>But what happens when institutions responsible for building those capabilities are compromised by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?
The deep irony here is that no establishment institutions can be trusted to build those capabilities without being strongly influenced by the ruling elites of their own countries. Output from these institutions on China, Russia, Israel, Ukraine, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, etc. etc. cannot be trusted as they are typically infused with strong biases due to the roles as friend/adversary currently assigned to each of them by our ruling elites. This of course leads to (conveniently?) bad intelligence and even worse decisions (the Tren de Aragua nonsense, the mass arrests in the UK, and so forth). So the real question here is how we can get unbiased studies and accurate intelligence on other cultures, regardless of the source of outside interference.
The deep irony here is that no establishment institutions can be trusted to build those capabilities without being strongly influenced by the ruling elites of their own countries. Output from these institutions on China, Russia, Israel, Ukraine, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, etc. etc. cannot be trusted as they are typically infused with strong biases due to the roles as friend/adversary currently assigned to each of them by our ruling elites. This of course leads to (conveniently?) bad intelligence and even worse decisions (the Tren de Aragua nonsense, the mass arrests in the UK, and so forth). So the real question here is how we can get unbiased studies and accurate intelligence on other cultures, regardless of the source of outside interference.