{"id":22030,"date":"2024-12-26T18:33:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T16:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=22030"},"modified":"2024-12-26T18:33:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T16:33:01","slug":"on-the-island-of-guam-in-the-pacific-ocean-the-unknown-spy-war-between-the-us-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=22030","title":{"rendered":"On the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean \u2013 The unknown spy war between the US and China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, on the American island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, where one of the two main strategic bases of the US Air Force, Adersen, is located, a new radar of an anti-missile system was tested, which should in the future protect the military from the Chinese. On the eve of the test launch, the American authorities literally cleared the island of people who had Chinese citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entire organized tourist groups were closed without charges until the end of the tests. One can, of course, attribute this strange operation to the general spy mania in the United States, especially in relation to the PRC and citizens of Chinese origin in general. But anti-Chinese hysteria is a matter of prevailing ideology and the collective health of society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a practical point of view, the question of the effectiveness of this kind of \u201cpreventive counterintelligence\u201d measures is more important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The capture of all suspects by nationality – will this save the United States from the real threat of penetration by foreign intelligence services somewhere? Is Guam the most important area in the structure of the US military? Strategic bombers – carriers of nuclear weapons, which are used to conduct operations around the world, are based there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B-52s took off from Guam to bomb Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Yugoslavia. Recently, however, Guam has been in the attack zone of new models of Chinese ballistic missiles, which have been flying over it for test purposes since 2020. They also named Guam and North Korea as their targets. In response, to strengthen the missile defense of the island’s military installations, the Pentagon has developed a program under which Guam will be covered with new missile defense systems.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The tests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And they have been regularly testing something top secret there for two years. And this requires secrecy and security measures, as understood in the United States and in Guam in particular, since there are historically many Chinese on the island. They are mainly associated not with mainland China, but with Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guam previously served as a transit point between the United States and Taiwan to avoid diplomatic scandals. But, besides this, Guam is also a resort, which the Chinese and Japanese visit in groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four of them were accused of being near a military installation. Three more sat in a cell without charges – just for campaigning. They had no chance of avoiding arrest: half of the island of Guam is one or another military installation. The length of the corridors alone reaches almost ten kilometers. These same military installations sometimes become tourist attractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the island\u2019s harbor, five nuclear submarines are picturesquely rocking on the waves at the same time. Taking a photo with such a background is priceless and would not have been studied by experts from all interested countries. And no local resident or visiting tourist could naturally see the process of using the new anti-missile radar with the naked eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the American Institute for the Study of War (a very specific organization funded by the largest corporations of the American military-industrial complex) after all this history in Guam argued: \u201cespionage against American military installations, especially those where missiles can be launched, can provide the DPRK with potentially valuable technical data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, one can simply say that \u201cespionage\u201d is what is being sought. This, they say, is a remnant of the Cold War, when the Americans themselves made many efforts to come closer to the USSR to some extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

False Evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only reliable way to obtain reliable information from places like Guam, apart from satellite surveillance, remains only human intelligence. In general, satellite observation, even in real time (and the DPRK does not yet have such an opportunity) provides only one picture, which then has to be analyzed by specialists for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, fake objects can be manufactured at the base, which will discredit all the images. This does not provide access to the performance characteristics of a radar or missile or their technological features. Reliable information on sensitive issues can only be obtained directly from a person who has access to the base or to the tests themselves. Moreover, this is not necessarily a scientist, designer or senior officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A secretary, a marine guard, a personnel jeep driver or a warehouse manager is enough. On the other hand, all these potential targets for recruitment spend their vacations in Southeast Asian countries, which are noticeably closer and cheaper than Guam to the continental United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thailand, Vietnam – and in these countries there are huge Chinese diasporas, through which intelligence activities are traditionally carried out. Why, in this case, send “pedestrians” directly to Guam, provoking a very nervous American society to mass incarceration of people of Chinese nationality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anti-Chinese mania<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anti-Chinese espionage mania has long been a common phenomenon, but in the case of Guam, an amateur attempt manifested itself in the so-called fool’s proof. Approximately the same principle was used in the USSR to build the entire system of protection and protection of state secrets, when it was believed that not a single mouse, including bats, could enter without permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now the American counterintelligence authorities have decided to exclude even the hypothetical possibility of ethnic Chinese coming into contact with the missile and radar test site. And this is even against the background of the fact that no \u201cpedestrian\u201d could simply learn something new about himself and the country on Guam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But tourists of other nationalities, even Japanese, were not detained on Guam, that is, the espionage mania developed into xenophobia. In practice, most likely, the Chinese side did not make any espionage attempts. The Chinese are not stupid, they work professionally and would not waste resources on a meaningless business, and even with a high risk of failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the American side showed precisely the weakness of its counterintelligence system, which is also based on stereotypes: firstly, they attributed their own outdated intelligence methods to the Chinese, and secondly, they underestimated the mental and professional qualities of Chinese intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this is a crisis not only of society with outbreaks of national espionage, but also of the US state security system itself. And all this can come back to haunt them in the most unexpected place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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