Chinese Communist Party’s espionage activities: Need for strengthening intelligence mechanism to deal with the worst-case scenarios December 18, 2020, 5:19 PM IST
S D Pradhan has served as chairman of India s Joint Intelligence Committee. He has also been the country s deputy national security adviser. He was chairman of the Task Force on Intelligence Mechanism (2008-2010), which was constituted to review the functioning of the intelligence agencies. He has taught at the departments of defence studies and history at the Punjabi University, Patiala. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, US, in the department of arms control and disarmament studies. The ministry of defence had utilized his services for the preparation of official accounts of the 1971 war and the counterinsurgency operations in the northeast. In the JIC/National Security Council secretariat, he was closely involved with the preparation of the reports of the Kargil Review C
China’s Confucius Institutes in India part of its foreign intelligence to infiltrate higher education system
India
Updated: Thursday, December 17, 2020, 8:12 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 17: Earlier this week, the Australian media reported that the Chinese Communist Party members have been working in British Consulates, universities and some of the leading companies in the UK.
Members who swear a solemn oath to guard party secrets, be loyal to the party, work hard, fight for communism through their lives and never betray the party are understood to have secured jobs in British consulates. Among them is a senior official at the British consulate in Shanghai and the official describes their role as supporting ministries and officials on visit to East China.