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What useful information can court judgments provide to intelligence agencies?
China’s court system appears to be dramatically pivoting away from a
decade-long effort at judicial transparency. A leaked document from
China’s top court – dated November 2022 - reveals that ...
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Did China ever get caught spying on a government in a Western country using their technology, alleged or proven?
According to Le Monde Afrique, in January 2017, the African Union's IT
department noticed that their server traffic was unusually full
between midnight and 2 a.m. local time, when few people were
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Is there a precedent for a country sending a spy vehicle without doing any actual spying?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G1kFbUmUy0
The above video describes the U.S. detecting an alleged spy balloon and U.S. General Milley claiming that the balloon was a spy balloon, but that it did not ...
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Is China's definition of spying one of the loosest in the world?
The United States government, analysts, and lawyers say that the
revisions to Beijing's anti-espionage law are vague and will give
authorities more leeway in implementing already opaque national
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Is the link between China's research and espionage a recent phenomenon or a pattern?
In August 2022, a Chinese ship, the Yuan Wang 5 visited Sri Lanka.
This was claimed to be a "research ship" by China, while
India said it was a "spy ship".
This caused certain ...
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China spy balloon story. International implications of the use of foreign airspace [closed]
This is a follow up to this question.
If I understood correctly the USA are not complaining for a single episode, but they claim that China set up a worldwide surveillance system using balloons. The ...
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What would be the advantages of balloon over other spying tech for China?
Why would China send a huge spy balloon to spy on the U.S.?
The balloon carried an underslung payload described as a "technology
bay" estimated to be the size of "two or three school ...
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Why did Wang 'William' Liqiang identify himself?
Wang 'William' Liqiang claims to be a Chinese spy who's defecting to Australia.
In the world of spies, double agents, and triple agents, where intelligence agents go to great lengths to conceal what ...
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Did China engage in spy swaps?
The Soviet union and then Russia regularly engaged in spy swaps with the West (even if a recent trend seems to be to "get them good" even after the swap, at least on select occasions.) But ...
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Why doesn't PRC help install a new leadership or stage a coup to preserve DPRK -- or even take it over altogether before the US does?
I realize the title of this question is a bit odd and apparently counter-intuitive, and might give someone a good chuckle, but bear with me for a second.
The People's Republic of China and the ...
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