No longer content with mass surveillance of their ethnic minority populations, the Chinese authorities have begun cybersurveillance of visitors to the northwestern province of Xinjiang. according to the New York Times. The Times reports that travelers, tourists and visitors to Xinjiang are now being required to turn over all of their electronic devices to the...
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China’s All-Seeing Spy Agency
From Top World Intelligence Agencies MSS is responsible for China’s foreign intelligence and counterintelligence mission. Despite reports of internal turmoil, the Chinese intelligence has had numerous successes. In the field of economic espionage, the FBI considers China the biggest threat to the United States. In December 2018 U.S. prosecutors charged two MSS agents for their role...
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Why China Leads the Intelligence Revolution and the U.S. Lags
The Chinese understood first that technology has made human spying both difficult and anachronistic. The U.S. spent it intelligence dollars on counterterrorism (fighting jihadists around the world). China invested in technology and economic espionage. This from an insightful essay at Strategy Page, a military affairs web site. China had the money, the tech and the...
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U.S. Considers a Human Rights Policy in Xinjang
Should the Trump administration sanction Hikvision, a Chinese facial recognition firm deeply involved in the suppression of the Uighur people in Xinjang province? “Taking this step would be a tangible signal to both U.S. and foreign companies that the U.S. government is looking carefully at what is happening in Xinjiang and is willing to take...
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How China Could Retaliate For Huawei Ban
As the Trump administration seeks to banish the Chinese telecom Huawei from U.S. markets, China has a potent possible weapons to strike back: control of the supply of rare-earth minerals, crucial to the manufacture of oil refining, ear buds, wind turbines, and electric cars. According to Ryan Castilloux, a strategic metals consultant quoted in Foreign...