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securing energy sources, Covid-19 pandemic. The ists or mass protests by Spies a fascinating account
winning contracts in most important chapter in the Tibetans or the Falun of the development and
other countries for Chinese this book for contemporary Gong. role of intelligence ser-
companies, and acquiring times is ‘Cyber-Warriors of The last chapter of the vices in China in the past
technological know-how the PLA’, which unravels book highlights the contro- century. Details and data
came centre-stage along the layers of cyber espio- versies around the spread obtained from Chinese,
with security and strate- nage and attacks as well of the Coronavirus from French, British, Japanese,
gic interests. The State as counterespionage and China’s Wuhan lab. This Korean, American, and
Council’s Research Bureau counterattacks. chapter is a new inclusion Taiwanese papers and
was transformed into a The opportunity to host in the book which was first personnel substantiate the
major centre for providing the Summer Olympics of published in 2019. The events of the last century
economic inputs directly 2008 was the first mega- author provides details of as they have unfolded in
to prime minister Wen moment for China to end the development of bio- China. This book is a must-
Jiabao. its ‘century of humiliation’ logical weapons by China read for China watchers,
The third and final part (1842-1949). About 100 until Beijing signed the students of modern world
of the book, with five chap- heads of state, 20,000 ath- international treaty against history and operatives
ters, deals with the acquisi- letes, and 2 million visitors it in 1984. Meanwhile of national intelligence
tion of cyber warfare skills were in Beijing during the the CPC took advantage services. It also shows a
by Chinese secret service games, and it was a test of of the pandemic to crush mirror to India, albeit un-
agencies, the Chinese mo- character and quality for the democracy movement intentionally, as one begins
dus operandi for successful the Chinese intelligence and neutralise the Uyghur to compare the spread
conduct of the 2008 Bei- service to ensure that the Muslims in Hong Kong and depth of intelligence
jing Olympics, Xi Jinping’s gala event was successfully and Xinjiang respectively. systems of India and China
rise as a powerful leader, staged without any distur- In-depth research and in the 21st century.
the role of Xi’s Strategic bances such as a terrorist use of large resources have PARIMAL MAYA SUDHA-
Support Force, and the strike by Uyghur national- combined to make Chinese KAR (The Book Review)

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