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Matthew Brazil

  • China Security Consultant and Research Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation
San Jose
As seen in: MSN, Yahoo News, The Daily Beast, National Review, Yahoo, U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE, Jamestown Foundation, RealClear World, SpyTalk, Greenhouse Canada
Covers:  Chinese espionage, the PRC surveillance state, US-China tech transfer, US-China relations
Coauthor, Chinese Communist Espionage (2019); Fellow, Jamestown Foundation. Tips and docs welcomed on China’s spy orgs for upcoming book. Former blue check.

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Matthew Brazil, Ph.D. is a non-resident Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation and a Contributing Editor at SpyTalk. He worked in Asia for over 20 years as a U.S. Army officer, American diplomat, and corporate security manager. With Peter Mattis, he is the co-author of Chinese Communist Espionage, An Intelligence Primer (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, November 2019).

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New Legislation Could Increase Security Presence in Hong Kong

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By Matthew Brazil, Brief Notes
| Jamestown Foundation
Executive Summary: Two new pieces of national security legislation in Hong Kong introduce six offenses and six “prohibited places,” signaling closer alignment with the laws of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) mainland and raising concerns about the safety and freedom of foreigners and locals. The Office for Safeguarding National Security (OSNS), Beijing’s counter-subversion arm, is central to these efforts.
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Star Hostage: TSMC, China’s Drive to Conquer Taiwan, and the Race to Win AI Superiority

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By Matthew Brazil
| Jamestown Foundation
Executive Summary: Talent flows uncovered between Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) operations in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and several sanctioned PRC firms constitute risks to the company’s position at the leading edge of the global chip industry. TSMC’s transition to encompass other parts of the value chain, ostensibly to avoid monopoly concerns, exacerbates these risks.
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The Shapeshifting Evolution of Chinese Technology Acquisition

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By Matthew Brazil
| Jamestown Foundation
Executive Summary: Smuggling, a critical tool of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to acquire technology to enhance its defense industrial base, is reemerging in the wake of the US Government’s technology controls. Diversion—falsifying the end-user—is another common tactic that the Party has successfully used to acquire critical technology, including dual-use items that it would have been otherwise unable to obtain.
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