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Matt Brazil is a Senior Analyst at BluePath Labs and a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation. He pursued Chinese studies as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, as an Army officer with tours in Korea and NSA, and as a graduate student at Harvard in their Regional Studies East Asia program. After a stint as the China specialist for the Commerce Department’s Office of Export Enforcement, he was assigned as a Commercial Officer with the US Embassy, Beijing, where he both promoted and controlled US high technology exports to China.

Afterward, Matt spent 20 years as a security professional, performing investigations in China for a chip manufacturer, and leading the development of a security organization in China for an American specialty chemical ...more

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I’ve consolidated my recent writing and research on Chinese intelligence, technology transfer, and influence operations into a single website: https://www.mattbrazil.com/

The website is intended as a resource for analysts and business leaders dealing with China-related risk and strategy. It includes two new items: a recent white paper presented in Washington, “Gettin’ on Down with Read more of this blog post »

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Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer
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Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People's Republic (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)

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Matthew Brazil rated a book it was amazing Analytical History of the Chinese Communist Party, Vol. 3 by Warren Kuo	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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