Tag Archives: Intelligence

2025: PRC Cybersecurity Association Warns of Repeated US Cyber Attacks Against Universities, Defense Contractors

Posted on 08/24/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

An August 1, 2025 notice from the Cybersecurity Association of China 【中国网络空间安全协会】warned of attacks by US intelligence agencies on China. The Cyber Security Association of China (CSAC) is a national, non-profit industry association founded in 2016. CSAC is not a … Continue reading →

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2025 VOA Another Retired Taiwan Officer Leaks Secrets to the PRC; PRC Recruits Even Lower-Ranking Officers

Posted on 03/12/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

VOA “Another Case of Leaked Secrets by Retired Taiwanese Military Officers: CCP’s Infiltration Reaches Lower-Ranking Officers” 美國之音 台湾退役军官再爆泄密案 中共渗透触角延伸至低阶军官 March 13, 2025 See also: Taipei — Cases of retired Taiwanese military officers being recruited by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) … Continue reading →

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2025: Taiwan National Security Bureau on PRC Spies

Posted on 01/13/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

On January 12, 2025 Taiwan ROC National Security Bureau issued a report on the uptick in PRC spy prosecutions in Taiwan. Related translations on this translation blog: Two translated excerpts from He Qinglian’s Red Infiltration are on the Ketagalan Media … Continue reading →

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2024: Another ‘Japanese Spy case’ prosecuted in China for ‘espionage’ by Japanese citizen while in Japan against China — Long Arm Jurisdiction?

Posted on 01/01/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Ten Japanese have been indicted for spying by the Chinese government over the past decade. A small proportion of the 100,000 Japanese businesspeople, students and others residing in China yet worrying for the Japanese business community. The US, Canada and … Continue reading →

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2024: Five Spies Against China Working for Korea, Japan and Taiwan

Posted on 06/05/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Related: From a Russian perspective: The Five Spies Hidden in Our Country’s Leadership: Both in Military and Political Circles, Who Are They? 潜伏在我国领导层的5个间谍，军界政界都有，分别都是谁？ By: Qingshan Guren January 4, 2024 The word “spy” first brings to mind disloyalty and betrayal. In … Continue reading →

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2008: Reviews of Yang Hengjun Fatal Weapon  《致命武器》with Reflection on PRC – Taiwan Unpleasantness

Posted on 06/03/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Translated here: 2008 : PRC Spy Novel “Fatal Weapon” — Vol II in Yang Hengjun’s Series Chinese Readers Comment Book Review:  Fatal Weapon  《致命武器》 What is the essence of the Taiwan Strait issue? Reposting a comment from a Taiwan person on … Continue reading →

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2008 : PRC Spy Novel “Fatal Weapon” — Vol II in Yang Hengjun’s Series

Posted on 06/03/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here is my translation of volume II of Yang Hengjun’s Chinese spy trilogy. Many retired spies went on to write spy novels. Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, John le Carré/David Cornwall, Stella Rimington, Charles McCarry, Frederick Forsyth, Jason Matthews fueled their … 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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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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