There’s no manners in spying anywhere in the world. Just mutual respect.
[SIZE=7]Xi Jinping’s global dreams hit a wall amid growing backlash against China[/SIZE]
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[FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=rgb(38, 38, 38)][COLOR=rgb(115, 115, 115)][SIZE=14px]Analysis by [COLOR=rgb(38, 38, 38)]Ben Westcott, CNN[/SIZE]
[COLOR=rgb(115, 115, 115)][SIZE=14px]Updated at 12:03 AM ET, Sat February 16, 2019[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[COLOR=rgb(38, 38, 38)]Hong Kong (CNN) — With the shock election of anti-globalist Donald Trump to the US presidency still fresh in their minds, international leaders watched with anticipation as Chinese President Xi Jinping stepped up to the podium at Davos in January 2017.
Xi’s speech in favor of globalization and free trade was met with praise by governments and businesses across the world.
“This is a very important speech at an important moment,” [COLOR=rgb(38, 38, 38)]World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab said afterward.
Two years later, that international optimism has soured and Beijing faces an increasingly chilly reaction in parts of the world.[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=rgb(38, 38, 38)][SIZE=7]Xi Jinping’s global dreams hit a wall amid growing backlash against China[/SIZE]
Analysis by Ben Westcott, CNN
Updated at 12:03 AM ET, Sat February 16, 2019[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=rgb(38, 38, 38)]Hong Kong (CNN) — With the shock election of anti-globalist Donald Trump to the US presidency still fresh in their minds, international leaders watched with anticipation as Chinese President Xi Jinping stepped up to the podium at Davos in January 2017.
Xi’s speech in favor of globalization and free trade was met with praise by governments and businesses across the world.
“This is a very important speech at an important moment,” World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab said afterward.
Two years later, that international optimism has soured and Beijing faces an increasingly chilly reaction in parts of the world.[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=rgb(38, 38, 38)]In the past two months alone, Turkey has denounced Beijing’s mass detention centers in Xinjiang, the United Kingdom has accused the Chinese government of widespread hacking and the US has ramped up its campaign to limit Chinese influence worldwide.
At the same time, multiple countries have threatened to cut relations with private Chinese technology giant Huawei over concerns its 5G network will provide Beijing with a backdoor to a global spy network.
Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute, said the backlash was the result of an unexpectedly aggressive foreign policy led by Xi. But he warned Beijing’s stance was unlikely to change.
“Xi Jinping has changed the politics in China. He cannot afford to, or would prefer not to show, any signs of weakness,” he said.
[SIZE=5]China threat ‘panic’ in the US[/SIZE]
As China’s economic and military might have grown in the past decade, the US has generally tried to maintain a policy of cordial engagement with Beijing.
But a fierce speech by US Vice President Mike Pence in October signaled the beginning of a shift in Washington, as he bluntly accused Beijing of technology theft, “predatory” economics and military aggression.[/FONT]
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The speech represented exasperation over Beijing’s controversial island-building program in the South China Sea and China’s demands for American companies to hand over their technology
Washington also believes the Chinese government’s programs issuing of billion-dollar loans to developing nations are being used as economic blackmail for political gain when repayments can’t be made.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has repeatedly called such claims “ridiculous and absurd.”
“Unlike the United States, China has absolutely no interest in controlling other nations’ politics. The global community is very clear about that,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Wednesday.
But in the months following Pence’s speech, multiple US indictments have been unsealed against Chinese actors accusing them of espionage.
High-ranking US security officials have lined up to appear before US Congress and at prominent events, warning of the threat China poses not only to their country, but to the world.
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“Through fear and coercion Beijing is working to expand its ideology in order to bend, break and replace the existing rules-based international order,” Adm. Philip Davidson, the commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, said in Washington Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has engaged in a raging trade war with Beijing, slamming billions of dollars of tariffs on Chinese goods. A deadline for a deal is fast approaching on March 1.
Susan Shirk, chair of the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego, said a bipartisan consensus had hardened in Washington against Beijing over the past year.
“There’s a panic about the China threat,” she said. “There’s a kind of rushing to erect walls, in a way that I see as an overreaction.”
[SIZE=5]The US vs Huawei[/SIZE]
Since the beginning of this year, Western concerns about China’s growing influence – and its intentions – have increasingly centered around one company: Huawei.
The Chinese technology juggernaut is a symbol of China’s economic rise, growing over just 30 years to become one of the world’s leading 5G network providers, in the process signing major contracts in countries on every continent.
Increasingly, the US has been pressuring allies to avoid using Huawei technology, citing the company’s potential links to Beijing’s security services.
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During his Europe trip on Monday, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo gave countries a thinly veiled ultimatum: it’s the US or Huawei.
“If that (Huawei) equipment is co-located in places where we have important American systems it makes it more difficult for us to partner alongside them,” he said.
Since the beginning of this year, Germany,Poland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and the United Kingdom have all voiced concerns about Huawei. In November, New Zealand banned Huawei from being used by a major telecommunications company, while British telecommunications giant Vodafone last month suspended its use of Huawei technology in Europe.
Huawei has rushed to reassure customers that their data would not be handed over to the Chinese government. In a rare interview in January, founder Ren Zhengfai said the company would “never harm” its customers.
But US allies believe concerns over Chinese digital spying are well-founded.
Last December, Jeremy Hunt, the British foreign secretary, claimed the Chinese Ministry of State Security had worked with a group known as APT 10 to target intellectual property and sensitive commercial data in Europe, Asia and the US.[/FONT]
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“This campaign is one of the most significant and widespread cyber intrusions against the UK and allies uncovered to date,” Hunt said.
China’s furious response to the arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, in Canada last December has not helped quiet fears over the company’s ties to Beijing. Meng was arrested for possible extradition to the US on charges of violating Iran sanctions.
Since then, multiple Canadians in China have been detained – and one citizen was rapidly retried on drug charges then sentenced to death.
“What they have utterly failed to see is that by their very strong, overt response … they are confirming for the first time that Huawei is not a normal company, that Huawei enjoys a special place in the eyes of the Chinese government,” Tsang said.
“And that provides justification for Western governments to revise how they deal with their approach to Huawei.”
[SIZE=5]Xinjiang outrage grows[/SIZE]
China’s human rights record has also come under fire in recent months, as major regional and trading partners with large Muslim populations grew uncomfortable with Beijing’s Xinjiang policies.
They join an increasingly loud chorus of countries, including the US and Australia, calling for the closure of massive “re-education” camps in the western region of Xinjiang, believed to be holding 2 million Muslim-majority Uyghurs.
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China claims the camps are “vocational education centers” and an important part of its deradicalization strategy, but former detainees claim to have been tortured and report having seen people die there.
It was the fierce denunciation by the Turkish Foreign Ministry of Beijing’s Xinjiang policies on February 9 which signaled a new shift against the Chinese government.
“We call on the international community and the Secretary General of the United Nations to take effective measures in order to bring to an end this human tragedy in Xinjiang,” the Turkish statement said
While Turkey made the boldest denunciation of China so far, other Muslim majority countries have been steadily losing patience.
Despite close trading ties with Beijing, and connection to Xi’s Belt and Road initiative, the Indonesian government said it had summoned China’s ambassador to demand an explanation in December.
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In Malaysia, government lawmaker Charles Santiago on Thursday called for an international fact-finding mission to Xinjiang to investigate the treatment of Uyghurs. “I am not prepared to believe what the Chinese governments says,” he said.
Opposition to China has been growing on multiple fronts in Malaysia, where major Beijing-backed construction projects have been accused of saddling the country with excessive debt.
“At the larger level, we see Chinese involvement in Southeast Asia in a predatory way,” Santiago said. “Clearly, there is a price to be paid – especially when dealing with China.”
[SIZE=5]Disquiet grows within China[/SIZE]
As concerns have been raised around the world about China’s conduct, Beijing has repeatedly responded with indignation and fierce denials.
This belligerence is fueling disquiet, and not just outside China. Questions have been raised behind closed doors in the Chinese government over the aggressive tone of Chinese foreign policy under Xi.
Some Chinese officials believe his “over-the-top” remarks on issues such as trade and the South China Sea have caused the Washington backlash.
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In a major speech in March, Xi threatened to fight a “bloody battle” against China’s enemies to ensure the country takes its rightful place in the world.
Tsang, the China expert, said if Beijing returned to the less aggressive foreign policy of Xi’s predecessor, Hu Jintao, it could help defuse current international tensions.
“It would actually take some wind out of the sails of the Trump administration’s approach,” he said. “It is by China feeling that it has to respond in an assertive combative way that it is confirming the Trump administration’s approach is justified.”
But Tsang said Xi couldn’t back down on his aggressive stance without undermining his power.
It would be an admission that he’s wrong, and that his policy backfired," he said. “How can he be wrong? He’s the man to outline China’s vision all the way up to 2049. If he’s wrong then his vision for the future is less credible.”
That only leaves China one option: to spiral further into its aggressive foreign policy.[/FONT]
Yeah, because even floods are China’s fault.
USA has been shouting since 2013 that Huawei is spying for chink government yet for those 6 years it has failed to show proof of the spying. in those 6 years we have seen lots of proof of us government is spying eg the Snowden leaks, Shadowbrockers hack of NSA hacking tools… acha kuwa kondoo wa kusikiza propaganda tu and unakubali ni ukweli
they have been shouting since 2013 but the question they keep dodging is “where is the evidence?”
Let them show us the spying proof otherwise ni ujinga
You haven’t addressed my question. OK let me tell you she was arrested because despite sanctions on Iran ,Huawei went ahead to provide them communication and hardware support. Jibu swali na uwache ungamia ya abdul. By the way not that what you tell me could be true,inaweza kukua ukondoo tu pia
oh please, was she arrested for spying for CHink government?
Why are the sanctions against Iran there in the first place? Has Iran attacked anyone or stolen from them?
The Justice Department has unsealed a damning indictment that links to spies working for the Chinese government an aggressive campaign to hack into U.S. tech and industry giants.
The indictment, out Thursday, accuses China’s main intelligence agency — the Ministry of State Security — of hacking into dozens of tech companies and government departments, largely in an effort to steal intellectual property. Prosecutors said the hackers were part of a Beijing-backed group, dubbed APT10, which various security companies had previously linked to China.
Zhu Hua and Zhang Shilong, both nationals and residents of China, were charged with three counts each of computer hacking, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
None of the companies were named, but noted that the hackers targeted and “stole hundreds of gigabytes of sensitive data” in aviation, space and satellite technology, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and oil and gas exploration, as well as from communications and computer processor firms and maritime technology companies.
According to Reuters, the Chinese hackers successfully targeted Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and their customers. But only the NASA Goddard Space Center and the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab were named in the filing.
The indictment also said the hackers stole personally identifiable information — including names, dates of birth, email addresses, salary information and Social Security numbers — on more than 100,000 U.S. Navy personnel.
The hackers used spearphishing — or highly targeted phishing campaigns — to install malware using malicious Microsoft Word documents and steal data from targeted computers, the indictment reads. Others used keyloggers to steal usernames and passwords to break into employees’ accounts.
“We want China to cease illegal cyber
For going against terms of sanctions
Now that’s a different topic that will need a different thread to address. Usa and Iran have had cozy relationship from kitambo, be it nuclear, terrorism, spying and all. Comes with being super power
Huawei wako wapi in that?
This is more than spying. The west just doesn’t like competition and this issue of spying is the west being hypocritical. And they haven’t proven it, just falsely accusing it.
Huawei phones are more popular than iPhones and this makes the west uncomfortable.
We have seen this exaggeration in other sectors. The west has been writing articles after articles how China is trapping Africa with debt. This is because Africa is avoiding IMF loans and preferring to get Chinese loans. IMF loans have done little for Africa but Chinese loans can be seen transforming Africa.
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By MICHAEL BALSAMO / AP
Updated: January 28, 2019 9:06 PM ET
(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Monday against Chinese tech giant Huawei, two of its subsidiaries and a top executive, who are accused of misleading banks about the company’s business and violating U.S. sanctions.
The company is also charged in a separate case with stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile, according to federal prosecutors.
http://time.com/5514960/charges-against-meng-wanzhou-huawei/
I agree but it comes at a cost. Zambia just lost their airport or electricity distribution company. Yaani tusianzie hapo
That different topic is the same with china. The difference is that China is bigger.
there is nothingng about Huawei spying for China in that
Absolute nonsense, China have the best 5G technology so far. Huawei is ahead of its rivals by 2 years(that’s like a century in the technology World). The runners up are Nokia, and ericcson. No us company. This is the first time US is behind in a critical technology which will have a tremendous effect in our way of life. With 5G, smart cities will become a reality, self driving cars, smart homes etc. US knowing that China, by spearheading this process will have a tremendous advantage, as they will access to very critical and huge data brought by 5G. Stop your propaganda here, US wants to be always on top of everything, but the former Hermit kingdom has awoken, and are slowly but surely assuming the reigns of world domination in the 21st century, their century. Stop castigating a very critical technology like 5g which will completely change the human experience in unimaginable ways.
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You are an idiot, you don’t understand what you are talking of, just parroting.
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