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The speech that’s rattling China-watchers
December 10, 2020
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
December 7, 2020
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?
November 30, 2020
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
November 23, 2020
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 […]
Hong Kong: An Insider’s View
November 20, 2020
From my one-time protege at Business Week, a most authoritative view of what is happening inside Hong Kong. The Chinese strategy is clearly to use business and economic incentives to overwhelm any political opposition or resistance.
ChinaFile Offers Smashing New Insights on How China Surveils Its Own People
November 2, 2020
My key question is, if this is the pattern they have established at home, are they using the same techniques and methodologies internationally? The Communist Party’s doctrine seems to have evolved to the point that not only is the party completely dominant inside China, but it also has the right to assert its supremacy globally. […]
