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CHINA 19/07/2007 David Madoc-Jones Founded and headed by Steve Vickers, himself a former senior [...]
CHINA 19/07/2007 One China, Two Intelligence Agencies Ten years after Hong Kong was handed back to China two intelligence agencies are living cheek to jowl in the ex-colony: China’s state security service and Hong Kong’s Liaison Office. [...]
CHINA 05/07/2007 China’s Secret War with Pyongyang Chinese business circles in North Korea and North Korean communities living in exile in China are being wooed by intelligence agencies of the two countries. [...]
CHINA 21/06/2007 Cohen Group Beefs Up China Operation After opening its first office in Beijing last year (IOL), the Cohen Group founded by William Cohen, former defense secretary [...]
CHINA 21/06/2007 Spectrum OSO Asia Plants Flag in China Spectrum OSO Asia, a business intelligence firm headed by two former executives of ArmorGroup Asia Pacific, Paul Bromberg and William [...]
CHINA 07/06/2007 Wahaha’s Backers Against Danone China’s Wahaha group is engaged in a courtroom battle with its former partner, the French agribusiness giant Danone. Wahaha has a lot of friends in China’s security establishment. [...]
CHINA 24/05/2007 Purge in Party Intelligence Unit A leak to South Korean intelligence has cost several officials in the Central Committee’s international department their jobs. [...]
CHINA 10/05/2007 CFAO Keeps an Ear to the Ground A discreet organization provides Chinese president Hu Jintao with forecasts regarding major international issues. [...]
CHINA 10/05/2007 Steele Foundation in Hiring Mode The American intelligence and security concern Steele Foundation, which has long been run out of San Francisco by retired general [...]
CHINA 19/04/2007 Young Blood Sought for Agencies Luo Gan, the technical coordinator of China’s intelligence agencies, is due to step down in September. In doing so he will follow several Guoanbu deputy ministers into retirement. [...]
CHINA 19/04/2007 Kroll on Shopping Spree in Asia The American concern Kroll is seeking to buy up business intelligence firms specializing in Asia in order to get a firmer hold on the region’s market. [...]
CHINA 05/04/2007 Guoanbu Eases Up on Taiwan Beijing’s new strategy concerning Taiwan was decided after a lot of heated argument between intelligence and security officials belonging to the “Leading Group on Taiwan Affairs.” [...]
CHINA 22/03/2007 Guoanbu Settles in Georgia & Ukraine Beijing has launched an unprecedented offensive to establish multi-role intelligence agencies both in Ukraine and Georgia. [...]
CHINA 08/03/2007 Cutting off Support for Uigurs Officials from the Turkish intelligence agency Milli Istihbarat Teskilati (MIT) will be officially posted to Beijing next month to cooperate [...]
CHINAUNITED STATES 22/02/2007 Beijing’s New Approach to Winning Friends in Washington Free To deal with the new Democrat majority in Congress, which includes opponents of Beijing’s human rights record, China is counting on lobbying concerns in Washington and American businesses working in China to plead its cause. [...]
CHINA 22/02/2007 New Anti-Corruption Agency The formation of a national agency to fight against corruption won’t disrupt the close ties between government agencies that crack down on fraud and China’s intelligence services. [...]
CHINA 08/02/2007 A Leopard Changes its Spots Headed since its inception by former police officials who had belonged to the Royal Hong Kong Police, Hill & Associates is now recruiting executives from the world of finance and consultancy. [...]
CHINA 25/01/2007 Zeng Qinghon Next President? The mentor of China’s intelligence community, vice president Zeng Qinghong, could surprise many by being named China’s next president at the Communist Party’s 17th congress this autumn. [...]
CHINA 11/01/2007 SIGINT Squeeze The 3rd department of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) headed by general Qiu Rulin is feeling the heat from a [...]
CHINA 11/01/2007 Chinese Advance in Scanning Market Although it is banned from selling its goods in the U.S., the Chinese firm Nuctech which dominates the market for scanning machines with its British rival Smiths, has nonetheless forged close ties in America. [...]
CHINA 21/12/2006 MOST Leaves No Stone Unturned Although a recent OECD report estimated that China’s research and development budget in 2006 would be second only to that [...]
CHINA 07/12/2006 China Growls at Pyongyang For the first time the Chinese army is drafting plans to attack North Korea. And it has let Pyongyang know about it. [...]
CHINA 02/11/2006 How to Achieve Social Peace The Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies headed by professor Li Wei at the Chinese Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) is [...]
