At a meeting the next day, Sun Lijun, head of China’s domestic-security force, confirmed that China’s government was monitoring the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong at Malaysia’s request, including “full scale residence/office/device tapping, computer/phone/web data retrieval, and full operational surveillance,” according to the Malaysian summary. “Sun says that they will establish all links that WSJ HK has with Malaysia-related individuals and will hand over the wealth of data to Malaysia through ‘back channels’ once everything is ready,” the summary reads. It was unclear whether China
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