Wanna join the losing team right before the finals?

This is the worst spycraft I could ever imagine

At first I thought this was a leak, but no they are just very open about wanting spies in the CPC.

I feel like Trump operates on the assumption that no one will react to counteract whatever strategy he implements. It's the simplest answer I can think of.

Also lmao, all the things they listed as reasons why someone would want to defect (firing, jailed, disappeared) are things the US government has done this year

Big brain strategy: show up to be a spy for the CIA but secretly be a spy for China the whole time

The Mandarin-language videos are modeled on a series of videos the agency made in recent years asking Russians to spy for the United States, appeals that previous C.I.A. leaders said helped develop new sources.

Sure...

Last year the C.I.A. released instructions in Mandarin [on Youtube] about how people in China could safely use the dark web to contact the agency. The text-only instructional video was viewed 900,000 times. While the Chinese internet is locked down and censored, American officials believe that more sophisticated Chinese officials know how to work around those controls.

Aren't VPNs very common in China?

Here is how NYT described the videos:

Having my fake CIA application thrown out when they realize I'm doing a bit

You're getting the death sentence in China if you're caught for this. No doubt about it.

Maybe you'll be offered either death sentence or double agent (closely monitored).

Anyway the applications for this thing are going to be absolutely filled with loyal CPC agents. If I were China I would send my spies to apply as spies for the Americans.

"....and he just...just tweeted it out."

Good idea, CIA. Tell everyone about the super secret communication networks you have so the opponent doesn't know what to look for. Once again, former KGB must be absolutely seething.

Lol. Lmao, even.

Spies get executed in the PRC, and not to mention, the quality of life is always improving there, why seek to destroy good things? The only people falling for this have already been in the west for too long and think liberalism works

This is theatre for American libs to make them think China must be bad if the poor chinese wanna spy and the CIA is getting responses to this.

Hey, agents reading this, all of us speak fluent mandarin. Please give us money.

'applicants can reply directly to this twitter post, thank you'

Looking forward to the trial and execution.

There was news in China recently about the CEO of Gree Electric, Dong Mingzhu, saying she would not hire graduates returned from overseas as some are spies. I don't know if this CIA push is also designed to increase distrust of overseas Chinese. The timing doesn't line up because the videos would have taken time to produce, so it's probably coincidental/reflective of the genral trend.

When in the country recently I also saw many public notices about improving the general awareness of national security.

All this to say that this issue does appear to be within the public conscience in China, so the CIA is likely to want to either nudge that towards paranoia and or take advantage of Chinese nationals who may have not considered becoming informants till this all became news.

China is gonna use this and feed them fake information

They should do the latina recruitment ad again but with a Chinese guy.

There is no way the goal is what they stated. They're obviously not stupid enough to believe any party member would go through with this that wasn't already an agent for Chinese intelligence services. Is this just to provoke China? Is this some sort of cover because they have a means of poking China with some information that they collected elsewhere? Gotta be more than meets the eye.

Surely it can't be a coincidence that CIA decided to publish this on International Labor Day. I was reading the Chinese MFA this morning for news updates and it said they were closed for the national holiday.

Also this seems to confirm that there isn't ever going to be tariff negotiations. Why should China do trade negotiations with a country that is trying to install spies?

lmao they're gonna get some double agents up there

Damn they've gotten really lazy haven't they.

You what

did they run out of live boys and dead prostitutes to blackmail officials with? is the communist party engaged in volcelism?