CHAPTER 7: CHINA’S SIGINT CAPABILITIES
China and information warfare (IW): Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Electronic Warfare (EW) and Cyberwarfare (CW)
“By knowing the enemy and knowing yourself, you can fight a hundred battles and win them all”.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
China is actively and extensively engaged in signals intelligence (SIGINT), electronic warfare (EW) and cyberwarfare activities. It ranks as the leader in Asia, in some important information warfare (IW) areas. China maintains the most extensive SIGINT capabilities of all the Asian countries. China has more SIGINT ground stations. Most of these were obtained from the Soviet Union in the 1950s, such as the large Krug circularly disposed antenna array (CDAA), and the Moon systems ...
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