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We have seen some very disturbing behavior from Biden when it comes to China.
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Gordon Chang, senior fellow, Gatestone Institute, speaking to Fox News
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He told CBS News; US companies began flocking to China in the early 1980s after the country opened to the West under then-leader Deng Xiaoping. And now, US banks operate here.
Walmart has more than 300 stores across the country. Boeing’s here. So is Tesla, Pfizer, Chevron, Intel. But while some businesses are thriving, many of the foreign companies are worried about the business climate under President Xi Jinping. If you track China from the death
of Mao to the opening of China to the world, we’ve seen a closing of sorts. We’ve seen a centralization of power of the Party. We’ve seen increased repression of the people of China here. That’s a very significant trend just over the last decade. The government here in China wants the economy to grow, but they also have a national security mindset. They want to control data. Burns says he’s wary of the future as the fundamental rivalry and mistrust between the US and China is shaking the confidence of the business world and has pushed its relationship to its lowest point in half a century.
“This is the most important, most competitive, and most dangerous relationship that the United States has in the world right now and will have, I think, for the next decade or so,” he said. Speaking to Fox News, Gordon Chang,
senior fellow, Gatestone Institute, an American conservative think tank in New York, said the ominous threat China poses to US national security is creating tensions anong the two countries which is ‘going to get out of control’.
“We have seen some very distrubing
behaviour from Biden when it comes to China. The American people need to start asking questions and need to start demanding that their President talk to China about this (these allegations)... “We know that China is using its
supply of critical infrastructure to the US to monitor and probably for acts of sabotage because I’m sure that on the first day of a war those cranes would not operate because of those motives. This is on us though because we know that the Chinese have been doing this for decades. It’s surveillance cameras, electrical grid equipment, and we don’t do anything to protect ourselves. We need the American people to be outraged at both Democratic and Republican political parties for failing to deal with a known threat.” Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) reacted to the news that its cranes pose a cybersecurity threat, notedly ZPMC’s installation of Swiss engineering group ABB’s equipment onto US-bound ship-to-shore cranes by telling Reuters: “ZPMC takes the US concerns seriously and believes that these reports can easily mislead the public without sufficient factual review. The cranes provided by ZPMC do not pose a cybersecurity risk to any ports.” ABB said it sold its control and electrification equipment to many crane manufacturers, including Chinese companies, which in turn sold cranes directly to US ports. ABB says it is taking the matter seriously and wants to provide an appropriate response to the letter from
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the House Committee on Homeland Security and a select committee examining economic competition between the US and China. “ABB’s crane software technology is supplier-independent and installed on cranes manufactured by major crane builders including Chinese companies,” it said. “These cranes are bought by US ports from Chinese and other companies, not from ABB.” PACECO Corp., a US based subsidiary
of Mitsui E&S Co. (Japan), says it is now planning to onshore US manufacturing capacity for its crane production in California and is partnering with Brookfield as an investment partner. This is the first time since 1989 that the United States has had this capacity, and it is expected to contribute to securing the safety of US port infrastructure. In a statement PACECO said it will assemble, rather than fabricate container cranes in the US, focusing on RTGs initially, although no details of where the crane sections will be fabricated have been revealed. The US and Japan are moving closer
together as the US looks to move quickly to remove China as a supplier of infrastructure and other systems it deems as critical infrastructure and/or a cyber security risk. The news come after President Biden
welcomed Prime Minister Kishida of Japan for an official visit to celebrate historic ties between the two countries. “Our defense and security ties form
the core of our Alliance and are the cornerstone of regional peace and security. Recognizing that the Alliance has reached new heights, we plan to further bolster our defense and security cooperation to allow for greater coordination and integration,” The White House said in a statement. The two countries pledge to continue to deepen their cooperation on information and cyber security to ensure the Alliance stays ahead of growing threats and builds resilience in the information and communication technology (ICT) domain. They plan to also enhance their cooperation on the protection of critical infrastructure. The United States and Japan plan to establish a working group of relevant experts to develop an action plan on achieving mutual recognition on cybersecurity labelling schemes for Internet of Things.
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