China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show

[huntero]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/china-harvests-masses-of-data-on-western-targets-documents-show/2021/12/31/3981ce9c-538e-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html

[bell-cot]

Is it just me, or does the article amount to "a huge intelligence community is gathering intelligence data on a huge scale"?

Perhaps the article's target audience is the young and naive? Because as "news", it seems right up there with "most teenage boys think very often about sex".

[datashaman → bell-cot]

Exactly. And there are certainly masses of data collected by Western countries’ intelligence agencies on China. It’s what they do.