Pompeo says Chinese threat ‘inside the gates’ amid rising fears about risk to US data, economic security
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the threat from the Chinese Communist Party is “inside the gates” of the United States, as he backed strong language from FBI Director Christopher Wray about the Beijing threat and warned of the risks to privacy from Chinese control of social media apps such as TikTok. “It’s inside the gates, […]
China Pursues Tech ‘Self-Reliance,’ Fueling Global Unease
China’s ruling Communist Party is pressing entrepreneurs to make the country a “technology superpower” that doesn’t need the United States or other foreign suppliers. To help make China a self-reliant “technology superpower,” the ruling Communist Party is pushing the world’s biggest e-commerce company to take on the tricky, expensive business of designing its own processor […]
MIT: The US crackdown on Chinese economic espionage is a mess. We have the data to show it.
A snapshot of the CCP’s China Initiative to steal US Intellectual Property – an estimated 2% of actual theft. The IP is used to take over companies and industries and weaken the US and our Western allies. MIT had questions about the DOJ’s pursuit of the China Initiative, so they began digging. Here is what […]
US Intensifies Pressure on Allies to Avoid Huawei, ZTE
The Trump administration is leading a broadside against Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE. But concerns that Chinese networking gear could be used as backdoors for facilitating state-sponsored surveillance or disrupting critical infrastructure are not limited to America. Multiple countries have banned Chinese equipment from their 5G rollouts or government networks, and more countries are […]
The West’s China blind spot
The West has a blind spot when it comes to China’s technological advances. What’s happening: Again and again, the West has shown that it misunderstands China’s true competence in the technologies of the future — artificial intelligence, quantum science, robotics, and more. Alternatively under- and over-estimating China’s progress, the U.S. and Europe are left simply unmoored […]
Google Distributes Surveillance Technology Developed by Chinese Company
Commentary This article is part of a series on corporate surveillance, highlighting civil liberty, privacy, cybersecurity, safety, and tech-product user exploitation threats associated with connected products that are supported by the Android (Google) OS, Apple iOS, and Microsoft Windows OS. In part 1 of this article, Business Users of Smartphones May be Breaking the Law, I […]
Ex-CIA director: It’s a tech war, not a trade war
Michael Morell, former acting director of the CIA, has characterized the ongoing China-U.S. trade war as a “an escalating technological cold war…not centered on tariffs and trade…[but] involves both China’s use of technology to steal information and the theft of technology itself.” In the area of telecommunications, Morell warns that “first…there will be more mobile […]
Frontline Series: The Facebook Dilemma
Since Facebook’s inception and meteoric rise as a social community and sharing platform, the promise was to connect and unite us as a global community. But has the Social Media giant done more divide us? Frontline presents a 2-part investigative report to tell us what they found: “The promise of Facebook was to create a […]