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China employs a “whole of society” approach to espionage, using both its intelligence services, as well as purportedly private Chinese companies, Chinese nationals, and diaspora communities. China’s strategy is to overwhelm Western counterintelligence, if not through sophisticated espionage tradecraft, then by volume.

Othman was the director of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission.

However, these systems have an unfortunate tendency to concentrate power often excessively,