was Zhou YongKang such a CIA asset? Scary if he was, Zhu was like the NSA and dick cheney during that period in China.
Corean. Now that is an archaic way to write Korea.
Fun fact. The original name for Korea in English was Corea. However, during the colonization period the Japanese changed it to Korea because they want to rank higher than their colony alphabetically.
No. But his oil faction deemed as threat to party unity. He certainly did some abuses or corruption of his power (we may never know the the true extent of this) but what was really more grave was his influence in the upper echelons of power and most of his influence is on the energy and oil state owned enterprises. These people value money too much. Xi Jinping camp value party stability. It threatens division of party direction.
This cycle of putting political stooges after leaving power has been pretty well documented since ancient times in China. And almost all new administration political purges almost always will follow in the Chinese political system since after Qin Shi Huang died(remember even the all mighty Li Si(李斯) fell into the sword because of corruption of people around him.)
But Xi Jinping's anti corruption crackdown, did not only consolidate his authority, but it cleaned up the whole CCP establishment. And it even dismantled CIA assets in China().
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Do you have a full copy of the essay we can read here?
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All of which has happened and is continuing to improve in 2021.
That's a rumor once popularly believed by Koreans based on Anti-Japanism, but later turned out baseless and unlikely. Both Corea and Korea were used mixedly then the U.S. Department of State and the (British) Royal Geographical Society decided to use Korea instead of Corea in English. Koreans themselves wanted their country to be named Choson/Chosun/Chosen (朝鲜), didn't like either Korea or Corea, because their country is founded after Korea/Corea (高丽)'s collapse. Imperial Japan used Chosen.
I actually haven't read the full essay but from what gather, the link or the essay itself has been taken off the Chinese internet.
By the way, I want to ask if you or anyone else here have read this book: CHINESE COMMUNIST ESPIONAGE An Intelligence Primer PETER MATTIS AND MATTHEW BRAZIL, Naval Institute Press Annapolis, Maryland.
The first passage of the book alone sounds and read like it's taken from a page of a Tom Clancy novel. Anyone knows if possible if the events described here is true? And these American authors book can still be read, analyze, and absorb for one's owns advancement in understanding the murky world of intelligence relating to China.
"For the employees of a certain Chinese government ministry in Beijing, the coldest day of 2011 was not in winter. It was on the morning that all personnel were ordered to view the execution of one of their comrades, who had been exposed as a spy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and his pregnant wife. The two were shot in the ministry’s interior courtyard, the proceedings shown on closed-circuit television."
"The man’s sentence was only one of a dozen or more lethal warnings to the Chinese bureaucracy between late 2010 and December 2012. The state and the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would not tolerate disloyalty by those entrusted with its secrets. There would be no mercy, even for the unborn child of a traitor. The forces of state security had destroyed CIA networks in China, and woe to anyone who tried to revive them."
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Sounds like utter bullshit.