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China’s Shadow Intel Market Is Selling the Iran War Back to Washington Chinese firms are turning the Iran war into a commercial product: satellite mosaics, carrier tracking, airbase maps, and slick AI analysis branded as “exposing” U.S. forces. Beijing can keep its official distance while private companies do the dirty work in public. That is the real threat here. Even if some of the firms are overstating what they can see, the model still matters: open-source data, machine learning, and military-linked firms can package U.S. movements fast enough to hand adversaries a usable picture of the battlefield. The Washington Post notes that some firms have links to the PLA, while U.S. lawmakers are already treating the trend as a live security problem, not a theoretical one. That fits Beijing’s larger playbook: private-sector deniability outside, strategic benefit inside. So the war is no longer just being fought with missiles and drones. It is also being priced, mapped, and resold by companies that treat an American deployment as a market opportunity. #China#Iran#USmilitary#AI#intelligence 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸