As trade talks between Washington and Beijing intensified earlier this year, suspected Chinese hackers broke into an industry group for U.S. manufacturers that has helped shape President Donald Trump’s trade policies, according to two people familiar with the matter. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) was hacked over the summer and hired a cybersecurity firm, […]
‘China is building database on vulnerabilities of hundreds of millions of Americans’…
China is creating databases on the behavior, preferences, and vulnerabilities of hundreds of millions of Americans to use for intelligence purposes. Whether by hacking the US government or infiltrating American tech companies to harvest their data, China is taking all that it steals to learn everything it can about the behavior of Americans. On Tuesday […]
Charges: Chinese Surveillance Goods Illegally Sold to U.S….
A Long Island firm sold tens of millions of dollars in Chinese-made surveillance and other sensitive security equipment to customers, including the U.S. military to use on aircraft carriers, by falsely claiming the goods were manufactured in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The fraud that prosecutors allege by Aventura Technologies Inc. raised “a grave concern” […]
The Threat(s) of Chinese Nationalism.
The Great Firewall is probably the best-known feature of the complex censorship system in China. It’s how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censors what anyone in China can see on the internet. Everything from popular western websites like Wikipedia and YouTube, information about the Tiananmen Square Incident and the Dalai Lama, and most foreign films […]
American Nationalism or Chinese Imperialism. You Can Only Pick One. by Will Chamberlain…
Recently, Americans received a wake-up call about the ascendant soft power of China. After Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, was chastised by the Chinese government for tweeting out support for Hong Kong, LeBron James, the world’s most famous basketball player, decided to weigh in on behalf of China. James was ratioed […]
U.S. Opens National Security Investigation Into Chinese-Owned TikTok…
A national security review of Chinese-owned TikTok’s $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly has been opened by the U.S. government, three unidentified sources told Reuters. U.S. lawmakers have only recently called for a national security probe into the popular Chinese video-sharing app, though the acquisition by TikTok—which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance […]
Grassley Investigating Hunter Biden’s China Business Dealings…
The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that Senator Chuck Grassley “received a classified briefing about [Hunter Biden’s] foreign investment deal on Friday.” Hunter was able to land a major investment deal that was backed by the Chinese government after he and his father, Vice President Biden, made an official visit to China by flying there […]
China Says It’s Reached a Consensus in Principle with the U.S. During This Week’s Trade Talks…
China said Friday that it has reached a consensus with the U.S. in principle after a phone call among high-level trade negotiators this week. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said Vice Premier Liu He had a phone call with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Friday. It said the two […]
China’s IP Theft Remains a Thorny Issue in Trade Talks…
Whether the United States and China will sign the first part of a trade deal at the APEC meetings in Chile isn’t yet certain, and one obstacle in the ongoing talks is China’s stance on intellectual property. This is one of the most problematic issues in the trade talks, as Beijing wouldn’t “move the needle” […]
Krugman Admits He and Mainstream Economists Got Globalization Wrong…Ya Think?…
Paul Krugman, Nobel-prize winning economist and avowed champion of free trade, admits he and his colleagues got a few things seriously wrong about globalization, in particular around its downside impact on local labor markets. “We missed a crucial part of the story,” Krugman wrote in a Bloomberg article in October, referring to members of the […]
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