Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping

Review\n'The growing competition between Washington and Beijing is not the immediate subject of "Faligot's history of Chinese intelligence . . . [but] it provides a significant part of the story of how we got to this point. Faligot has an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of China's spy agencies . . . contains many fascinating stories."--Financial Times\n"With increasing tensions in the trade war between America and China, concerns about the future of democracy in Hong Kong, and the controversy surrounding Huawei's 5G mobile networks, Chinese Spies is a very timely and important book."--Wall Street Journal\n"Faligot's detailed and fascinating account of Chinese espionage over the past century argues that 'today the community of Chinese security and intelligence services is the largest in the world'. . . impressive in its level of detail." - The Sunday Times\n"Mr Faligot writes evocatively . . . [an] engrossing book."--The Economist\n"As China seeks to improve its global image, this book brings us fully up to date and reminds us of the iron grip in which China's totalitarian-communist system holds the country."--Le Point\n"The unstoppable rise of the Chinese secret service has seen it grow greater in size than all other intelligence services worldwide. ... Roger Faligot's study traces in full the history of an organization that has long been successfully diversifying into technological and economic warfare in a new long-term strategy. As Faligot puts it, 'China's manpower is unrivalled', and its vast diaspora network is unique. [Its agents] play a decisive role in conquering new fossil fuel sources; in saturating foreign markets; and in conquering the global cellphone market. Now is the time urgently to read this absolutely fascinating and highly valuable study."--Diplomatie Magazine\n"China is not just a country with intelligence services, but rather an intelligence state. In this wide-ranging book, Faligot traces this trajectory from pre-revolutionary Shanghai to the present and reveals a phenomenon for which the West is ill-prepared."--Nigel Inkster, former Director of Operations and Intelligence, MI6, and Director of Transnational Threats & Political Risk, IISS\n"No stone is left unturned in Faligot's astounding and exhaustive who's who of Chinese espionage. The revelations prove as scary as the revolutions. Anyone inclined to welcome China's rediscovered world stature needs to read this book."--John Keay, author of China: A History\n"An astounding and unmatched source book on the extraordinary reach of the PRC intelligence network EL At once fascinating and chilling, it's a book I found hard to put down."--Clive Hamilton, author of Silent Invasion\n"Writer and journalist Roger Faligot reveals China's thirty-year history of extremely organized paranoia. This is a landmark book, the fruit of several years' investigation in Hong Kong, Australia, Japan, Europe, the US, and China itself. Faligot has interviewed dozens of specialists to paint his picture of the workings and internal logic behind the long arm of Chinese intelligence."-- Paris Match\n"Roger Faligot offers an enthralling, years-long investigation into the Chinese secret services, delving behind the scenes of Beijing's global strategy." --Le Parisien\n"French journalist Roger Faligot's history of Chinese intelligence from 1921 to the present day is teeming with revelations."-- Intelligence Online\n"Faligot, an intrepid French researcher, has for 40 years constructed an encyclopaedic private archive of Chinese intelligence. . . Chinese Spies, is an enjoyable treasure trove of conspiracy theories. . . . spicy enough to keep the general reader awake at night."--The Times\n"This book could not be more timely . . . t] includes fascinating spy stories . . . and colorful characters."--Asian Review of Books\n"Roger Faligot has produced a book stuffed full of scoops on the Chinese secret services."--Métro\nIn 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the