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The PLA Is Posting Its Own Movements to DouYin. We Read Them.

A three-step workflow for turning Douyin PLA footage into searchable intelligence — even if you don’t read or speak Chinese.

December 30, 2025 |

December was a strong month on China OSINT — for you, the reader, and for us researching and writing these investigations. Over the month we dropped deep dives on iFlytek's mass-surveillance source infrastructure, CCP village surveillance systems, dark web actor attribution, and PLA unit-number decoding — and we're not done yet.

Below, we walk the full three-step workflow — searching, filtering, pulling and transcribing Douyin PLA footage into searchable intelligence, even with no Chinese.

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