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2019: Russian View ‘Why Nobody Can Cope with Chinese Intelligence’

‘Why Nobody Can Cope with Chinese Intelligence’ Почему с китайской разведкой не может справиться весь мир by Valery Ponomarev [I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I … Continue reading

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2010: From a Russian Perspective: History of PRC intelligence

[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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2022: Accused Japan-China Friendship “Spy” Hideji Suzuki Talks About His Torture and Imprisonment in China

Mainichi Shimbun in October – November 2022 published a four part series on the detention, torture and six year imprisonment of Hideji Suzuki who returned on Japan after completing his sentence in October 2023. Below are links to the Mainichi … Continue reading

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2023: PRC Balloon Blacklist; Aerospace Experts, ChatGPT Comment

Also in this series: See also: The Conversation: Chinese spy balloon over the US: An aerospace expert explains how the balloons work and what they can see Contents: US just announced blacklist of some Chinese companies that manufacture components of the … Continue reading

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2023 Censored: Chinese Scientists Explain Balloons and Unmanned Airships

Interview with two top Chinese researchers on the upper atmosphere —Bian Jianchun Institute of Atmospheric Physics) and Hu Xiong (National Space Center) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences — provides insights into Chinese upper atmosphere research and the difference between … Continue reading

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2023: PRC GTimes — For High-altitude Balloons Studying Atmosphere is their “Main Business”

From the Global Times, a PRC official publication belonging to the People’s Daily group, famous for its commentaries that tend to be more rabid than most of the PRC press. It is regularly quoted in part because it has an … Continue reading

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2020: Historical Sketch of PRC Intelligence Services

[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

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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PRC Spies in the ROC/Taiwan Military

Chinese language Wikipedia articles are often more comprehensive on Chinese subjects than their English language counterparts and can over different perspectives. I ran across this list on PRC Spies in the Taiwan military on Chinese language at 中華民國國軍中的中共間諜列表 that doesn’t … Continue reading

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1974:U.S. Balloons Invaded PRC Airspace, Zhou Enlai Furious Orders Destroy It At All Costs

Three notes relating to U.S. Spy Balloons Overflying Soviet and Chinese Territory During the 1970s. The U.S. also overflew the Soviet Union during the 1950s with both balloons and aircraft. Some of the balloons and aircraft were shot down. The … Continue reading

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