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CHINA 08/04/2015 Zhou Yongkang faces possible execution Chinese Communist Party (CCP) top brass disagree over the upcoming [...]
CHINA 28/01/2015 Xi ally heads Lianluobu The appointment of Sun Chunlan as head of the United Front Work Department, or Zhongyang Lianluobu, the political intelligence service [...]
CHINA 08/01/2014 Fall of spymaster Zhou Yongkang Zhou Yongkang, the once-powerful Chinese intelligence chief, has been brought down by his too-close involvement in the oil industry. [...]
CHINA 11/09/2013 Zhou Yongkang Zhou Yongkang, ex-president Hu Jintao's intelligence and security coordinator, is [...]
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CHINA 30/01/2013 Qiao Shi, master-spy and reformer The former coordinator of intelligence under Deng Xiaoping is leading an anti-corruption drive targeting ex-president Jiang Zemin, probably on behalf of Xi Jinping. [...]
CHINA 28/11/2012 New securocrats take centre stage The intelligence coordinator's position no longer comes with membership of the Politburo's elite standing committee. But this does not mean that China is opening up. [...]
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CHINA 19/09/2012 CCP’s new master-spy With particularly opaque preparations underway for the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th congress, Hu Jintao’s close ally Ling Jihua has been removed as head of the party’s general office. [...]
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CHINA 23/05/2012 Shanghai gang hold security reins China’s new security chiefs will be appointed by a small circle of advisors to future president Xi Jinping, all of whose members come from Shanghai. [...]
CHINA 23/05/2012 Zhou Yongkang keeps busy To bring an end to persistent rumours that he was standing down, Zhou Yongkang, the coordinator of China’s intelligence services, [...]
CHINA 21/03/2012 He Guoqiang pulls the strings The head of the Chinese Communist Party’s central disciplinary inspection commission played a key role in Bo Xilai’s recent downfall. [...]
CHINAFRANCE 07/03/2012 Beijing votes for Sarkozy Chinese intelligence and analysis agencies believe Nicolas Sarkozy is more compatible with Beijing than his opponent in next month's presidential [...]
CHINA 08/02/2012 Xi’s master-spies wait in wings Eight months away from Chinese leader Hu Jintao’s handover to Xi Jinping, the latter’s clan, known as the "new Shanghai [...]
