The Chinese understood first that technology has made human spying both difficult and anachronistic. The U.S. spent it intelligence dollars on counterterrorism (fighting jihadists around the world). China invested in technology and economic espionage. This from an insightful essay at Strategy Page, a military affairs web site. China had the money, the tech and the...
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U.S. Considers a Human Rights Policy in Xinjang
Should the Trump administration sanction Hikvision, a Chinese facial recognition firm deeply involved in the suppression of the Uighur people in Xinjang province? “Taking this step would be a tangible signal to both U.S. and foreign companies that the U.S. government is looking carefully at what is happening in Xinjiang and is willing to take...
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How China Could Retaliate For Huawei Ban
As the Trump administration seeks to banish the Chinese telecom Huawei from U.S. markets, China has a potent possible weapons to strike back: control of the supply of rare-earth minerals, crucial to the manufacture of oil refining, ear buds, wind turbines, and electric cars. According to Ryan Castilloux, a strategic metals consultant quoted in Foreign...
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The Power Politics Behind the Blacklisting of Huawei
The rise of surveillance capitalism in the 21st century has been very good for the world’s intelligence agencies, and vice versa. Maybe too good. Google has become an indispensable partner of the National Security Agency. The CIA has “relied exclusively” on Amazon for a $600 million cloud computing system. Israel’s intelligence services have birthed a...
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As China Absorbs Xinjiang, Mosques Are Disappearing |
The scope of Chinese social engineering in the western province of Xinjiang is amazing and appalling. The province, home to the non-Chinese Uighur people, most of the Muslim, is now subject to surveillance and “re-education”on a scale not seen anywhere else in the world. Now Bellingcat, the online investigative site, says the Chinese government is...