The document shows that China is collecting a large amount of data on western targets from Twitter and Facebook.

China is mining social media platforms including: [Facebook] When [twitter] , Collect data on military, police, and western targets of government agencies. The government is buying newer and more sophisticated data surveillance systems to collect information about foreign entities, [Washington post](//www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/china-harvests-masses-of-data-on-western-targets-documents-show/2021/12/31/3981ce9c-538e-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html) We reviewed bid documents and contracts for more than 300 Chinese government projects dating back to early 2020. The document revealed the purchase of $ 320,000 China's state-owned media software mining social media to create a database of foreign journalists and scholars. Officials also bought $ 216,000 [Beijing](//www.dailymail.co.uk/news/beijing/index.html) A police intelligence program for Hong Kong and Taiwan, and a…