The NY Times has this top-notch piece today explaining how Chinese government-related entities may help Myanmar’s military rulers stiffle all dissent by helping to build Myanmar’s own version of China’s Great Firewall. It turns out that Huawei and ZTE built much of Myanmar’s telecommunications network. And surveillance cameras made by Huawei have gone up in […]…
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Biden Starts Showing Strong Leadership on China
This action of bringing together a bipartisan consensus to examine America’s supply chains of semiconductors, rare earths and other critical components does not seem to explicitly mention China. But it’s clear that this is an effort to reduce U.S. vulnerabilities to an increasingly assertive Chinese Communist Party and to make sure that a crucial industry–semiconductors–does […]…
BusinessWeek Finds Persistent Pattern of Chinese Hacking Through SuperMicro
This article is hidden behind a pay wall but it is so important that I will provide a summary. Entitled “The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier,” the same two journalists who wrote “The Big Hack” in 2018, Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley, describe how what they earlier discovered was just a […]…
China’s Surveillance of The World
I missed this report from Brookings last year. China pal Jocelyn Ford alerted me to it. You can see it here. But this map tells the story:…
Department of Homeland Security Picks Up on Article in National Interest to Issue Warning About Chinese IT penetration
Apparently in reaction to the article that Mike McLaughlin and I wrote for the National Interest, seen here, The Hill is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning about precisely what we wrote about–the Chinese government is requiring foreign companies that operate in China to make their systems completely open to […]…
