That's not true though? Stop eating up American propaganda.
Are we... pretending the Chinese and U.S. government are the same when it comes to how gathered intelligence is applied?
China applies gathered intelligence to target dissident groups within China.
The US does that too (targets dissidents within the US).
But
also uses intelligence to destabilise foreign sovereign powers, interfere with foreign elections, kidnap foreign citizens via extraordinary rendition, assassinate foreign citizens, issue drone strikes on both military and civilian targets, leaves government mandated security holes in exported technology to allow access to its security forces, and has in recent memory
fabricated intelligence to justify the invasion of a foreign sovereignty in direct violation of UN wishes. It also spends vastly more on its military than anyone else on the planet.
I mean... if China is engaging in the same level of fuckery at the geopolitical scale that the US is, they must be super fucking good at it, because they haven't been caught doing that. Unlike the US has. On multiple occasions.