S8 Ep205: David Shedd explains how China's Ministry of State Security operates as a massive intelligence entity combining the functions of the CIA, FBI, and NSA. He traces this economic espionage to Deng Xiaoping's 1984 strategy, noting that Chinese officers view t
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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1906 PEKING NORTHSIDE
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchew with my good colleague David Shed, long-time member of the national security team guarding the nation's secrets and also looking very carefully at where we're headed in terms of security for the 21st century. |
| 0:20.0 | David is no longer in government, but he is of government because he reflects on the history |
| 0:26.6 | of how we got into a situation where we're faced with the threats, routine threats by |
| 0:32.3 | the People's Republic of China, economically, kinetically, and in terms of our future. However, all of it didn't happen |
| 0:41.0 | overnight. The enemy is not that good. They developed this slowly under Huzintows reign |
| 0:48.2 | 10 years from 2002 to 2012. And there's one place that we need to go that... |
| 0:54.8 | It sounds romantic when you first hear it, just like KGB. |
| 1:00.8 | Romantic, right? |
| 1:02.0 | You know, the first director is the second director. |
| 1:04.4 | Well, the Ministry of State Security is described by David as a nondescript building, |
| 1:09.7 | but there is the driver. |
| 1:12.2 | There are the tools working with the economic interests of the United States |
| 1:17.9 | of the World Trade Organization. |
| 1:19.9 | Not right away. |
| 1:21.2 | They developed this slowly. |
| 1:22.7 | First of all, they were genius at being rip-off artists. |
| 1:25.8 | I'm told it in Shanghai is an underground fair. |
| 1:30.0 | Everything in it is luxury goods from all over the world, Paris, New York, everything high-end. |
| 1:36.0 | It's all stolen, fraudulent. |
| 1:39.1 | Everything. |
| 1:40.1 | The Chinese people got used to only buying frauds, rip-offs, not the real thing. |
| 1:45.6 | Well, that turned into a plan. |
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