China has more people engaged in its spying effort than any other country - but we don't even know the names of its intelligence agencies, writes Peter Hartcher
You know about the CIA. And the FBI. The whole world knows that James Bond worked for MI6.
We've heard in recent years that Chinese spying and hacking in Australia is so rife that it's overwhelming our own intelligence agencies. The federal government in 2018 even introduced new laws to try to limit Chinese spying and interference. But we can't name the agencies doing it.
Brady, a professor of political science at NZ's University of Canterbury, offers a basic rundown of China's main intelligence agencies in her piece, titled "Party Faithful" and published in the latest issue of. First is the Ministry of State Security, modelled along the lines of the KGB. Brady describes it as a "full-spectrum intelligence agency" spying on the world. Its public face is styled a think tank, the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations.
The second key PLA agency is the one that does global cyberwar. The Strategic Support Force also operates political interference abroad, siphons off military and commercial secrets, and conducts psychological and political war abroad. Apparently it's quite good at it.summarised the consensus of US agencies last year as "China's eating our lunch in cyberspace".
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