1,000 Spies for Every 10 From the West: Ex-Military Officer Lifts the Lid on CCP Spy Tactics

In this photo illustration, hacker types on a computer keyboard on May 13, 2025. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch TimesIt could be something as ordinary as a stray USB stick left in a carpark, or an innocent chat with an attractive new social media “friend,” but these seemingly benign interactions are actual tactics used by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spies.That’s the warning from an intelligence expert who says for every 10 people employed by Western security agencies, the CCP intelligence network has about 1,000—likely because it uses members of the Chinese diaspora abroad.