Florida Conservative

Chinese technology and intelligence capabilities have already become relevant to Iranian surveillance of American forces, although there is presently no public evidence establishing a Djibouti-to-Tehran intelligence pipeline. That distinction matters, but so does the question it raises: whether China's growing ability to collect regional intelligence might eventually provide Beijing with another means of indirectly influencing conflicts without becoming an overt participant.

Senator Tom Cotton’s proposed overhaul of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is not simply a bureaucratic reform—it’s a strategic reversion to the pre-9/11 intelligence architecture.