This article in the Washington Post quotes federal prosecutors as alleging that a China-based executive of Zoom is the key liaison to the Chinese government and has been active in implementing the government’s wishes to censor Zoom calls and shut down accounts. There have been suspicions about this but this is the first time there […]…
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The speech that’s rattling China-watchers
A leading Chinese professor gave a speech in China on live television in which he bragged about being able to fool foreigners and how China’s $3 trillion in foreign exchange reserves could be used to achieve power. And he also hinted darkly that China has friends at the top of the American financial establishment who […]…
Nikkei article completely supports our National Interest piece on Chinese penetration of U.S. computer systems
This article in Japan’s Nikkei completely supports the piece that Mike McLaughlin and I published a week ago in the National Interest. The Chinese government is using tax software to penetrate the computing systems of foreign companies operating in China, giving them the ability to penetrate the corporate global networks…
Is China Seeking a Permanent, Secretive Presence in America’s Computers?
The answer appears to be “yes.” See my article co-authored with Michael McLaughlin, senior counterintelligence adviser to the Pentagon’s CyberCommand, here…
American Tech Companies Face China-related Issues
This piece in the New York Times explains how Intel and Nvidia sell semiconductors to a middleman in China who then sells them to authorities running the largest surveillance operation in the world against the Uighur minority population. Some even call it genocide. The fact that President Xi Jinping has declared a “military-civil fusion” means […]…