How China’s top spy agency is going toe-to-toe with the CIA

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A game of ghosts Competition between the US and Chinese spy agencies harks back to the KGB-versus-CIA rivalry of the Cold War. In that era, the Soviets built an agency that could pilfer America’s most closely held secrets and run covert operations while also producing formidable political leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin. But there is a notable difference. Because of China’s economic boom and industrial policies, the MSS is able to use emerging technologies such as AI to challenge US spymasters in a way the Soviets could not. And those technologies are top prizes in espionage efforts by China...