{"id":225294,"date":"2023-02-06T19:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=225294"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T08:58:36","slug":"spy-in-the-sky-chinas-espionage-balloons-or-espionage-ships-are-part-of-an-aggressive-strategy-that-can-target-india-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/spy-in-the-sky-chinas-espionage-balloons-or-espionage-ships-are-part-of-an-aggressive-strategy-that-can-target-india-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Spy In The Sky – China\u2019s espionage balloons or espionage ships are part of an aggressive strategy that can target India too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article \u201cSpy In The Sky – China\u2019s espionage balloons or espionage ships are part of an aggressive strategy that can target India too\u201d <\/strong>published in The Times of India <\/b>on 6th February 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 India and its neighbourhood- relations.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About Chinese espionage capabilities.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Recently, the US forces shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the US coast. There are reports that a second spy balloon is already flying over Central and South America. This has strained relations between the US and China and has larger implications for India-China relations.<\/p>\n

Why Chinese espionage capabilities\u00a0is a cause of worry for Global nations, particularly India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

a)<\/strong> The recent one wasn\u2019t the first Chinese surveillance balloon to be detected but was the most sophisticated one. Hence, Chinese spy tech is getting increasingly sophisticated.<\/p>\n

b)<\/strong> Last year\u2019s docking of a Chinese spy ship masquerading as a research vessel at Sri Lanka\u2019s Hambantota port was another example of Beijing\u2019s growing espionage capabilities.<\/p>\n

c)<\/strong> Chinese definitions of government and civilian assets are superficial. For instance, the Chinese mentioned the balloon as a weather-monitoring device and the 2020 investigation revealed a Chinese technology firm was harvesting data on more than 10,000 influential individuals in India.<\/p>\n

What should be done to address Chinese espionage capabilities?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

a)<\/strong> All cooperation with Chinese civilian agencies and businesses needs to be seen with the security of the state, b)<\/strong> India needs to upgrade its hi-tech counter-espionage measures, and c)<\/strong> the Indian government is in urgent need to step up counter-intelligence cooperation with the US and other likeminded democracies to counter China\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSpy In The Sky – China\u2019s espionage balloons or espionage ships are part of an aggressive strategy that can target India too\u201d published in The Times of India on 6th February 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 India and its neighbourhood- relations. Relevance: About Chinese espionage capabilities. News:… Continue reading Spy In The Sky – China\u2019s espionage balloons or espionage ships are part of an aggressive strategy that can target India too<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-225294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700791484,"cached_date":1704918116},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}