Chen Yixin of the CCP's state security apparatus floated the words "defend the Party Central Committee to the death," reflecting the turbulent infighting at the top of the Party and drawing outside attention to political developments.
On September 30, on the occasion of the 13th Martyrs' Day, the Ministry of State Security held a memorial ceremony for heroes of the clandestine front at the Unknown Heroes Memorial Plaza in Xishan, Beijing. Minister of State Security Chen Yixin attended and delivered a speech.
On September 13, State Security Minister Chen Yixin published a signed article in a magazine, listing political security as the primary risk of artificial intelligence and demanding adherence to the Party's comprehensive leadership, warning of overseas AI leakage risks and proposing the establishment of a regulatory platform. On the same day, Anthropic released a report stating that local public security and state security in China had used Claude to monitor residents, rights defenders, and overseas dissenters.
Chen Yixin, China's Minister of State Security, published a signed article on China Cyberspace on September 13, incorporating six major risks arising from artificial intelligence into the national security system, placing political security first, and naming the large models of Anthropic and OpenAI for raising the level of weaponization of cyberattacks. This is the first time China's top intelligence agency has systematically expounded on AI risks.
Chen Yixin, former director of the Policy Research Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, has succeeded Chen Wenqing as Minister of State Security.