Why It Matters: Beijing’s open-source intelligence collection could give it an advantage.
As the relationship between the United States and China has become more adversarial, both countries are investing more in their intelligence collection capabilities.
For example, the report details some of the work one prominent Chinese open-source intelligence company has done to analyze publicly available insights from the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon’s in-house think tank.
Naval War College has a China Maritime Studies Institute, and it produces a lot of open-source research on China,” said Zoe Haver, a threat intelligence analyst with Recorded Future.
China’s secret intelligence-gathering abilities have grown in leaps and bounds in recent decades, and Beijing’s investment in open-source information has intensified over the last decade.
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Organizations:
Naval War College, U.S . Naval, China Maritime Studies Institute, ”, ., China’s, Liberation Army
Locations:
United States, China, Newport, R.I, Taiwan, States, Beijing