Seeding Entropy

Context: China’s spy threat is growing, but the West has struggled to keep up

…oh yes, and we might also ask: to what extent is the burbling, percolating insecurity of incessant intrusion, theft and deceptive misdirection actually a necessary and sustaining precondition for the continuity of a constitutively repressive political system?

Is the invocation, cultivation and complex systemic entanglement of intrusive and/or obstructive skulduggery a critical dependency of authoritarian control and, if so, how might this regrettable constellation of geopolitical facts and information insecurities be most sensiby addressed without simply amplifying the problem?

Answers probably lie in plain sight here. Questions, however, prove to be of considerably more value when interdicting intractable, intransigent strategic complexity…