Category: Ministry of State Security

China Sets Up Mechanism to Monitor Its Spies Amid Domestic and International Turmoils

Chinese Ministry of State Security, the regime’s intelligence apparatus, is under more stringent supervision, while the communist regime fears loss of control of its ever-present secret agents. The regime’s spy chief published a commentary in early June, demanding loyalty to the CCP and prioritizing the monitoring of China’s spies by setting up a new monitoring…


Elon Musk Must ‘Immediately Address and Fix’ Twitter’s Security Failures: Senate Republican

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, is calling on Elon Musk to answer questions about Twitter’s security and privacy issues that his predecessor has failed to provide. In a letter (pdf) to Musk released on Nov. 23, Grassley expressed concerns about how the information collected by Twitter could fall into…


Soros, Thornton, Hawke: New Book Details How Beijing Manipulated Western Elites

Beijing’s highly secretive Ministry of State Security (MSS) leveraged and manipulated leading Western political and business elites to deepen the Chinese Communist Party’s influence around the world, according to a new book by Alex Joske, an expert on Chinese foreign interference. The early pages of “Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World”…


Prominent NYC Chinese Democracy Activist Spied for Communist China: DOJ

A prominent Chinese American dissident was recently arrested in New York City, accused by the FBI of working as an informant for Chinese intelligence for 18 years. Wang Shujun, 73, of Queens, was one of five defendants charged in separate cases unsealed on March 16, that federal prosecutors said were part of the communist regime’s…


Chinese Spy Agency Silences UK University Debates: Lawmaker

A Chinese spy agency has managed to silence debates in British universities, a senior Conservative lawmaker has warned. Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, told the House of Commons on Feb. 10 that China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), the communist regime’s main intelligence agency, has been working to erode freedoms in UK…


Chinese Spy Convicted of Conspiracy to Steal Cutting-Edge US Aviation Technology

A jury in Cincinnati has convicted a Chinese intelligence agent over his role in a scheme to recruit spies and steal sensitive American aviation technology for Beijing. Xu Yanjun, a deputy division director at the Chinese Ministry of State Security, Beijing’s top intelligence agency, was found guilty on all four counts, including conspiring to and…


Afghan Withdrawal Allows US to ‘Shore Up’ Competitiveness to Confront China, Biden Says

President Joe Biden pointed to the U.S. competition with China as a reason for America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, in a speech on Aug. 31 declaring the end of the 20-year conflict in the war-torn nation. Before commenting on China, he said the future U.S. foreign policy would draw from two lessons in Afghanistan. “First, we…


US to Combat Increasing Cyberattacks, Especially From China

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the launch of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) on Aug. 5, to combat increasing cyberattacks from other countries including communist China. The JCDC will bring government agencies and private industry together to cooperate on U.S. cyber-defense operations to fend off cyberattacks and threats from overseas. The…