The Chinese telecom is worth more than $120 billion. But for how long? Western intelligence agencies say Huawei will inevitably act in the interests of China’s intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security. Now sanctions imposed by the Trump administration will effectively cut off Huawei from the world’s semi-conductor market. Without the basic components of...
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China’s MSS Penetrated CIA, Says Justice Department
Russia gets America’s attention but Chinese intelligence gets America’s secrets. A new criminal case shows that Chinese intelligence penetrated the CIA via two former CIA officers. One was Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, who went from being a CIA spy to MSS informant. According to court documents, Ma began working for the CIA in 1982, maintained...
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China’s ‘Entrepreneurial’ Approach to Espionage
Whereas U.S. intelligence agencies collect information for counterterrorism and military operations abroad, China’s spy services focus on obtaining intellectual property and implementing social controls. From a review of “Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer” on Cipher Brief. The chapter on economic espionage is the longest, and is enlightening both to the scale of Chinese activities,...
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China’s Intelligence Service Warns of Backlash over Coronavirus
Reuters admits that it has not seen this report generated by China’s Ministry of State Security but says a source has described its findings: in the wake of the pandemic, China is expecting the worst, geopolitically speaking, perhaps even war with the United States. The MSS assess that Beijing faces a wave of anti-China sentiment...
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Apple, VW, Nike and Other Western Brands Benefit from China’s Forced Labor Camps
In a new report, “Uyghurs for Sale,” the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) documents how the mass transfer of Uighur and other ethnic minorities from region of Xinjiang to factories across the country benefits Western business. Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of...