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Strictly speaking, SOE was not tasked to operate inside China after 1943, when it was left to the [[United States|Americans]]. However, one group, [[Mission 204]], formally known as 204 British Military Mission to China and also known as Tulip Force attempted to provide assistance to the Chinese Nationalist Army. The first phase achieved very little but a second more successful phase was conducted before the [[Operation Ichi-Go|''Ichi-Go'']] offensive forced their withdrawal in 1944.
The [[British Army Aid Group]] under an officer named [[Lindsay Tasman Ride|Lindsay "Blue" Ride]] did operate near Hong Kong, in territory controlled by the [[Chinese Communist Party
In Operation Remorse, a businessman named [[Walter Fletcher (politician)|Walter Fletcher]] carried out covert economic operations such as trying to obtain smuggled rubber, currency speculation and so on, in Japanese-occupied China. As a result of these activities, SOE actually returned a financial profit of GBP 77 million in the Far East (aided by an accountant at SOE HQ in London, John Venner).<ref>Bailey (2009), p.278</ref> Many of these funds and the networks used to acquire them were subsequently used in various relief and repatriation operations, but critics pointed out that this created a pool of money that SOE could use beyond the oversight of any normal authority or accountability.
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