https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-espionage-idUSK...
>Investigators remain divided over whether there was a spy within the Central Intelligence Agency who betrayed the sources or whether the Chinese hacked the CIA’s covert communications system, the newspaper reported, citing current and former U.S. officials.
>The Chinese killed at least a dozen people providing information to the CIA from 2010 through 2012, dismantling a network that was years in the making, the newspaper reported.
>One was shot and killed in front of a government building in China, three officials told the Times, saying that was designed as a message to others about working with Washington.
Yeah, unless you are suspected for terrorism. I recommend the movie named The Mauritanian.
> Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Arabic: محمدو ولد الصلاحي) (born December 21, 1970) is a Mauritanian man who was detained at Guantánamo Bay detention camp without charge from 2002 until his release on October 17, 2016.
> The book, Guantánamo Diary, was published in January 2015. It is the first work by a still-imprisoned detainee at Guantánamo. It provides details of Slahi's harsh interrogations and torture, including being "force-fed seawater, sexually molested, subjected to a mock execution and repeatedly beaten, kicked and smashed across the face, all spiced with threats that his mother will be brought to Guantánamo and gang-raped.[1]
In a country so large with so many different government agencies, entities, organizations, and interests, just about anything you can think of will have happened at some point. The question is whether it's going on at large scale, whether it's the common practice or rare.
You're trying to use one example to prove that the practice is common, when in fact that's false, it's not common it's rare. It's the exception, not the rule; which is exactly why it makes for an attention getting story.
How do we know it is not happening though? Think about pre-Snowden.
USA doesn't have massive global interest. Maybe its companies, but not it's state. USA is a very insular, and static system of a state.
It's a good example what happens in those very few cases when the machine of US state moves, and what is characteristic of it.
A meaningful political reform will start with somebody starting to uncork it, and forcefully subjecting it to contact with outside world.
Even still, do you expect any intelligence agency to be perfect? I’m not sure what point you’re trying to prove here.
This itself is American propoganda; the strategy is to be absolutely all over your opponents, knowing that they can't complain about it for fear of looking weak, while complaining loudly about how their meagre attempts are the end of the world, getting public and Congressional support for more spending.
Before the Snowden leaks, someone suggesting the US had the SIGINT capacities they actually did have would have be laughed out of serious circles as a crank, and you better believe they haven't been sat still over the 8 years since.
It would certainly reduce their enthusiasm for hacking.
In absolute terms I'm pretty sure China has us at sea and in cyber so...
Not the US
>Citing the Office of Naval Intelligence, a Congressional Research Service report from March notes that the People’s Liberation Army Navy, or PLAN, was slated to have 360 battle force ships by the end of 2020, dwarfing the U.S. fleet of 297 ships.
[1](https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/04/12/chinas-n...)
Also, despite the huge waste that is inherent in it - no one has bases like the US does. We have forward operating bases all over the middle east, geographically separated units all over east europe, africa, asian pacific, and military bases all over europe and every key point of the united states. Nasa never quite got launches down but we do have some of the most advanced satellite, imagery and other military instruments. look up number of military spacecraft by country.
Whether it's moral or not is an entirely different question, but there is a reason the international monetary fund has a weight 44% USD; It's not because all the other countries like us that's for sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Craft_%E2%8...
[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_progr...)
I am not sure what your point is. By number of ships, they are the biggest. I have no idea how important aircraft carrier fleet is.
I.e. who cares if you have the most swordsmen on the planet, if you in a gunfight.
It’s the most important part of a modern blue water navy and has been since WW2. The US also has a world-dominating submarine fleet.
Don't worry I don't take your comments as rude.