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Why am I not surprised? A Chinese national living in the United States on a visa is under surveillance by the FBI after her boyfriend, a 59 year old defense contractor and Army Reserve Lt. Col, was arrested this week for disclosing classified information including secrets regarding nuclear weapons. The 27 year old is not under arrest at this time nor will the FBI confirm that she is a spy for the Chinese government but officials did say that they were aware of her location and were continuing to investigate her role in the...
read moreChinese Army Tied Directly to Most U.S. Hackings
In 2011 the United States made acts of hacking linked directly to a nation an act of war. It was part of a 30 page strategy to deal with cyber threats but the officials stressed that not all hacks would lead to war. For an attempt to constitute an act of war it would have to threaten lives, commerce, infrastructure or worse. Oddly though most of the attacks coming out of China have targeted American companies with an emphasis on the defense industry and it can be argued successfully that that affects commerce yet for the most part the White...
read moreNorth Korea is Quickly Alienating China
North Korea has always been quite brazen compared to other rogue states but China has always stood by the stubborn little nation in defiance of Western powers and at times the world however North Korea’s recent actions are receiving less fanfare in China. For the second time in just a few months China has actively condemned North Korea’s actions. In December their condemnation, and agreement to go along with sanctions, came after a North Korean missile test and now this week after North Korea tested their third nuclear weapon. It signals...
read moreNorth Korea Reaches New Levels of Stupidity
North Korea can barely feed a quarter of its people yet its pudgy leader is continuing the tradition of unimaginable military spending in order to appear bigger than they are. North Korea announced that it is planning another nuclear test as well as more long range missile attempts. The announcement comes fresh on the heels of a UN resolution that was passed on Tuesday that was in response to North Korea’s last missile attempt in December, not their discovery of a unicorn layer, and the resolution tightened the sanctions on the nation that...
read more5 Things China may do in 2013
There’s a new man coming to power in China and with the upcoming change in leadership there will undoubtedly be changes in how China deals with both friend and foe. From a stuttering economy to increasingly hostile disputes over islands 2013 is going to be quite the test for Xi Jinping and for one of the world’s most powerful countries. With so many things to keep an eye on I’ve compiled the following list of 5 things China may do in 2013. Deploy more warships to disputed waters – In part this is already underway with the...
read moreChina’s “Scientific Experiments” Only Aircraft Carrier gets a Lot less Scientific
China’s only aircraft carrier, an old Soviet re-launch, doesn’t compare to America’s super carriers in the least but it is enough to make China’s carrier-less neighbors a little worried and China’s latest “scientific” test won’t ease that worry. China’s hilarious lie about their only aircraft carrier being for alleged scientific purposes won’t be able to hold much water if it ever did now that they’ve landed a fighter jet onto its deck. The Chinese are making a battle group and...
read moreChina Angers Asia with New Passports
If anyone thought that the regime change in China was going to douse water on the growing fire in the South and East China Seas then they were dead wrong. China has gotten a little more brazen with its claim that it owns nearly all of the South China Sea and the islands that lie within it by issuing some new passports that essentially force countries who stamp them to acknowledge China’s claim to the Sea and islands. The move isn’t as bold as sending armed vessels to the area around the disputed islands but it is a sign that as...
read moreEconomic Woes, Corruption and Civil Unrest Spook China’s Ruling Elite at 18th National Congress
A rare look inside China’s power transition shows a leadership torn between liberalizing or tightening control In a speech that marked the opening of the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th National Congress on November 8, outgoing President Hu Jintao sets the stage for a power transfer that will define the future of China’s political direction by delivering a report which hails the successes of his “Golden decade” of leadership and highlights the “fatal” cost of failing to stamp out government...
read moreU.S. Report on Chinese Telecoms Giants Huawei, ZTE Security Threat “Groundless” says China media
The preliminary findings of an 11 month investigation by the House Intelligence Committee have recommended that two major Chinese telecommunications corporations be barred from operating in the U.S in light of potential state influence from China. In recognition of the potentially crippling effect a cyber attack can have on the U.S, the report alleges that Huawei and ZTE “cannot be trusted to be free of foreign state influence and thus pose a security threat to the United States and to our systems.” As it stands, the majority of...
read moreObama Forbids Chinese Purchase of “Wind Farm” Near Naval Base
China must have thought that they were being sneakier than they actually were when they decided they wanted to own and operate a wind farm that is positioned right next to a naval base that does testing on classified unmanned vehicles. Naval Weapons Systems Training Facility in Boardman, Oregon is a fairly secret facility that is rumored to have multiple drones on site as well as other aircraft that specialize in electronic warfare. It might have prompted a visit from the DoD if it were an American company wanting to put up huge wind turbines...
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