Gu Shunzhang

It is entirely about institutional memory.

Under President Xi Jinping, the intelligence apparatus, you know, specifically the Ministry of State Security, the Guoanbu, and the digital divisions of the Strategic Support Force, they've undergone a massive reorganization.

Oh, absolutely massive.

It has been elevated to a superpower status that rivals and honestly in many sectors surpasses the CIA, MI6, or the old Soviet KGB.

Right.

Xi has centralized his power, styling himself as the supreme leader of the military, and he is utilizing an intelligence machine that has an unbroken century-long operational philosophy.

So to understand the Guoanbu hackers or operatives today, you really do have to understand the ghosts that were hovering in the room at that 2017 ceremony.

Exactly.