News Analysis Surveillance, intimidation, and manipulation act as the grease for the gears that drive all communist systems. Whether it was the regimes of the past, or the leading communist country of our modern day, the systems all share these characteristics. For communist leaders to control those below them, they are fully dependent on whoever controls information. In China, that’s the job of the state secret police, according to an article published through the Chinese Epoch Times on July 21 by Chinese internal affairs analyst Cheng Xiaonong. On July 15, Chinese leader Xi Jinping assigned a military chief of staff to be the new director of China’s internal spy bureau, according to state-run media reports. The new director, Zhou Hongxu, is now in charge of the Central Security Bureau (CSB). The CSB has similar strongarm intimidation tactics as other communist secret police from the past, such as the KGB or …