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China Is Collecting Militarily Useful Weather Data Abroad
A global meteorological warning system has become an excuse for China to embed AI-feeding weather stations on foreign territory, gathering data that would help its armed forces in war.
Solomon Islands and countries surrounding India are among the many locations at which the system is collecting weather data, and perhaps other information, then sending it back to China.
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