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The government of the People's Republic of China is engaged in espionage overseas, directed through diverse methods via the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), the United Front Work Department (UFWD), People's Liberation Army (PLA) via its Intelligence Bureau of the Joint Staff Department, and numerous front organizations and state-owned enterprises.
Eric C. Anderson and Jeffrey G. Engstrom define "informationization" and informatized warfare in Chinese military doctrine as follows: "[A]t the operational level appears focused on providing an integrated platform for joint war-zone command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) connectivity ...
The book provides a history of Chinese intelligence services, with an emphasis on the origins of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and contemporary operations of the United Front Work Department and Ministry of State Security under CCP General Secretary, which the book refers to primarily by its transliterated Chinese abbreviation, "Guoanbu."
Made a bodyguard for Mikhail Borodin, the Comintern agent and advisor to the Kuomintang from Soviet Russia, Gu was sent to Vladivostok to learn the tactics of insurrection and tradecraft of espionage as Borodin feared division between the Chinese nationalists and communists. A trained spy, Gu led Teke operations from the group's 1927 founding ...
In Chinese Communist Party (CCP) jargon, the hidden front (Chinese: 隐蔽战线; pinyin: yǐnbì zhànxiàn, sometimes translated as "hidden battlefront", "hidden struggle" or "covert front") is a phrase that describes Chinese espionage, originating from before the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, when the CCP was still an underground movement in China.
"United Front work can include espionage but [it] is broader than espionage," Audrye Wong, assistant professor of politics at the University of Southern California, tells the BBC.
The espionage threat of China, however, remained the focus for several members of the panel, with FBI director Chris Wray saying: “China has made economic espionage and stealing others’ work ...
Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer is a 2019 book by Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil which examines the history of intelligence collection, analysis, and exploitation since the founding of the People's Republic of China.