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Chinese Intelligence in the Cyber Age

2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 55; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00396338.2013.767405

1468-2699

Nigel Inkster,

Intelligence, Security, War Strategy

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes See for example, Zhao Suisheng, 'A State-led Nationalism: the Patriotic Education Campaign in post-Tiananmen China', Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol. 31, no. 3, September 1998, pp. 287–302. David Ian Chambers, 'Edging in from the Cold: the Past and Present State of Chinese Intelligence Historiography', Studies in Intelligence, vol. 56, no. 3, September 2012, https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-ofintelligence/csi-publications/csistudies/studies/vol.-56-no.-3/pdfs/Chambers-ChineseIntelHistoriography.pdf. 'Espionage: a Spy's Grisly Solution', Time, 3 March 1986, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,960791,00.html. The defector was Yu Qiangsheng, a senior officer in the Ministry of State Security's counter-espionage division and brother of Yu Zhengsheng who was appointed a member of the Politburo Standing Committee in November 2012. 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He cites an official involved in investigating cyber espionage as saying: 'we have traced attacks back to a desk in a (People's Liberation Army) office building'. Josh Rogin, 'NSA Chief: Cybercrime Constitutes the "Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History"', The Cable, 9 July 2012, http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/07/09/nsa_chief_cybercrime_constitutes_the_greatest_transfer_of_wealth_in_history. Michael Riley and Ashley Vance, 'Inside the Chinese Boom in Corporate Espionage', Bloomberg Businessweek, 15 March 2012, http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-14/inside-the-chinese-boom-in-corporateespionage. Laura Payton, 'Former Nortel Exec Warns against Working with Huawei', CBC News, 11 October 2012, http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/10/11/pol-huawei-nortelexperience.html. Additional informationNotes on contributorsNigel InksterNigel Inkster is Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at the IISS. He served in the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from 1975 to 2006, and spent seven years on the Board of SIS, the last two as Assistant Chief and Director for Operations and Intelligence.