Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping [Paperback]

First account to take us right through recent events, from the Beijing Olympics into Xi Jinping's absolute rule.In 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and the Japanese. The story of Chinese spies has been a global one from the start.Unearthing previously unseen papers and interviewing countless insiders, Roger Faligot's astonishing account reveals nothing less than a century of world events shaped by Chinese spies. Working as scientists, journalists, diplomats, foreign students and businessmen, they've been everywhere, from Stalin's purges to 9/11 to Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan. This murky world has swept up Ho Chi Minh, the Clintons and everyone in between, with the action moving from Cambodia to Cambridge, and from the Australian outback to the centres of Western power.This fascinating narrative exposes the sprawling tentacles of the world's largest intelligence service, from the very birth of communist China to Xi Jinping's absolute rule today.ChronologyGlossary and List of AbbreviationsList of Tables and FiguresPreface: Old Red Spies Never Die1. The Battle of Shanghai2. Flashback to Mao's Secret Services3. The Spies' Cultural Revolution4. Deng Xiaoping's Deep-Water Fish5. 55 Days at Tiananmen6. Operation Autumn Orchid, Hong Kong7. Jiang Zemin's Global Intelligence8. Guoanbu and Ex-KGB Versus America9. Sea Lamprey Tactics: Economic Warfare10. The 610 Office Moles and the Five Poisons11. The People's Liberation Army of Cyber-Warriors12. China Wins Gold in Espionage: Beijing 200813. Failed Coup: Guoanbu Saves Xi Jinping14. Xi's Molehunt and the Birth of the Strategic Support ForceNotesBibliographyIndexRoger Faligot is an investigative journalist and author of many books on European and Asian intelligence, includingThe Chinese Mafia in EuropeandLa Piscine, the first history of France's secret service. He was a correspondent forThe Europló: