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Boom in Chinese forged documents turns into espionage issue

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Material presented during a press conference for an operation against a cross-border criminal network trafficking forged documents, at police headquarters in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, on 20 September 2023.
Material presented during a press conference for an operation against a cross-border criminal network trafficking forged documents, at police headquarters in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, on 20 September 2023. © Jelly Tse/SCMP via Reuters Connect

China's fake documents market has moved well beyond local ID mills into a cyber, transnational network that has alerted China's state security organs.

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