Singapore spy case: can Beijing leverage overseas Chinese in struggle with US?

Soon after Singaporean Dickson Yeo pleaded guilty in a US court on July 24 to providing information to Chinese intelligence and recruiting others to do the same, social media was abuzz with people sharing their recollections of him.Yeo, 39, also known as Yeo Jun Wei, was a PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.One post was by his former schoolmate American citizen Will Nguyen, who made international headlines when he was deported from…