China professor of Hokkaido university confessed to spying: Beijing

China said Thursday it has detained a prominent Chinese scholar at a Hokkaido university for suspected espionage, claiming he has confessed to the crime."The facts of the case are clear and the evidence is conclusive," Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said during a regular press briefing, stressing that Yuan Keqing, a professor of East Asian political history at the Hokkaido University of Education, is a Chinese citizen.Details of the alleged espionage were not disclosed.Yuan has not been in contact with the university since mid-June, after he left for China to attend the funeral of h…READ FULL ARTICLE