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NORTH KOREA CHINA 25/01/2012

Kim Jong-un sparks divide in Beijing

China’s intelligence services and the country’s foreign ministry have their differences over the new Kim. [...]

CHINA 21/12/2011

Anchors aweigh

China has set up a cell that intends to test Japan’s reaction to seaborne clashes with the Chinese navy. [...]

CHINA 07/12/2011

Beijing’s naval gazing

China, the world’s second naval power after the United States, has been busy building up its naval military intelligence capacities. [...]

CHINA 23/11/2011

Beijing’s man in the Med

General Liu Chao, who took over as head of the NATO mission in Cyprus in January this year, is also [...]

CHINA 14/09/2011

Musical chairs at Qingbaobu

General Yang Yui, the director of the 2nd Department of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will step down in the [...]

CHINA 01/06/2011

Yang Hui tipped to head APL

The Chinese military delegation led by the military chief of staff Chen Bingde that travelled to the United States last [...]

CHINA 02/02/2011

Sun Jinyun, satellite specialist

One of the rare women to reach the rank of general in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Sun Jinyun now [...]

CHINA 06/10/2010

“The Party commands the gun”

The corruption-tainted intelligence service of the People’s Liberation Army has been taken in hand by the Communist Party. [...]

CHINA 22/09/2010

Li unites intelligence services

Having traditionally functioned in isolation or even in competition with one another, the Communist Party’s intelligence services have begun to work together. [...]

CHINA 10/03/2010

Transforming military intelligence

The Chinese People’s Army’s political intelligence service is focusing on the acquisition of technology lacking to China’s military. [...]

CHINA 10/02/2010

Beijing’s wiretap war

Following a presidential decree on the new status of diplomats (IOL 610), the Foreign Ministry and the 2nd Department of [...]

CHINA 27/01/2010

Chinese Agents Killed in Haiti

Beijing lost at least eight nationals in the collapse of the UN building during the Haiti quake. All were linked to the Chinese security and intelligence services. [...]

CHINA 13/01/2010

Triads & Intelligence Agencies Link Up

Western intelligence services have noted that Chinese mobsters are increasingly active in Africa and that China’s intelligence agencies, notably Guoanbu [...]

CHINA 13/01/2010

Guardians of China's Virtual Great Wall

A court case has identified a number of companies that design systems to control China’s Internet, and their links with the Chinese armed forces. [...]

UNITED STATES 14/10/2009

Ronald Burgess

Ronald Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, is expected [...]

NORTH KOREA 15/07/2009

Security Job a Stepping Stone to Throne

Like his father, Kim Jong-un has taken over as comptroller of the State Security agency while waiting to become the country’s leader. [...]

CHINA 04/03/2009

Listening Post on Woody Island

In charge of intelligence (2nd Department) of the People’s Liberation Army for the past year, general Yang Hui is endeavoring [...]

TAIWAN CHINA 18/02/2009

Honeypot versus Honeypot

As Taiwan officials seem to be succumbing increasingly to the charms of pretty spies (meiren ji), the island’s intelligence agencies [...]

CHINA 21/01/2009

About-Face in the Middle East

China was conspicuous for its absence of commentary during Israel’s offensive in Gaza. Long close to the Palestinian Authority, Beijing is now putting its money on Ankara. [...]

CHINA 27/08/2008

Wider Remit for Military Security

On the morning of July 30, the security department that answers to the Peoples Liberation Army’s political department launched an [...]

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