China’s Ministry of State Security has claimed that foreign espionage and intelligence agencies are using new methods to monitor the country’s waters, including deploying spy animals fitted with sensors. Beijing called it an “invisible secret war” that was occurring in the seas around the country.
Per The Guardian, this warning was shared on Chinese platform WeChat on Friday, stating that foreign agencies were collecting sensitive data “through a variety of new spying devices” to produce underwater maps which can “pose a serious threat to national security.” The ministry claimed that large marine animals were being used as part of the espionage techniques, including spy turtles and spy fish, that were found “attached to sensors.”
