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Bio

Matthew Brazil is a researcher and writer. 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 U.S. Embassy, Beijing, where he both promoted and controlled U.S. 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 chemicals firm. His PhD dissertation at the University of Sydney (2013) described the place in the Chinese Communist Party of their intelligence organs. That and further research led to his contribution as the coauthor of Chinese Communist Espionage, An Intelligence Primer (2019).

Matt has begun research on a second book intended to be an integrated narrative history of intelligence operations in the Chinese Communist movement.


Matt Brazil
Contributing Editor, SpyTalk
Non-resident Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation
San Jose, California
[email protected]

https://www.mattbrazil.net/
https://www.usni.org/press/books/chinese-communist-espionage