Tag Archives: Ministry of State Security

2024: MSS Warns of Traps Set for PRC Experts Abroad, Foreign Spies Stealing Rare Earth Secrets, Hybrid Seeds, Illegal Weather Data Collection

Posted on 06/04/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

PRC experts working overseas are cautioned to avoid traps set by foreign intelligence agencies. There are usually more reports on espionage in the Chinese media around April 15 National Security Day. Related translations: Overseas spy agencies have threatened and intimidated … Continue reading →

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2008 : PRC Spy Novel “Fatal Weapon” — Vol II in Yang Hengjun’s Series

Posted on 06/03/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here is my translation of volume II of Yang Hengjun’s Chinese spy trilogy. Many retired spies went on to write spy novels. Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, John le Carré/David Cornwall, Stella Rimington, Charles McCarry, Frederick Forsyth, Jason Matthews fueled their … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 05/01/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

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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2010: Strategy and Tactics of PRC Intelligence Agencies

Posted on 05/15/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

DeepL and ChatGPT3.5 translated from Glazunov’s The Chinese Threat. The Chinese translation I checked my self; the Russian is beyond my fading one year of Russian — I did check it all over to make sure that it made sense, … Continue reading →

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2021: Q&A May PRC Min State Security Employees Marry? Do they have Secret Identities?

Posted on 04/14/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This 2021 article on the PRC news portal Sougou below confirms that PRC intelligence agencies have the authority under Chinese law to compel PRC citizens to cooperate with them in their intelligence work. That requirement is in the PRC intelligence … Continue reading →

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2020: Historical Sketch of PRC Intelligence Services

Posted on 02/08/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I learned 20 years ago, I find that using DeepL, the Russian search engine yandex.ru to find articles and online … Continue reading →

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2012: Chinese Military Espionage Against Russia

Posted on 02/07/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

When I worked at U.S. Embassy Beijing in the late 1990s, I came across, on the website of the PRC Commission for Science and Technology in the National Defense (COSTIND) news of an award to a Chinese military technician who … Continue reading →

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Yang Hengjun’s PRC Spy Novel: Fatal Weakness Vol I

Posted on 02/04/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese-Australian novelist and blogger Yang Hengjun, now imprisoned in China after four years of torture and incessant interrogation, is the author of a trilogy of contemporary novels about both PRC Ministry of State Security spies and freelance “citizen spies” with … Continue reading →

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