Analytic Guidance: Watching for Chinese Intelligence Service Purges
Beijing's
expansive anti-corruption campaign might have found a new institution to
target. On Feb. 25, Ma Jian, China's vice minister of the Ministry of State
Security — the nation's top intelligence institution — was
removed from his seat on the Chinese People's Political Consultative Congress.
The removal followed a Jan. 16 announcement that the Central Commission for
Discipline Inspection was investigating him for corruption.
The Ministry of
State Security conducts surveillance on Communist Party of China officials at
all levels — perhaps even members of China's highest governing body, the
Politburo Standing Committee — making it an extraordinarily powerful and
politically sensitive institution.
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