Tag Archives: spy

2024: Five Spies Against China Working for Korea, Japan and Taiwan

Posted on 06/05/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Related: From a Russian perspective: The Five Spies Hidden in Our Country’s Leadership: Both in Military and Political Circles, Who Are They? 潜伏在我国领导层的5个间谍，军界政界都有，分别都是谁？ By: Qingshan Guren January 4, 2024 The word “spy” first brings to mind disloyalty and betrayal. In … Continue reading →

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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: Reviews of Yang Hengjun Fatal Weapon  《致命武器》with Reflection on PRC – Taiwan Unpleasantness

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

Translated here: 2008 : PRC Spy Novel “Fatal Weapon” — Vol II in Yang Hengjun’s Series Chinese Readers Comment Book Review:  Fatal Weapon  《致命武器》 What is the essence of the Taiwan Strait issue? Reposting a comment from a Taiwan person on … 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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2008: Russians on Chinese/Russian Spy vs. Spy Wars, Lin Biao Crash

Posted on 04/18/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Between hegemonic Russia and peaceful China calmly rising as it planned the construction of a common home for all mankind and womankind, there used to be suspicions without limits. Now friendship without limits. Progress! Related on this translation blog: The … Continue reading →

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2023: Russia, A Prime Chinese Spying Target

Posted on 02/16/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The PRC and the Russian Federation have drawn closer in recent years facing as they do the perfidious ‘Western bloc’. Nonetheless, Russia has long been a top target of Chinese espionage. I remember reading on the PRC Commission for Science, … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC Defense Worker Arrested Two Years Ago by MSS as US Spy

Posted on 10/22/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

《今日说法》 22 Oct Chinese Central Television (CCTV) program 迷失境外 Legal Report on 2021 arrest of suspected US spy in Sichuan. Hou, a PRC defense industry worker, had been a visiting scholar at a US university and was asked by US … Continue reading →

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2010: Glazunov on Chinese Spies in Russia

Posted on 05/14/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Another translation from excepts of Russian books and articles about PRC intelligence operations inside the Russian Federation. This one by O.N. Glazunov was published in 2013. The publisher promotes the book thus: “What goals does China set for itself in … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC National Security Day — Beware Intelligence Agency Pitches While Abroad

Posted on 04/28/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

April 15 is tax day in the USA but in China it is the annual National Security Education Day. That day PRC media publicizes some recent successes in PRC counter-intelligence work as examples and warnings to others. See also: While … Continue reading →

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2020: KGB Officer — We were Recruiting Intellectuals

Posted on 03/02/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

We were Recruiting Intellectuals. Memories of a KGB Officer [Source is Radio Liberty. Wikipedia: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government funded organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Middle East where it … Continue reading →

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