CNN: China is believed to pressure or incentivize ordinary civilians into doing what one official termed “nuisance surveillance” over a variety of military targets, some highly sensitive, some less so. In other instances, those sources say, Chinese nationals inside the US appear to take it upon themselves to spy with no direct order from a Chinese intelligence official.
US officials are worried about the potential for something worse: a lone-wolf-style terrorist attack on critical US infrastructure or civilian targets. Although two US officials with knowledge of the latest intelligence said there’s no indication of an active plot by Iranian proxy groups or other terror groups like ISIS, the obvious opportunity is there…