{"id":33068,"date":"2023-01-23T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T03:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=33068"},"modified":"2025-04-19T18:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T12:54:26","slug":"57th-director-general-of-police-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/57th-director-general-of-police-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"57th Director General of Police Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chinese commercial companies and India\u2019s internal security<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What were the findings of investigating agencies?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the modus operandi of these entities?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How Chinese Commercial Entities are posing threat for India\u2019s internal security?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What are the steps taken by the government to address this issue?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The 57<sup>th<\/sup> Director General of Police conference discussed the issue of influence wielded by Chinese commercial firms.<\/li>\n<li>The three-day Conference, from January 20 to 22, 2023, was held in hybrid format in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>The conference was inaugurated by the Union Home Minister and PM Modi also participated in the conference and addressed it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chinese commercial companies and India\u2019s internal security<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Background: Action on Chinese commercial companies by Indian investigating agencies<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>A disturbing picture of Chinese Commercial Entities (CCE) has emerged after a series of actions by Indian authorities since 2020.\n<ul>\n<li>The investigation began after the June 15, 2020, incident in Ladakh\u2019s Galwan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Actions by Indian authorities included busting of spying rings, tax raids on major Chinese telecom companies, a crackdown on mobile apps and a study of incoming investments into India.<\/li>\n<li>The actions by these agencies revealed a web of companies and individuals indulging in espionage, profiling of high value individuals, large-scale tax evasion and exfiltration of bulk data.<\/li>\n<li>These facts point to Beijing\u2019s growing hunger for data and secrets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What were the findings of investigating agencies?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The assessment by agencies found that the Chinese commercial entities operate in India with five primary objectives:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>influencing minds,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>build economic control,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>acquisition of data,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>for espionage and\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>to target scientists to compromise innovation and intellectual property rights (IPRs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The objective of counterintelligence is pursued through top officials of Chinese companies in India.<\/li>\n<li>Small-size shell companies were also used as financial conduits to fund espionage rings and resident agents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the modus operandi of these entities?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hundreds of small companies controlled by Chinese nationals have dummy Indian directors and managers for a show of legitimacy.\n<ul>\n<li>Many of these companies did not physically exist at their registered offices. However, their banking accounts were active and being operated from abroad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A cheap (and sometimes below production cost) pricing model that has given them control of a large chunk of the telecom and hardware markets in India.<\/li>\n<li>Investigations also show that some senior Chinese employees of these companies are documented members of the Chinese Communist Party.\n<ul>\n<li>Hence, Beijing has a strong leverage on their operations in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Agencies also found a seamless flow of data to Chinese servers through remote access of modems, switches, routers and networks sold and installed by these companies in India.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, a seamless data link through Chinese origin mobile phones was also established during investigations.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The data collected has helped Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) engines create portraits, with biometric details of millions of Indians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>How Chinese Commercial Entities are posing threat for India\u2019s internal security?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Access to personal data of Indians<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Investments by Chinese companies such as Alibaba and Tencent were used to manage and control Indian companies which had a repository of large set of personal data of Indians.<\/li>\n<li>Chinese entities have been storing away information and data using multiple methods, with the objective of gaining strategic advantage over India\u2019s economic and security systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Influencing minds<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Deep cover resident agents, posing as officials of these companies, are attempting to fund and influence masses in India.<\/li>\n<li>This is being done to foment the sentiments of masses and create internal disturbances.<\/li>\n<li>Such entities are also used to influence Tibetan monks living in India.\n<ul>\n<li>Chinese national Luo Sang, who was arrested for money laundering in August 2020, was actively sending money in packets to Tibetan monks.<\/li>\n<li>Agencies are suspecting that it was intended to gather information about the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Espionage and money laundering<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Small-size shell companies were also used as financial conduits to fund espionage rings and resident agents.<\/li>\n<li>E.g., operating under the name of Charlie Peng, the web is believed to have laundered over Rs 1,000 crore, with some of the proceeds used to gather intelligence in India.<\/li>\n<li>Recently, a top executive of a telecom company found in the possession of sensitive documents.<\/li>\n<li>The investigation also revealed of exhaustive profiling of key business leaders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the steps taken by the government to address this issue?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Crackdown by investigating agencies<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Chinese commercial entities are under sustained investigation by the intelligence agencies since 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple raids have been conducted by the ED under the provision of Prevention of Money Laundering Act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Clampdown on Chinese investment<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2020, Central govt declared that foreign investments from countries with which India shares land border shall be under approval route.<\/li>\n<li>Since China shares a land boundary with India, this announcement clamped down on investments from China making prior government clearance mandatory for all forms investments, even indirect ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ban on Chinese app<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The govt of India has banned more than 250 Chinese apps including PUBG Mobile, Tiktok, Shein, AliExpress and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Other steps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Intelligence Bureau created a new wing \u2014 China Coordination Centre \u2014 to collaborate with financial enforcement agencies to investigate Chinese companies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>What is money laundering?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0Money laundering is the illegal process of making large amounts of money generated by criminal activity, such as drug trafficking or terrorist funding, appear to have come from a legitimate source.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The money from the criminal activity is considered dirty, and the process \u201claunders\u201d it to make it look clean.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2)<\/strong><strong>\u00a0What is espionage?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0Espionage is the crime of spying or secretly watching a person, company, government, etc. for the purpose of gathering secret information or detecting wrongdoing, and to transfer such information to another organization or state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/police-meet-to-discuss-topic-of-managing-influence-of-chinese-commercial-entities\/article66414895.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Police meet will discuss influence wielded by Chinese commercial firms<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/defence\/espionage-profiling-and-economic-control-mark-chinese-commercial-companies\/articleshow\/92024751.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The Economic Times<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/technology\/news\/story\/bgmi-garena-free-fire-tiktok-and-more-banned-in-india-check-the-full-list-1990048-2022-08-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India Today<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>57th Director General of Police conference discussed the issue of influence wielded by Chinese commercial 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