It appears China has now moved from distrust of the US diaspora to quiet unrestricted war with Israeli intelligence and influence:
As reports of Israeli intelligence penetration intensified through 2025 and into early 2026, Beijing deepened its counterintelligence coordination with Tehran. Chinese security institutions moved from monitoring Mossad’s methods to analyzing their structural implications, treating Iran’s experience as a live operational case.
Beginning in January 2026, cooperation reportedly expanded to include joint assessments of infiltration pathways, digital vulnerabilities, and administrative access points exploited by foreign intelligence services. The breaches were understood not as isolated incidents but as indicators of systemic exposure requiring institutional response.
Through the Ninth Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, China began implementing a comprehensive strategy in January 2026 to dismantle Israeli and US spy networks in Iran. As China strengthens Iran’s digital sovereignty, Beijing is urging Tehran to abandon western software and replace it with secure, encrypted Chinese systems that are difficult to penetrate, essentially building a digital “Great Wall.”
The objective extended beyond immediate breach containment. It centered on insulating critical infrastructure that underpins Belt and Road trade corridors from sustained intelligence disruption.
China also promoted integration of its BeiDou navigation system as an alternative to western GPS platforms, reducing exposure to signal interference and enhancing guidance independence for missile and drone systems. Radar upgrades, including platforms such as the YLC-8B, reportedly strengthened detection capabilities, including against stealth aircraft.
The expansion of the Great Firewall of China to BRICS would be a significant step toward the great bifurcation of the global economy that I’ve been anticipating for years. And speeding up that bifurcation is likely to be one consequence of the present US/Israeli-Iranian War, whether or not it actually goes hot or not.