Mandarin-language videos on May 1, 2025, targeting disillusioned Chinese officials to recruit them as informants against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The cinematic videos portray fictional senior and junior officials frustrated by corruption and Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaigns. Building on a 2024 initiative, the campaign provides secure contact instructions in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English to bypass China’s “Great Firewall.” CIA Director John Ratcliffe underscored China as a key intelligence focus, seeking insights into military, cyber technology, and foreign policy.
China’s Foreign Ministry has not responded, though its intelligence agency continues to counter such recruitment efforts.
Mandarin-language videos on May 1, 2025, targeting disillusioned Chinese officials to recruit them as informants against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The cinematic videos portray fictional senior and junior officials frustrated by corruption and Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaigns. Building on a 2024 initiative, the campaign provides secure contact instructions in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English to bypass China’s “Great Firewall.” CIA Director John Ratcliffe underscored China as a key intelligence focus, seeking insights into military, cyber technology, and foreign policy.
China’s Foreign Ministry has not responded, though its intelligence agency continues to counter such recruitment efforts.
Telegram has made it easier for its users to communicate, as it has introduced a feature that allows more than 200,000 users in a group chat. However, if the users in a group chat move past 200,000, it changes into "Broadcast Group", but the feature comes with a restriction. Groups with close to 200k members can be converted to a Broadcast Group that allows unlimited members. Only admins can post in Broadcast Groups, but everyone can read along and participate in group Voice Chats," Telegram added.
Mr. Durov launched Telegram in late 2013 with his brother, Nikolai, just months before he was pushed out of VK, the Russian social-media platform he founded. Mr. Durov pitched his new app—funded with the proceeds from the VK sale—less as a business than as a way for people to send messages while avoiding government surveillance and censorship.
