Thread by @JMichaelWaller

Over his distinguished career, Nick Eftimiades consistently has been one of the top China intelligence experts in America. All serious people should follow his work. breakingdefense.com/2020/10/the-5-… @neftimiades

2) @neftimiades: "Chinese intelligence operations are the first in modern times to use, as a foundation, the whole of society. Because of this, China’s espionage tactics are sometimes artless ... instead relying on an overwhelming volume of espionage operations...."

3) @neftimiades: "... conducted by all manner of citizen and a sort of impunity inherent in the lack of substantive penalty for when a Chinese agent is discovered..."

In other words, our laws and traditional counterintelligence are obsolete when it comes to the CCP.

4) @neftimiades: "My study, A Series on Chinese Espionage — Vol. 1 Operations and Tactics peels back, layer by layer, the Chinese espionage apparatus at-work in the United States, finding a burgeoning audacity ..." shinobienterprises.com/publications

5) "... willingness to employ average people with little or no training" & "Whole of Society operational strategy marks an emboldened departure for an intelligence community that has historically been a hackneyed doppelgänger of the American CIA, British MI6, and Russian SVR."

6) @neftimiades: "Chinese espionage emphasizes the development of China’s industries and the theft of foreign wealth," using govt "agencies, organizations, commercial entities, individual entrepreneurs, Chinese expatriates, Chinese and foreign researchers...."

Anyone we know?

7) @neftimiades: Most Chinese foreign operatives work under one the following:

Central Military Commission (CMC) Joint Intelligence Bureau;

Ministry of State Security, China’s pre-eminent civilian intelligence service; and

State Owned Enterprises (SOE).

8) @neftimiades: "About 23 percent of all espionage analyzed in this report is committed by employees of these pseudo-commercial [State Owned Enterprises] entities."

My sidenote: These SOE's make lots of business deals with influential foreigners.