China’s Ministry of State Security insignia and headquarters building, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. If scammers stole your data, the Chinese government may now have it. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission has identified a disturbing new pattern in China’s regional expansion: Beijing is exploiting Chinese criminal networks operating massive scam centers across Southeast Asia as a pretext to deploy its internal security forces and gather intelligence throughout the region. This strategy is called the inside-out approach. The inside-out approach refers to how China builds influence and intelligence networks abroad by first embedding itself inside foreign criminal ecosystems and then pushing its reach outward into political, economic, and security spheres. Instead of starting with overt diplomatic or military tools, the CCP begins by cultivating…
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