The history of intelligence in the UK and China is different in many ways, and we can look at the historical contrast of what intelligence means in the two nations. Over the past 100 years or so, British intelligence services, both at home and abroad, have built up a wealth of experience, much of it during the Cold War. But spying is regulated by society: there are laws, regulations and strictures on what British spies can do.
In China, you have to look at the history of a particular institution: the Communist
