Machine Overmatch: What Salt Typhoon Reveals About China’s Data-Centric Intelligence Strategy (warontherocks.com)

• Salt Typhoon campaigns showcase China's data-centric espionage model.
• Mass data collection from US telecoms and infrastructure enables societal modeling.
• US intelligence advantage paradigm challenged by China's scalable data approach.

"This War on the Rocks analysis examines how Salt Typhoon's cyber campaigns against US telecommunications and infrastructure reveal China's shift from traditional 'exquisite' intelligence to data-centric espionage. By collecting massive digital exhaust, analyzing rapidly, and operationalizing at scale, China can model entire societies. The US must rethink its intelligence advantage paradigm."