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https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/1…
This is an interesting read....talks about the spying and intel war that has been going on between China and the USA over the past two decades.
One thing I had never heard before is that the CIA apparently infiltrated the CCP to an amazing degree in the early 2000s by exploiting the corrupt nature of their system. It got to the point where the US government was paying a large portion of the bribes used to advance up the ladder in the party, military etc. But around 2010 this was uncovered and most of these people were imprisoned or executed.
It helps explain Xi Jinping's "anti corruption" campaign which kicked off around that time and extreme paranoia that everything opposing them (such as Hong Kong protests etc) is actually the CIA.
China then successfully hacked into the US government and obtained personal info on 21 million government employees (this part was widely reported at the time) which seriously damaged any effort to get intel on China moving forward.