Plenty of other sources including Forbes and USA Today.

It’s worth noting that China’s National Intelligence Law requires that all organizations and citizens support, assist, and cooperate with national intelligence efforts. In other words, every Chinese tourist is expected to act as a spy.

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    Actually entering a military facility which is not open to the public and taking pictures is definitely against the law, and should be handled as such.

    Being in a legally publicly accessible place, and taking pictures from that place, is not, and should not be illegal. If they don’t want pictures taken from that space, the space would need to be redesignated as a priavte part of the facility, without public access, or have barriers erected to block line of sight (or both).

    Side note: Forbes is a crap non-journalistic site now, avoid using it as a reference.

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      Side note: Forbes is a crap non-journalistic site now, avoid using it as a reference.

      LOL. No.

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        Yeah, it used to be a real source for solid business journalism. It’s really not anymore.

        It’s been majority owned by a Hong Kong investment group since 2014, and some billionaire is now under contract to acquire an 82% stake.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes

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      The article says they just hang nearby and take photos, which is kinda hard to prevent. Or just speed onto the base, which normally ends pretty badly for them.

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      I have been on several as a tourist. We turned the wrong way and ended up on base visiting a museum and lighthouse in Pensacola FL. Our cruise ship docked at a base in Key West FL. They told us not to take pictures as they bussed us across. A highway goes through the national laboratory in Los Alamos NM. Again, the guards tell you to drive straight through without taking pictures.

      But how would they know? What could you actually see that doesn’t show up on Google maps? And what if you drive a car with cameras like Tesla?

      Edit: Not Chinese, and have never taken pictures in these cases. I learned a long time ago that there are amazing pictures of everywhere on Google. The only ones that matter have my family in them.

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        I’ve worked on the base in Pensacola with the museum. Those places are specifically open to the public. Further on past the lighthouse and museum is another checkpoint preventing the public from entering the rest of the base.