Alex Joske

周安瀾 Analysing the CCP's external influence and technology acquisition efforts. Author of Spies and Lies (Hardie Grant Books 2022)

[Alex Joske @alexjoske]

Two years ago I stumbled on clues that unravelled decades of influence operations by PRC intel officers. The story of how their patient craft shaped our world is out this October in my book Spies and Lies. Available for pre-order worldwide.
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[John F Sullivan @JohnF_Sullivan]

Kang, Wong & Chan (2025): "What is absent in Chinese writings about itself is any grandiose ambition to be a global or even regional leader."

Xi Jinping's 20th Party Congress Speech (2022): "China will lead the reform of the global governance system."
https://t.co/6YEecC4IZ3

[Alex Joske @alexjoske]

China’s peak intelligence agency secretly reorganised in 2018, pushing political security, overseas protection, big data and AI up its priority list. My new paper with @HENTY30634559 documents what’s known about the changes to the MSS: https://t.co/yAfsN8iOqx

[Alex Joske @alexjoske]

Japanese edition of Spies and Lies just came out! Including an additional chapter about MSS and Chinese military networks in Japan. @masatheman @kenji_minemura

[峯村 健司 / Kenji Minemuraメルマガ「峯村健司のインテリジェンスサロン」やってます！ @kenji_minemura]

＃スパイと嘘　濃厚解説をかかせていただきました。これまでベールに包まれていた中国のスパイ組織国家安全部の内幕を描いています。ターゲットとなった米国や日本の当局者らは実名で書かれており私の知人も含まれておりリアルでした。この夏の必読書です！
@alexjoske
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[Katrina Northrop @NorthropKatrina]

I profiled John Garnaut, the former China journalist-cum-Australian government official who contributed to a global China policy shift. Now, he is teaming up with Matt Pottinger & reinventing himself as a China whisperer for the private sector:

https://t.co/hqrfuEj0sJ

[Alex Joske @alexjoske]

Canada's brand new research security policy is a great step in the right direction. Here's now Canada can go one step further to keep pace with the Chinese Government's attempts to commandeer research. My op-ed with @M_Johnston1
https://t.co/1RvK7X5miR

[Margaret McCuaig-Johnston 🇨🇦 @M_Johnston1]

Cda’s new research security policy is terrific, identifying sensitive technologies & PLA institutions we shouldn‘t partner with. Now we should address the PRC companies issue. ⁦@FP_Champagne⁩ ⁦@csiscanada⁩ ⁦@ISED_CA⁩ ⁦@CanadaFP⁩ https://t.co/WOQpS4SIUw

[Alex Joske @alexjoske]

Good to see more attention on the MSS - hard to avoid as its stake in Chinese politics, data security and external affairs grows. https://t.co/qrw2bj5TtQ

[Murong Xuecun慕容雪村 @hawking197428]

我和陈军兄、滕彪兄在許多事情上观点相近，所以一起设立了这个栏目，現在岁末临近，我们先点评一下2023年的中国，欢迎朋友们捧场。未來我們将每周聚谈一次，从世界看中国，也从中国看世界，我们将尽可能地用事实和数据说话，不编造、不臆测，也不是很在意流量，但希望可以发出一点不同的声音。

[Demetri @AsiaLens]

If you want to learn more about how the MSS (China’s rough equivalent of the CIA or MI6) operates check out @alexjoske’s excellent book “Spies and Lies”.

[Demetri @AsiaLens]

INVESTIGATION #ChinaSpies

How a Chinese spy ran a Belgian politician as an intelligence asset — Joint investigation with @DerSpiegel & @LeMondefr based on 3.5 years of texts between the MSS case officer and his asset in Brussels.

https://t.co/PLOxDaAQ7L

[Alex Joske @alexjoske]

Have a read of my short Q&A with @Diplomat_APAC for an overview of the structure and origins of provincial state security organs in China - the sharp edge of MSS operations.
https://t.co/hgHzOYmXTw

[Alex Joske @alexjoske]

How was China's top intelligence agency created? My first paper in a while dives deep into the varied origins of the MSS's provincial branches. Often overlooked, provincial state security agencies are behind the bulk of espionage and cyber operations. https://t.co/oUhePRxm3U

[@mhar4 @mhar4]

From my Louis Green Memorial Lecture last week in Melbourne, on China knowledge in the Australian university system and how the Xi era has radicalised Australian corporate international education.

[Éditions Saint-Simon @edsaintsimon]

"Quand la Chine vous espionne" de @alexjoske dans @Challenges

[David Colon @Colon_David]

@OpexNews C’est ma lecture du moment. Bravo @alexjoske !

[Alex Joske @alexjoske]

Early integration between State Security and UF: senior officers of the Central Investigation Department, a foreign intel agency, were systematically covered as United Front Work Department officers. A unit of Guangdong diaspora affairs officials was moved into State Security.

[Alex Joske @alexjoske]

How was China's top intelligence agency created? My first paper in a while dives deep into the varied origins of the MSS's provincial branches. Often overlooked, provincial state security agencies are behind the bulk of espionage and cyber operations. https://t.co/oUhePRxm3U

[Jérémy André Florès @Tantalite]

Le livre remarqué d'@alexjoske sur l'espionnage chinois, Spies and Lies, paraît aujourd'hui en France. @Lepoint y consacre sa couverture. Alors que US, UK et Australie sont secoués par des affaires d'espionnage chinois, la France est-elle épargnée ? https://t.co/m8JrqSO3Dx

[Alex Joske @alexjoske]

My book Spies and Lies, about elite influence operations by China's Ministry of State Security, is out now on audible. (Also coming out in print in Chinese, Japanese and French soon...) https://t.co/q8iOrtJJxL