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CHINARUSSIA 26/05/2010 Cheng Fenxiang goes to Moscow At the behest of China's International Liaison Department, the Chinese intelligence services are strengthening their links with their counterparts in Russia. [...]
CHINA 13/01/2010 Anti-Minority Task Force The Communist Party’s central committee has formed a unit dedicated to counter-insurrection. [...]
CHINA 03/06/2009 Old Spy Chief Exacts his Revenge Intelligence Online has learned that it was the elderly Qiao Shi, supreme intelligence coordinator during the reign of Deng Xiaoping, [...]
CHINA 14/05/2008 Hu Places His Men The Chinese leadership has appointed a new boss of the Public Security ministry (Gonganbu) in Shanghai, Zhang Xuebing. In making [...]
CHINA 14/05/2008 Double Edge to Tibet Talks The Chinese Communist Party has assigned intelligence experts to negotiate with the Tibetan government-in-exile. Meanwhile Beijing's State Security ministry accuses radicals of infiltrating the Tibetan leadership. [...]
CHINA 23/04/2008 Taking Fresh Look at Intelligence on France China's political intelligence agencies failed to anticipate the incidents which marred the passing of the Olympic torch in Paris two [...]
CHINA 26/03/2008 A War Room to Keep Down Tibet Free Chinese president Hu Jintao has just set up an emergency military-security unit on Tibet. The aim of the exercise is to save the Olympic Games in Beijing as well as shield the leadership from the Communist Party’s hard-line wing. [...]
NORTH KOREA 30/01/2008 Kim Jong-il's Master Spy To safeguard its ties with the all-powerful boss of North Korean intelligence, Kim Yang-gon, Seoul didn't hesitate to fire the director of its National Intelligence Service (NIS). [...]
CHINA 31/10/2007 New Intelligence Coordinator The 17th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party confirmed the appointment of Zhou Yongkang, minister of public security (Gonganbu) as [...]
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 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 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 20/07/2006 New Broadside Against Jiang Zemin In what seems a fresh attack against his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, Chinese president Hu Jintao has hauled a new case of corruption out of the closet. [...]
JAPAN 06/07/2006 Hashimoto and the Chinese Spy Prodded by the Americans, Japan's counter-intelligence agency is seeking to shed light on an espionage affair involving a former prime minister. [...]
GERMANY 24/05/2006 Targeting Chinese Dissidents Beijing's intelligence operatives in European capitals have been put on the alert in recent days to find information about 200 [...]
Spotlight CHINAFRANCE 24/11/2005 France Polishes Sales Tactics in China Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao’s visit to Paris in early December can be expected to set a fresh spur to French business interests in China. To catch up with their European and American competitors, French companies have been polishing their [...]
