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Global Watch | How Chinese spy agencies deceived the world through ‘Grains of Sand’ theory
FirstpostFor the CCP and Xi Jinping, the Chinese espionage network is the most effective tool to dominate the world. Roger Faligot mentions one of the least discussed aspects of Chinese intelligence in Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping, “The word Qingbao in Chinese has two meanings: ‘intelligence’ and ‘information’… The concept becomes even more interesting when one studies the Chinese characters and roots of the word Qingbao. Peter Mattis busts the myths perpetrated by Chinese agencies and lapped up by many China analysts in ‘The Analytic Challenge of Understanding Chinese Intelligence Services’. These efforts have been equated with Chinese intelligence collection and have been labelled the ‘mosaic’ or ‘grains of sand’ approach. Instead of looking for the structure, mission and intelligence officers behind the CCP’s influence efforts, the ‘grains of sand’ theory makes it easier to assume they’re largely autonomous and driven by ethnic Chinese patriots… Mattis criticised the theory for wrongly framing the threat in racial terms, when China’s intelligence agencies have comfortably recruited people without Chinese heritage.
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