China’s communist regime is investing in new ways to exploit open-source intelligence (OSINT) to undermine the United States and gain military advantage, according to a new report.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, is contracting new research and analysis services to compile actionable intelligence from publicly available sources throughout the world, says the report (pdf), published this month by threat intelligence firm Recorded Future.
The report claims that the CCP’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), is increasingly benefiting from a growing apparatus of organizations designed to siphon off U.S. and allied intelligence for its own purposes….