Category Archives: Intelligence

2023: After Qin Gang Security Scandal, Tightening Oversight of PRC Foreign Affairs Workers

Posted on 11/04/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

After the sudden disappearance into incognito of (after a two-month delay, now former) PRC Foreign Minister Qin Gang (the PRC Foreign Ministry wouldn’t say just what happened to their Minister) apparently to the Party shuanggui report to a designated place … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC Defense Worker Arrested Two Years Ago by MSS as US Spy

Posted on 10/22/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

《今日说法》 22 Oct Chinese Central Television (CCTV) program 迷失境外 Legal Report on 2021 arrest of suspected US spy in Sichuan. Hou, a PRC defense industry worker, had been a visiting scholar at a US university and was asked by US … Continue reading →

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1980s-90s: Soviet/Russian Intelligence Internal Rivalries and the Russian State

Posted on 10/09/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

From Russian writer Oleg Grechenevsky rejected-in-Russia and now online book “Origins of Our “Democratic” Regime on KGB/Soviet/Russian power struggles.  Grechenevsky contacted me about his online book last year and I translated a portion of his very long work as “A Russian … Continue reading →

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2023 Red Flag: China’s Self-Reliant Opening to the World

Posted on 07/27/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Over the past decade, considerations of security in foreign trade and international have gotten increased attention for a number of reasons. A major preoccupation in recent years, global terrorism, is getting less attention. Secretary Xi in a March 2023 speech … Continue reading →

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2006: How the Intelligence Services Took Over in Russia

Posted on 05/20/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Returning to Oleg Grechenevsky’s mammoth online book The Origins of Our “Democratic” Regime [original title ИСТОКИ НАШЕГО “ДЕМОКРАТИЧЕСКОГО” РЕЖИМА] on KGB/Soviet/Russian power struggles. on the political evolution of the late Soviet Union and the early Russian Federation, here in part … Continue reading →

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2010: A Russian Perspective on the Strategy and Tactics of PRC Intelligence Agencies

Posted on 05/15/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

DeepL and ChatGPT3.5 translated from Glazunov’s The Chinese Threat. The Chinese translation I checked my self; the Russian is beyond my fading one year of Russian — I did check it all over to make sure that it made sense, … Continue reading →

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2010: Glazunov on Chinese Spies in Russia

Posted on 05/14/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Another translation from excepts of Russian books and articles about PRC intelligence operations inside the Russian Federation. This one by O.N. Glazunov was published in 2013. The publisher promotes the book thus: “What goals does China set for itself in … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC National Security Day — Beware Intelligence Agency Pitches While Abroad

Posted on 04/28/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

April 15 is tax day in the USA but in China it is the annual National Security Education Day. That day PRC media publicizes some recent successes in PRC counter-intelligence work as examples and warnings to others. See also: While … Continue reading →

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2021: Q&A May PRC Min State Security Employees Marry? Do they have Secret Identities?

Posted on 04/14/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This 2021 article on the PRC news portal Sougou below confirms that PRC intelligence agencies have the authority under Chinese law to compel PRC citizens to cooperate with them in their intelligence work. That requirement is in the PRC intelligence … Continue reading →

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2023: MSS Think Tank on “Effects of the Ukraine Crisis and Lessons Learned”

Posted on 04/08/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This overview from the PRC Ministry of State Security think tank — the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) — can provide insight into some Chinese perspectives on the Ukraine-Russia war and possibly on some of the less sensitive information … Continue reading →

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