Tag Archives: Security

2024 PRC State Security — No Trash Talking the PRC Economy!

Inspired by Professor Victor Shih’s Bluesky social media feed: I did a full translation of the article he mentioned. The Chinese Communist Party’s anxieties are expressed by repression, threats and warnings. Even the first article of the latest version of … Continue reading

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2024: PRC Min State Security Chen Elaborates on Secretary Xi’s PRC National Security Concept

This April 29, 2024 article by PRC Minister of State Security Chen Yixin that appeared in Study Times Xuexi Shibao is being ‘reprinted’ in newspapers and on Party websites throughout the PRC. A useful perspective on PRC national security concerns … Continue reading

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2024 Zhang Ming: Responding to Critical Domestic and International Changes

Yet another article calling for a new round of opening and reform for China as part of the solution for problems facing China today. Zhang Ming translated below also warns China to avoid over-securitization [泛安全化 fàn ānquán huà], to heed … Continue reading

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2024: Issues of Financial Security for China

Below translated via DeepL and a few homo sap tweaks, an article on financial security from the online crowd-sourced MBA Knowledge Base Encyclopedia MBA智库百科 . The section of the article on Issues of Financial Security for China I have placed first. … Continue reading

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

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

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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2023: Xi Jinping Thought on PRC National Security

See also: Here following David Kelly @davidkpolicycn of Beijing Baselines I experiment with using doctrine as a translation for ‘theory’ [理論 lǐlùn]. While Marxism in its Chinese incarnation holds that theory is never complete but is simply a guide for … Continue reading

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2023: Russians Worry About PRC Smartphone Privacy

Smartphones Xiaomi and Realme, loved by Russians, turned out to be tools of total surveillance February 8, 2023| Любимые россиянами смартфоны Xiaomi и Realme оказались инструментом тотальной слежки by Evgeny Cherkesov cnews.ru Smartphones of Chinese brands that are in demand … Continue reading

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PRC Spies in the ROC/Taiwan Military

Chinese language Wikipedia articles are often more comprehensive on Chinese subjects than their English language counterparts and can over different perspectives. I ran across this list on PRC Spies in the Taiwan military on Chinese language at 中華民國國軍中的中共間諜列表 that doesn’t … Continue reading

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2021: Xi Jinping on the Three Political Strengths

The Chinese Communist Party’s laser-like focus on maintaining its political leadership in China, while always evident, has been even more so during Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s decade. Looking at the collection of Xi’s discussions of the “Three Political … Continue reading

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