MSM is saying this:
New Zealand has broken with its “Five Eyes” intelligence partners as it pursues a closer alliance with China
New Zealand’s foreign minister said she would not allow the intelligence alliance to dictate the country’s dealings with China, putting it at odds with the other members of the ‘Five Eyes’ alliance: the UK, US, Canada and Australia.
But SkyNews Australia is reporting this as "Woke culture now becoming a national security risk" :
New Zealand is selling out Australia – and the west – to keep sweet with the genocidal Chinese dictatorship
EDIT: This just happened and is definitely connected:
Australia severs regional ‘Belt & Road’ deals with China, FM Payne says deals with Beijing inconsistent with Australia’s foreign policy
https://greatawakening.win/p/12iNC9dIt1/australia-severs-regional-belt--/c/
I'm familiar with ECHELON. It is still an active program, but other programs like PRISM have grown larger than anything ECHELON could collect. Watch the show Person of Interest. The "Machine" in the show, is basically HAMMER with NSA collection and artificial intelligence. Almost every capability in the show exists today.
It’s all works in tandem. Echelon was the foundation. Technological progression builds on itself. Now we have next gen D Wave quantum computers paving the way towards processing real-time analytics. Quantum supremacy was always the key needed to run the whole system.
Absolutely. Quantum changes everything, both on the encrypt and decrypt sides. Unbreakable codes crumble. Quantum encryption becomes unbreakable.