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This report uses rumors of Huang Zhen-hsun’s extramarital affair as an introduction to review the Chinese intelligence agency’s famous “Madame Butterfly” Xi Peipu case, which revealed the process of seducing and infiltrating diplomats and leaking long-term secrets.
Huida (NVIDIA CEOJen-Hsun Huang He admitted that he was unfaithful to his wife, and Alice Huang, the woman with whom he publicly shared the same frame in the past, was suspected of being from China.detective Over the past few decades, China’s “honey trap” intelligence infiltration operations in Western countries have received renewed attention from the outside world.
Korean media JoongAng Ilbo reported that the most representative case of China’s intelligence agencies is undoubtedly the “Madame Butterfly” Shi Pu Pu case that caused an international sensation in the 1960s.
In Beijing in 1964, Bernard Boursicot, a diplomat working at the French Embassy in China, met Peking opera actor Shi Peipu at a Christmas party.
Xi Pipu lied that she was actually a woman because her family wanted to give birth to a boy, so she was raised as a man since childhood, and then the two had a relationship. Later, Shi Peipu falsely claimed to have given birth to a son from the Xinjiang region.
Boursicot later testified that Chinese intelligence agents threatened to prevent him from meeting with Xi Peipu and demanded that he provide information. When he served at the Beijing Embassy from 1969 to 1972, and when he was posted at the Ulaanbaatar Consulate in Mongolia from 1977 to 1979, he leaked at least 150 and up to 500 confidential government documents to the Chinese side.
In 1983, Boursicot was arrested by the French counter-intelligence agency. Then she discovered that her boyfriend of nearly 20 years was actually a man, and that he had also attempted suicide in prison.
Boursicot admitted in court that the two often had sex in dark environments, and Shi Peipu was very shy and never allowed him to carefully examine her physical condition. “I never saw his genitals fully. He was very shy and I thought it was Chinese custom.”
In 1986, both men were sentenced to six years in prison each and pardoned the following year.
This true story was later adapted into the 1988 stage play and 1993 film “M. Butterfly” starring John Lone.
Shi Peipu died in Paris in 2009 at the age of 70.
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Because Huang Renxun was reported to have admitted being unfaithful to his wife, the outside world again focused on China’s previous cases of using “honey trap” to seek love and infiltrate Western countries, the most representative of which was Shi Peipu’s case.
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Boursicot met Shi Peipu in Beijing and developed a relationship. Later, Chinese intelligence agents threatened to prevent the two from meeting and were forced to provide the documents. During his subsequent tenures in Beijing and Ulaanbaatar, he continued to leak a large number of secrets.
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It was only after Boursicot’s arrest in 1983 that she learned that her lover was actually a man. In 1986, both were sentenced to six years in prison and pardoned the next year. This incident was later adapted into the stage play and film “M. Butterfly”.
