Yes. Chinese clandestine spying, hacking is vast, but China's OSINT is also impressive. Their OSINT apparatus is the largest and most institutionalized in the world. The human scale and state-civil integration is something we don't have in the west. "Thousand Grains of Sand" operational model: Industrial-scale, lawful or gray-zone scraping of public databases, academic journals, LinkedIn profiles, and commercial data.
100,000 full-time personnel within its Science and Technology Intelligence (STI) network alone
They map foreign supply chains, track emerging R&D, identify vulnerable human targets, and privdie 80% of baseline intelligence needs at low cost and no political risk.
There is so much free information floating there, and Chinese find and distribute that information systematically. NSA may collect stuff but they don't extract economic and political value from it like Chinese do.
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Yes. Chinese clandestine spying, hacking is vast, but China's OSINT is also impressive. Their OSINT apparatus is the largest and most institutionalized in the world. The human scale and state-civil integration is something we don't have in the west. "Thousand Grains of Sand" operational model: Industrial-scale, lawful or gray-zone scraping of public databases, academic journals, LinkedIn profiles, and commercial data.
100,000 full-time personnel within its Science and Technology Intelligence (STI) network alone
They map foreign supply chains, track emerging R&D, identify vulnerable human targets, and privdie 80% of baseline intelligence needs at low cost and no political risk.
There is so much free information floating there, and Chinese find and distribute that information systematically. NSA may collect stuff but they don't extract economic and political value from it like Chinese do.
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