hilariously blinkered article, the projection about "stovepiping" is a fun moment (Chalabi has entered the chat)
good comment from r/sino
What perked my ears up more than anything was the claim that since China has improved the systems of investigation regarding unknown increases of income, it has become ever more difficult to bribe sources.
On one hand, you're directly telling China that it's working beautifully. But even more importantly, you are admitting that the only real way to gain such intelligence is through bribes. Which means it's not going to be because a source believes in what America wants to do, not because the source feels oppressed by China, or wants to hurt China, but only out of greed. Says so much while saying so little.
Then you take a look at all the revolutionary defectors like the atomic spies or Kendall Meyers, who did it for their believe in communism :fidel-salute-big:
the anti corruption campaign... is targeting corruption?????? literally 1984
It's one of the ways that Mao won the civil war. The Nationalists were corrupt as fuck and happily took bribes.
After the war was over they received the reward that traitors deserve.
Related
https://archive.md/fpcvw
(the cope is very satisfying to read, "gathering intelligence" vs "stolen data" double standard through the article)
China “collects bulk personal data to help it track dissidents or other perceived enemies of China around the world,” Evanina, the top U.S. counterintelligence official, said.
:snowden:
"you see when we do it, it's good"
paywall so here's the archive link for others
https://archive.md/fpcvw
Thank you for the archive link comrade (I updated mine also) :deng-salute:
