MSS is less secretive partly because the world has changed greatly and it is much tougher to do anything secretly and also much less necessary because of national technical means. Also of course to recruit people and to improve its own image and Chinas image. China isn't a sponsor of terrorism and that's about the only remaining thing to be secretive about: though of course the struggle against terrorism still requires secrecy, but the secrecy is toward terrorists or individuals somehow related (sometimes literally) to terrorists or terrorism -- the target of most secrecy is not state actors.
MSS is less secretive partly because the world has changed greatly and it is much tougher to do anything secretly and also much less necessary because of national technical means. Also of course to recruit people and to improve its own image and Chinas image. China isn't a sponsor of terrorism and that's about the only remaining thing to be secretive about: though of course the struggle against terrorism still requires secrecy, but the secrecy is toward terrorists or individuals somehow related (sometimes literally) to terrorists or terrorism -- the target of most secrecy is not state actors.
What is this article really saying? Seems like not much... Hard to tell if this was for publication in SCMP or China Daily?