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U.S. Firm Alleges Huawei Forced It to Build a Backdoor Data Access System
August 14, 2021
It’s been widely assumed that once China’s Huawei builds a nation’s wireless telecommunications sytem and creates a “smart city” with hundreds of cameras monitoring many types of activity, the Chinese company has access to all that data. Now comes this suit by an American company regarding a smart city project in Pakistan. The story is […]
Chinese hackers can take over a nation’s entire telecoms system–by exploiting Microsoft’s Exchange servers
August 4, 2021
This article from Bloomberg is so good but is behind a reg wall, so I share it in full here: Chinese Hackers Compromised Telecom Firms, Researchers Say By Ryan Gallagher August 3, 2021, 12:01 AM EDT Updated on August 4, 2021, 6:57 AM EDT Chinese state-backed hacking groups compromised at least five global telecommunications companies and stole […]
Facebook Making $5 Billion For Sharing Chinese Propaganda
July 26, 2021
This story from the private The Wire newsletter deserves broad circulation: Facebook’s Super Spreaders What message is Beijing trying to send? BY KATRINA NORTHROP — JULY 25, 2021 Illustration by Taylor Callery Last Friday afternoon, just as President Joe Biden was boarding Marine One for a weekend at Camp David, a reporter yelled out a question: “On Covid […]
The world has not yet witnessed China’s full cyber power
July 23, 2021
The world has not yet witnessed China’s full cyber power Analysts who are paying attention realize that China has reached near-parity or absolute advantage in some areas of communications and computing with the United States. They were first, for example, to develop 5G wireless telecommunications technology and the United States still does not have it. […]
This Wall Street Journal video shows how TikTok targets users–it’s all based on a secret algorithm controlled from China
July 22, 2021
My OPC Book Night with CNN’s John Avlon
July 20, 2021
William J. Holstein Examines The Rise Of China And A Teetering News Industry by Chad Bouchard In his new book, OPC Past President William J. Holstein weaves his own personal experience as China correspondent in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with four decades of insight as a close observer of the country’s trajectory, commenting […]
