But Prof. ANDREW, Prof. LYLE at the
Naval War College do understand "
what PLA try to disclose to the world"
they hire a bunch of Chinese language specialists in their team to decipher the PLA development, piece by piece!!
The Requirements for a good competent intelligence specialists are three fold.
1.) He must have good language skills of that target country.
2.) He must be educated in the field that he is trying to decipher.
3.) He must willing to work for the "modest" salary of being an intelligence analyst, instead of the field he was educated, which often pays a lot more than a government intelligence agency salary.
So, for US to get good intelligence on Chinese aeronautical development, those analysts must able to read and write Chinese, must have a degree or substantial background in aeronautical, and willing to get pay $60k-80k a year.
Unfortunately, the first part of hiring a Chinese speaker to work in CIA is a big problem. This candidate must pass a through security ground check. That he has no family connections in China, that he has no regular contacts with Chinese nationals, that he can not make undeclared private trips to China. . .etc.
This is practically eliminated a native Chinese speaker.
And what you got is someone who is born in the US, with no family in China and probably barely know any Chinese language.
As for a aeronautical engineer, $60-$80k per year is the starting salary for a new grad.
So who with a aeronautical degree and can speaks and write Chinese, wants to work in CIA, for $60-80k per year?
What's that mean?
It means CIA is getting B.S. from "journalists" who don't know Chinese, who don't know aeronautics as intelligences.
Those "journalists/analysts" can't read Chinese, and they can't read technical papers, even in English.
The secret is there are vast amount of aeronautics technical papers, in Chinese language, on the Internet, for anyone to read.
The Chinese state/military secrets, are open to anyone, who wants to learn them.