Proponents: ‘An Indispensable Operational Resource’

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Authors: Michael Schoenhals
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Abstract

In accordance with our great leader Chairman Mao’s teaching that ‘public security organs must conduct more systematic operational work’ and on the basis of stronger Party Committee leadership and implementation of the mass line, covert assets (henceforth to be uniformly referred to as informants rather than as agents) capacity building and utilisation of necessary technical operational instruments are to be reinforced so as to allow us to engage in covert struggle energetically as well as shrewdly and to effectively mitigate and strike at acts of sabotage by tewu , spies, and hidden counter-revolutionary elements. …

Fields of Study & Subjects

Intelligence Security War Strategy China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance Chinese history and philosophy

Publication details

Journal / source
Cambridge University Press eBooks
Pages
223–226
Publication date
5 February 2026
Document type
Book chapter