DHS Warns Against IT Services, Equipment From Chinese Telecom Firms
The agency’s report names Chinese telecoms Huawei and ZTE specifically as threats to U.S. companies, service providers, and network operators. By Gina Narcisi December 23, 2020, 12:25 PM EST
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning American companies and government agencies against using data services and equipment from IT companies based in or linked to China.
The fifteen-page Data Security Business Advisory published Tuesday calls out embattled Chinese telecoms Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp. specifically as threats to U.S. companies, service providers, and network operators.
“Practices that give the PRC [People’s Republic of China] government unauthorized access to sensitive data – both personal and proprietary – puts the U.S. economy and businesses at direct risk for exploitation. We urge businesses to exercise caution before enteri
Communist China company bought 130K acres in Texas near US military facilities
It was largely ignored by the media that prefers to emphasize the villainy of Russia.
Also ignored, for the most part, except for Fox News and a few other lesser outlets: China purchased over 100,000 acres of land in West Texas. They say it’s for economic reasons. They built a wind farm, but it is near U.S. military facilities like Fort Hood, Fort Bliss, and Lackland Air Force Base. Lackland and nearby Laughlin AFB.
Beginning in 2015, GH America Investment Group purchased over 130,000 acres of property in Val Verde County. GH America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Xinjiang-based Guanghui Industry Investment Group. Xinjiang is notorious for its so-called “re-education” camps, where China detains Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities against their will and violates their human rights, Fox News reports.
The US government has urged domestic businesses not to invest in Chinese IT kit or data services over fears companies there will be coerced by the Communist Party into enabling cyber-espionage.
The business advisory from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) clarified what many have known for some time: that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is on a mission to become self-sufficient in technology and a global tech superpower over the coming decades.
A key part of this strategy is to steal intellectual property from foreign firms and governments. The same tactic is used to enhance the PRC’s military capabilities, the advisory noted.
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The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a guide to the terrifying risks that businesses will expose themselves to if they use tech created in the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) or engage in any business activity with the Middle Kingdom.
The fifteen-page “Data Security Business Advisory” [PDF] opens by warning “Businesses expose themselves and their customers to heightened risk when they share sensitive data with firms located in the PRC, or use equipment and software developed by firms with an ownership nexus in the PRC.”
An EU-China investment deal is near but is it ‘worth having?’
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After seven years of negotiation, the European Union (EU) and China have reportedly reached an agreement in principle on the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) and they’ve pledged to finalize it by the end of the year. If signed, the CAI represents another major achievement for China in carving out an economic space for itself in the face of acrimonious contention with the United States, following last month’s signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) with other Asian nations.
For the EU, the reported deal seems to meet some of its demands for more market access in China. However, the “comprehensive” investment deal appears to be upstaging the substantive consultation in the soon-to-be-revived US-EU partnership, supposedly to coordinate policies in dealing with China’s challenges something both sides of the Atlantic have signaled in recent weeks.