displayed across Beijing tells the story of an attractive young female civil servant — Xiao Li or Little Li — who is wooed by a red-haired foreigner posing as a visiting scholar.
The scholar, named Dawei or David, showers her with compliments, red roses, fancy dinners and romantic walks in the park, and convinces the girl to provide him with internal documents from her government propaganda workplace.
Xiao Li initially declines to hand over the documents but David manages to convince her. Xiao Li is later taken away by security officials and the girl finds out that her boyfriend was a foreign spy.
Beijing has launched a new campaign this month to raise awareness about “national security” and the cartoon comes the same week Chinese state media reported that a man convicted of leaking more than 150,000 classified documents to an undisclosed foreign power had been sentenced to death.
With “Ministry of State Security” written at the bottom, the cartoon poster appeared to be part of a range of more than 100 promotional materials released to coincide with China’s first “National Security Education Day” on April 15, according to a notice posted on one Beijing district website.
The poster also provided a hotline to call. CNN called the number four times but no-one answered — save for an automatic welcome message.
The posters have to be posted on all bulletin boards and community leaders will be trained with “counter espionage knowledge,” the notice said.
“Everyone in the community should be urged to increase their sensitivity and level of awareness to national security, as well as be political sensitive.”
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