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#183 China’s Most Influential Spy Agency Hides in Plain Sight | Alex Joske

China Unscripted

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Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party

In the same year that Bob Hawk was invited back to China by this MSS front organization for a meeting with Jiang Zemin himself, Jiang Zemin was giving a secret speech to the Ministry of State Security where he talked a very different line. This is just a totally different image, I think, to the kind of friendly, pro-Western face that Jiang Zemin showing Bob Hawk and that he showed the rest of the world. He gave so much access, I actually remember a AP article from a couple of weeks ago that was talking about how a lot of reporters or analysts look back fondly on days with Jiang Zmin because of like, you know Jiang would just talk about whatever off

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