Finished reading @zachsdorfman's 3-part series on espionage dance between China/CIA. Packed w/great reporting/detail Zach fleshes out how mutual spying and power dynamics unfolded over last decade w/ focus on massive hacking campaigns. Highly recommend foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/21/chi…
Here's part 2 - How U.S. intelligence on China was at a nadir as Xi was rising. foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/22/chi…
And part 3 - how China's intelligence services co-opted its tech companies to assist with processing the massive amounts of data China has stolen through hacking ops foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/23/chi…
I particularly liked the detail about how the CIA supplied Chinese spy recruits with bribery money that they could use to climb their way up the corrupt Chinese bureaucracy ladder where they would be in more influential positions and have access to better intel to provide the US
“Paying their bribes was an example of long-term thinking that was extraordinary for us. Recruiting foreign military officers is nearly impossible. [So this] was a way to exploit the corruption to our advantage" and move spies up the chain of command to make them more valuable.
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