[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]

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