In a scenario worthy of “The Spy Who Shagged Me,” WikiLeaks cables from September 2007 reveal that Chinese Minister of Finance Jin Renquing resigned because he’d been trapped in a romantic ‘honeypot’ with a Taiwanese intelligence operative. In August 2007, when Chinese officials announced announced that Jin Renqing was stepping down, their claim was that “personal reasons” caused his resignation. However according classified US diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks, the Jin Renqing was actually involved romantically with a woman also linked to other prominent Chinese officials. It is alleged that this woman was an operative and “a promiscuous socialite” for the Taiwanese Intelligence services.
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