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Chinese ‘students’ keep getting arrested at Key West Navy base

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48 pointsdfsegoat15 comments

Speaking of civil rights, any guesses as to what would happen to the average Chinese citizen that attempted any these same feats while in China and this time at PLA bases?

What if non-citizens tried?

In some of the reports that happened at the U.S. bases describe in the article, the security forces were probably well within the rights of the law to use deadly force to stop the trespassers [1]

[1] https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:50%20section:...

From my experience, Chinese police and authority in general are extremely lenient on first time offenders. You will usually get a stern lecture and warned never to do it again.

If you’re a non-citizen, you’ll probably be monitored for awhile.

However if you continue to get in trouble, then the punishment can increase exponentially.

Strangely, in some cases, they would just take you on a vacation [1] to get you away from the area.

1. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/chinas-bizarre...

Is this perhaps a distraction and the real spies are already working there as civilian contractors? No intelligent person is going to blow past military police and assume they will gain access to anything.

Yeah, feels like the tip of the iceberg.

It could also be a probe, to test their defenses

If it's really a concern, let's take a drop from the ocean of the defense budget and stick armed guards by the gate they keep ignoring. They will ignore an unmanned fence. They won't ignore a pointed rifle.

Given the incompetence I'm not sure this isn't just mentally ill Chinese citizens LARPing.

It wouldn't be impossible to give a trained person a phone app that auto sends the pictures into the cloud then deletes them, leaving tourist pics for instance.

Fun project, set up a web site in Russia that pays people for photos at certain locations in the US and on sells them to who ever wants to buy them.

Cleaners and grunts get beer money, China gets photos. You take a cut. Everyone happy.

This has to be common knowledge on here, but:

You know that pokemon go basically fits this description, right?

And that the developer (keyhole Inc) was a cia nga contractor / incubator project that made the precursor version of Google Earth years ago.

What better way to get real time photo intelligence of a location than to drop a Picachu right in front and wait for the pics to come rolling in.

I suspect that the Chinese and Russians have attempted to mimic this ability. Maybe we're seeing it play out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hanke

This is an issue as there is a large sigint site at the Truman Annex. Makes me think they are seeing what antennas and other items exist there watching Cuba. Maybe China has some interest in Cuba now? As far as sigint sites go, this one is the most accessible due to being the southern most point in the USA. We always had problems with tourist wandering up the beach and around the fence.

Venezuela as well? Basing that on suspected sigint flights near there lately:

https://twitter.com/Simon85205764/status/1221842394745884673...

Hard to walk up to an rc-135 in flight.

Was referring more to the fact that the rc135s are going to be plugged into that entire sigint network that is running out of Truman annex

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