U.S. Panel Warns Of Chinese Espionage
China Stealing "Vast Amounts Of Sensitive Information" In Digital Spy Attacks
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The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission also said in its annual report to lawmakers that aggressive Chinese space programs are allowing Beijing to target U.S. military forces better.
"China is stealing vast amounts of sensitive information from U.S. computer networks," said Larry Wortzel, chairman of the commission set up by Congress in 2000 to advise, investigate and report on U.S.-China affairs.
The commission of six Democrats and six Republicans said in the unanimously approved report that China's massive military modernization and its "impressive but disturbing" space and computer warfare capabilities "suggest China is intent on expanding its sphere of control even at the expense of its Asian neighbors and the United States."
The commission recommended that lawmakers provide money for U.S. government programs that would monitor and protect computer networks.
Messages left with the Chinese Embassy in Washington were not immediately returned. Officials in Beijing have responded to past reports by saying China does not try to undermine other countries' interests and seeks healthy ties with the United States.
The report comes two months before President-elect Barack Obama takes office. The Democratic Obama administration probably will continue the Republican Bush administration's efforts to work with and encourage China, a veto-holding member of the U.N. Security Council that the United States needs in nuclear confrontations with Iran and North Korea.
During the campaign for president, then-candidate Obama said that "China is rising, and it's not going away," adding that Beijing is "neither our enemy nor our friend; they're competitors."
In the commission's report, Chinese military strategist Wang Huacheng is quoted as calling U.S. dependence on space assets and information technology its "soft ribs."
China is stealing vast amounts of sensitive information from U.S. computer networks.
Larry Wortzel, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission ChairmanPeople's Liberation Army officer and author Cai Fengzhen is quoted as saying that the "area above ground, airspace and outer space are inseparable and integrated. They are the strategic commanding height of modern informationalized warfare."
"If this becomes Chinese policy," the report said, "it could set the stage for conflict with the United States and other nations that expect the right of passage for their spacecraft."
The commission also found fault with what it said was China's use of prison labor to produce export products and with Beijing's lax regulatory oversight of an estimated 4.5 million fish farms.
"Even more shocking is the lack of regulations and inspections within the United States," Commissioner Carolyn Bartholomew said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, she said, inspects less than 2 percent of all fish imports. The FDA plans this week to open several offices in China, she said, but "the challenge is immense. More than a billion pounds of Chinese seafood, valued at $1.9 billion, was imported into the United States in 2006."
The commission also criticized China for violating commitments to avoid trade-distorting measures, adopting new laws that may restrict foreign access to China's markets and keeping its currency undervalued to get an export advantage.
It recommended that Congress enact legislation to respond to China's currency manipulation and create enforceable disclosure requirements on investments in the United States for foreign sovereign wealth funds and other foreign state-controlled companies.
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Seriously, is this a joke ????????what are we gonna do about it..
Seriously, is this a joke ????????what are we gonna do about it..
Posted by Demdump at 01:48 PM : Nov 20, 2008
Hey---we''re busy trying to catch terrorists--what do you want?
The FBI has over 800,000 names on the terror watch list--haven''t heard where that list has been responsible for "catching" any cells.
I also think we should continue to let our corporations keep the Chinese employed---after all that''s over 250% profit for them in the Chinese efforts to kill the world---
Tell you what--if anyone in my family got sick on a product made in China-I would hold the corporation complicit!
Our "government" has dropped the ball in so many ways these past 8 years--we can only hope the Obama team can clean this mess up!
Jefferson was right:
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
Hopefully the trials for genocide and crimes against humanity will be next.
Posted by impeach___w at 02:09 PM : Nov 20, 2008
Hahahahaha
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Posted by notfooled at 02:40 PM : Nov 20, 2008
Sure! The left wing will have its political show trials and the right wing will have its political show trials when they get back in power (which ***will*** happen).
Yep - that''s where we want this country to go!
Yep - that''''s where we want this country to go!
Posted by oldone61 at 02:48 PM : Nov 20, 2008
Will they sell hot dogs and popcorn at the show trials? If so I''ll be there.
In the pursuit of the mighty all dollar we have compromised national security....
How will multinational corporations deal with China.
Just like Google has done? Shame on our corporate leaders for selling out. Oh yes I forgot,we do not have the talent here in the US to develop anything this is why we need the H1 visas.What a bunch of crooks. What we do not have here is leaders with values and respect for fellow Americans.
Posted by thuderstone
It will be interesting to see what happens.
Posted by incog-nito
Don''t wait for the trials to get your pop corn and hot dogs, just go to a ball game.
Or more short-sighted.
While America. the middle east and Africa is dealing with a split down middle America for many reasons. RUSSIA AND CHINA WORKING WITH THE MIDDLE EAST HAS BIGGER PLANS. IT''S ALL IN THE NEWS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS READ YOUR HISTORY AND YOU''LL REALIZE WHAT THE NEXT STEP IS FOR CHINA AND RUSSIA. Watch the movie Red Dawn(just a movie)but could happen when Russia and South America build up forces with the help of China and the Muslim nation of the Middle East.
Naturally, we can all thank the efforts of the neocon Fascist Nazi Bush administration which opened the flood gates for "free trade" to China as well as the ever-greedy corporate executives in Corporate America for "farming out" sensitive electronics to be made and assembled in China and therefore copied and used against us.
The dictionary has a word for people who put money ahead of national pride and patriotism.
I think its called TRAITOR!
SIG HEIL, THOSE WHO BROKE THE LAW SHOULD BE PUNISHED: EXCEPT ME!!!!, BUSH!!!
Or more short-sighted.
Posted by ibsteve2u at 04:09 PM : Nov 20, 2008
Yes there is. it is a Communist or Reigious zealot in search of World Domination in the name of (what/whoever?). They lose sight of the welfare of other humans and try to install their idea of (perfection?)
A Capitalist usually subscribes to a form of ''Enlightened Self Interest''
As incredible as it sounds, most Americans
are so stupid they think that china is
no longer a communist country.
Yeah, I bet they do. Note the key word in this passage: "monitor." It looks like Americans are trading the last vestiges of their privacy for a false sense of secutiry. It started with monitoring phone calls after 9/11, now on to computer communications. What''s next, parabolic mics on every corner? I''m not given to paranoid delusions, but this is getting mighty stinky, fast. And just who will be doing this monitoring? A Chinese or Indian sub-contractor??
It''s not stealing if you own the country you are taking the information from....
Our country''s security apparatus has sold us all out.
With Multi-national corporations collaborating with foreign intelligence agencies to spy on Americans in the name of security, Microspoft and others.
I suggest that everyone who wants to know and understand how our NSA is collaborating, then read then New York Times'' contributor: James Bramford''s
The Shadow Factory -no joke.
Well duh.
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by lmartink
November 22, 2008 1:25 PM PST
- The reason nothing will happen is the big U.S. based corporations produce toxic junk in China which they sell here for tremendous profit.
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See all 40 CommentsThey turn around and donate some of that moey to elect political candidates who will keep trading with Funking China.
Why China did not make Bush''s Axis of Evil list is beyond me.