China news roundup / Nachrichten 2024-03-01
Leaked Russian military files reveal Moscow rehearses tactical nuclear weapons response to Chinese invasion
"The cache consists of 29 secret Russian military files drawn up between 2008 and 2014
[...] The defensive plans expose deeply held suspicions of China among Moscow’s security elite even, as Putin began forging an alliance with Beijing, which as early as 2001 included a nuclear no-first-strike agreement."
--- Not too recent, but it still shows that Russia is not quite as naive as all this 'no-limit friendship' talk suggests. I said it before: China is still looking to gain territory lost by the Qing against Russia. & Russia is obviously very aware of that. I doubt that this will do anything do damage China-Russia relations, though. China is aware that Russia is aware that China is aware ... aso. (& at least at the moment, they need each other.)
Biden administration opens investigation into foreign-made smart car components, particularly from China
"The new investigation — which could lead to regulations restricting the use of certain car parts in the US — reflects growing concern within the Biden administration that countries like China could exploit navigation data or connections to car-charging stations, for example, to collect intelligence or sabotage infrastructure.
The inquiry will focus on “connected vehicles,” a broad term for virtually any modern car that uses network connections for roadside assistance, satellite communications or a range of other features."
--- Was about time.
"The Chinese government has its own concerns about the data gathered by Tesla vehicles, and some Chinese government ministries have barred the vehicles from entering their compounds"
--- Which shows that the CCP probably is using Chinese cars with similar technology to do exactly what they suspect Tesla of doing.
China making ‘concerted effort’ to dominate critical US ports equipment, Biden official says
"“The bottom line is that today’s high-tech cranes can collect data and that is why this executive order is so important,” said Seroka. “The Port of Los Angeles opened the nation’s first port Cyber Security Operations Center in 2014, and in 2023, the center stopped nearly three-quarters of a billion intrusion attempts, an average of about 63 million intrusion attempts each month,”"
--- Meh. Those are mostly not very dangerous intrusion attempts by private hackers or bots. Shouldn't be too serious. The real danger is that collected data is sent to China via backdoors or such.
Scientist fed classified information to China, says Canada intelligence report
"In one instance, Qiu told investigators a 2018 trip to China was a personal vacation. But she eventually admitted the trip was paid for by Wuhan Institute for Virology and that she met the a senior member of the organization during the trip. Investigators also found evidence of application from Qiu agreeing to work for the Wuhan Virology Institute for at least two months each year, with the aim of augmenting China’s “biosecurity platform for new and potent infectious disease research”, according to the CSIS report.
Qiu admitted she sent an Ebola sample to China’s national institute for food and drug control, which was attempting to develop an inhibitor to the virus. But she did so without a material transfer agreement or collaboration agreement.
Qiu also allowed two employees of a Chinese institution, “whose work is not aligned with Canadian interests” access to the lab."
--- How racist of the CSIS! Chinese scientists are just scientists. Screening them is absolutely unnecessary & discriminatory.
China's New AI 'Supermind' Deepens Challenge to U.S.
--- CSIS: "China’s Economy: Has THE Crisis Started?"
--- CNBC: "How China's property bubble burst"
--- CNBC: China's global auto strength: Why cost advantage is key for Chinese automakers
--- CBC News: Scientist fired from Canadian disease lab intentionally gave info to China
--- Sky News (AUS): Labor government quiet on China ‘aggressively moving’ against Australia
--- Diplomat: Is China Committing Environmental Crimes in the South China Sea?
Mögliche Spionage: US-Präsident Biden will Autos aus China bremsen
"Die amerikanische Regierung lässt offiziell prüfen, ob und inwieweit chinesische Autos auf Amerikas Straßen ein nationales Sicherheitsrisiko darstellen. Mit ihren Kameras, Sensoren und ihrer Software könnten moderne Autos für Spionage und andere üble Zwecke missbraucht werden"
--- Wurde auch Zeit. Die KPCh schränkt die Teslanutzung schon eine ganze Weile ein, weil man Spionage befürchtet. & bei der KPCh kann man davon ausgehen, daß sie diesen Verdacht hat, weil chinesische Automarken genauso eingesetzt werden.
"zu einem Zeitpunkt, an dem staatlich geförderte chinesische Autoproduzenten dabei sind, Auslandsmärkte mit technologisch ausgereiften günstigen Elektroautos zu erobern"
--- So ausgereift sind sie wohl doch nicht:
China-Elektroautos fahren im Test weit hinterher
"Dass BYD, der größte Elektroautohersteller der Welt und wichtigster Konkurrent von VW in China, den Test verliert, sei verdient, heißt es. Die Fahrwerksabstimmung sei schlecht, das Auto „schaukelt und taumelt“ durch die Kurven, auf unebenen Fahrbahnen gerate der Dolphin „in Seenot“, die Lenkung sei fahrbahngefühl- und präzisionsfrei, die Bremsen ebenfalls schlecht. Das Fernlicht sei funzelig, die Heizwirkung kaum vorhanden.
Nicht einmal in Sachen Software – angeblich eine Stärke chinesischer Autos – könne BYD überzeugen. Das Navi habe nicht einmal eine Laderoutenplanung, die Reichweitenanzeige rechne nur mit theoretischen WLTP-Kilometern, die serienmäßig aufgespielten Apps Amazon Music, Spotify und Karaoke funktionierten nicht."
--- Aber, aber, aber... Dudenhöffer & Co. erzählen uns schon seit Jahren, wie überlegen die chinesischen Autohersteller sind. Man wird doch wohl keinen Schwachsinn gelabert haben?!
