{"id":131724,"date":"2025-06-25T09:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T09:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131724"},"modified":"2025-06-25T09:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T09:10:47","slug":"chinas-top-security-agency-mocks-cia-informant-drive-farcical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131724","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s top security agency mocks CIA informant drive: \u2018farcical\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s top intelligence agency says a recent CIA campaign aimed at recruiting informants from China is a sign the US spy agency is desperately looking for ways to survive as Washington slashes budgets.<br \/>\n\u201cYet, as resources shrink, the CIA has doubled down on hyping the \u2018China threat\u2019 as its lifeline, peddling fear to Congress and taxpayers to carve out a larger slice of the budget pie,\u201d the Ministry of State Security (MSS) said in an article published on Wednesday on its official WeChat&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3315782\/peddling-fear-chinas-top-security-agency-mocks-cia-spy-recruitment-drive-farcical?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s top intelligence agency says a recent CIA campaign aimed at recruiting informants from China is a sign the US spy agency is desperately&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}