I would suggest that the set of means available to nation-states to unilaterally surveil another nation state is far more expansive than the list you have. For example, the good-old-fashioned “Paying two hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars in a Grand Cayman banking account to a Chinese bureaucrat”* appears nowhere in your list.
*If you get that this is a reference to the movie Spy Game, you are cool. If you don’t, go watch Spy Game. It has a worldview on power that is extremely relevant to rationalists.
I would suggest that the set of means available to nation-states to unilaterally surveil another nation state is far more expansive than the list you have. For example, the good-old-fashioned “Paying two hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars in a Grand Cayman banking account to a Chinese bureaucrat”* appears nowhere in your list.
*If you get that this is a reference to the movie Spy Game, you are cool. If you don’t, go watch Spy Game. It has a worldview on power that is extremely relevant to rationalists.