Apple and the consequences of partnering with the Chinese regime
Images of people escaping from a factory facility in China at the end of October swept the world. Workers jumping over fences and fleeing cross-country or walking along roadsides to escape the harsh working conditions and quarantine measures put one of the most emblematic companies of these times, Apple, in ...
US blocks more than 1,000 shipments of Chinese solar panels suspected of using slave labor
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act issued in the United States as a measure to discourage slave labor against ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China, began to take effect on June 21. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized over 1,000 shipments of solar energy equipment up to October 25. This was ...
China holds World Internet Conference while tightening cyberspace censorship
Chinese leader Xi Jinping congratulated the World Internet Conference (WIC) through an official statement on November 9. The conference was held at the Wuzhen Exhibition Center, which has hosted the event since 2014. Several U.S. tech executives virtually attended the event, including the CEOs of IBM, Intel, and Cisco. Invited guests, ...
Chinese drones used for national holiday in Taiwan: investigation demanded
In the month of October, Taiwan celebrated its National Day with more than 500 drones flying over the accompanying the celebration. But recently a report revealed that these drones were manufactured in China. the official Lu Ming-che, exposed in Taiwan's legislature the origin of the drones and demanded an investigation ...
Missing Chinese journalist: Is her body on display at the macabre Body Worlds exhibition?
This week, a story several years old and considered by many to be an "urban legend" resurfaced with a vengeance after a Korean TV show exposed the subject. The plot, which features a powerful CCP member, his influential wife, and a beautiful Chinese TV presenter, is about love, betrayal, mystery, ...
Caution with BeiDou: Chinese ‘GPS’ may be spying on us
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has pushed to develop its own Satellite Navigation System, BeiDou, to break its dependence on the already-known American GPS and European GALILEO. On November 4, China's State Council Office released the white paper "BeiDou in the New Era," which talks about its latest update while trying ...
How Huawei director was released in exchange for two Canadian citizens
On October 27, a report by The Wall Street Journal broke the details of the arrest and release of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's CFO, and the prisoner swap in 2021 that kept tensions high between the United States, Canada, and the Chinese regime through three years of negotiations. Meng is the daughter ...
US continues buying banned Chinese technology that threatens national security
Following actions taken in 2019, by former President Trump, on banning the government's use of Chinese technologies, which breach national security, a new report finds that the measure is not enforced. On October 26, Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology reported that at least 1,681 state and local entities ...
TikTok: A social network used as an intelligence tool to monitor Americans’ whereabouts
According to a shocking report in Forbes magazine, TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has reportedly been using the app to monitor specific individuals' physical locations in the United States. The project reports to ByteDance's Internal Audit and Risk Control department, which is tasked with investigating possible misconduct by current and former employees ...
Chinese hypersonic missiles, thanks to US taxpayers’ money
Days ago, an extensive investigation by the Washington Post revealed how high-tech software products developed in the U.S. are falling into the hands of military research groups linked to China's hypersonic and missile programs. In addition to the industrial espionage tactics frequently used by the Chinese regime to acquire cutting-edge technology, ...
App COVID-19, how the CCP uses it to persecute dissidents
The cell phone applications that the governments of different countries have used to monitor and control the COVID-19 pandemic have put several organizations and human rights experts on the alert since their implementation. The data, location, and possible registration of individuals and group activities of people would remain in the ...
Can a Chinese magnet slow down the world’s most advanced military aircraft?
Early in September, the Pentagon suspended the delivery of F-35 fighter jets following the discovery that a part had been manufactured with raw material from China. Lockheed Martin, which manufactures the aircraft, revealed that a magnet used in the turbo machinery pumps, which are built by Honeywell, was made from a ...
New US restrictions put China’s technology future in jeopardy
The U.S. move to protect the semiconductor industry continues apace. This Tuesday, the Commerce Department ordered a ban on selling high-tech equipment to large Chinese semiconductor companies such as Yangtze River Storage, Changxin Storage, SMIC, and others. In addition, foreign residents in the United States will not be allowed to ...
TikTok records your behavior even when you are not using the app: Report reveals
A new report published following an investigation by Consumer Reports revealed that the Chinese social network TikTok uses specific mechanisms that allow it to track the behavior of its users on the web, their consumption, and interests even when the person is not using the application. According to the investigation, the ...
British intelligence reveals Chinese regime plans
On October 11, the director of Government Communications Headquarters in Great Britain, Jeremy Fleming, made strong statements against the Chinese regime during a speech at the Royal United Institute in London. Fleming accused China of attempting to "rewrite the rules of international security" by using both its economic and technological clout ...
Elon Musk takes on former Chinese official on Twitter, defends free speech
A few days ago, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla, posted a poll on Twitter about the war between Russia and Ukraine. In the poll, Musk proposed ways to resolve the conflict. The tweet went viral and garnered over 2,400,ooo votes. For Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of the state-run ...
