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Leaked FSB Memo Declares China 'Enemy' and Exposes Covert Spy Campaign
- An internal eight-page FSB memo, recently acquired by media sources including The New York Times, designates China as "the enemy" and highlights a significant security threat to Russia.
- This document, which appears to have been created around the turn of 2023 to 2024, reveals increasing distrust despite official claims of a strong and enduring partnership between Moscow and Beijing.
- The FSB describes Chinese intelligence actively recruiting Russian agents, surveilling Russian military actions in Ukraine, and using academic and commercial fronts to conduct Arctic espionage.
- Three days before Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the FSB launched Entente-4 to counter Chinese espionage amid Russia's military focus on Ukraine, with orders to monitor WeChat users including hacking devices.
- The document implies a delicate balance as Russia publicly deepens ties with China while internally guarding against espionage and possible territorial challenges, indicating ongoing risks to bilateral relations.
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According to a secret document of the FSB, the successor of the KGB, recently published by the "New York Times", a deep suspicion of China exists within the Russian intelligence services. Beijing would increasingly seek to gain access to sensitive military technologies, even to recruit dissatisfied Russian scientists.
Russian President Vladimir Putin presents his country's relationship with China with a non-clint partnership – an economic and military collaboration that has entered into a new era. But on the corridors of the FSB headquarters in Moscow, a secret counter...
Externally, they demonstrate close friendship, speak of a partnership "without borders", but the reality seems to be quite different.
Beijing has become an increasingly important ally for the Kremlin during the war – but internally within the Russian security service, China is described as the “enemy”.
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