Changing Politics & Economics of Western Countries vs The Pariah

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China gets any cooperation it wants by financing the building of huge infrastructure projects in these land using Chinese capital leaving the county deeply in debt to China. Once they cannot pay back the loans  (which was obvious from the gitgo, China demands and gets access to anything it wants ... these countries have become debtor captives



China has been building this scheme for decades

[Anonymous]

China gets any cooperation it wants by bouildin infrastructure projects in these land by providing the capital. Once they cannot pay back the loans  China demands and gets access to anything it wants ... these countries have become captive



China has been building this scheme for decades

Bribery works pretty well too.

[cc]

Yes. Bribery also works  in 3rd world countries like a charm. I would expect in many cases it's a combination of the 2

[Anonymous]

Imperialism with Chinese characteristics......that's so accurate.

[cc]

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They are whores for China.

[Anonymous]

While we are being distracted about Russia, Ukraine and inflation, China is being China.

A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group successfully compromised the computer networks of at least six U.S. states between May 2021 and February 2022.



CNBC reported cybersecurity firm Mandiant's findings that detail how the hackers employed by the Chinese government were able to exploit vulnerabilities in web applications used by these state governments to gain access to their networks.



The group that hacked the state networks is known as APT41. It is a state-sponsored espionage organization that takes advantage of flaws in software to exploit existing security vulnerabilities. The group is able to adapt its approach to hacking using different methods.



The Mandiant research said, "APT41's recent activity against U.S. state governments consists of significant new capabilities, from new attack vectors to post-compromise tools and techniques."



Mandiant said, "APT41 has primarily used malicious ViewStates to trigger code execution against targeted web applications. Within the ASP.NET framework, ViewState is a method for storing the application's page and control values in HTTP requests to and from the server. The ViewState is sent to the server with each HTTP request as a Base64 encoded string in a hidden form field. The web server decodes the string and applies additional transformations to the string so that it can be unpacked into data structures the server can use. This process is known as deserialization."



Mandiant is not the first tech company to sound the alarms about the threat posed to American cyber sovereignty by APT41.



Researchers from BlackBerry have previously identified APT41 as "a prolific Chinese state-sponsored cyberthreat group."



In the fall of 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted five Chinese nationals for crimes related to computer intrusions that affected over 100 private companies in the U.S. and abroad. Some of those who were indicted were part of APT41.



Mandiant said on Tuesday that APT41 appeared "undeterred" by 2020 indictment and that the group's goals remain "unknown."



The Mandiant researchers said, "Overall goals of APT41's campaign remain unknown. Their persistence to gain access into government networks, exemplified by re-compromising previous victims and targeting multiple agencies within the same state, show that whatever they are after it is important. We have found them everywhere, and that is unnerving."



In February, FBI Director Christopher Wray accused the Chinese government of "trying to steal" information and technology. Wray extended the accusation to condemn the Chinese Communist Party for launching cyber attacks against Western corporations.



In 2021, the U.S., European Union, NATO, and other allied leaders blamed the Chinese government for directing and sponsoring a massive cyberattack on the Microsoft Exchange email servers.

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[Anonymous]

China is really escalating the militarization of the South China Sea Islands.

[Anonymous]

China will cause droughts and famines in neighboring countries because they screwed up their own country.

China Is Running Out of Water and That's Scary for Asia

Of all Bejing's problems — demographic decline, a stifling political climate, the stalling or reversal of economic reforms — dwindling natural resources may be the most urgent.



Thousands of rivers have disappeared, while industrialization and pollution have spoiled much of the water that remains. By some estimates, 80% to 90% of China's groundwater and half of its river water is too dirty to drink; more than half of its groundwater and one-quarter of its river water cannot even be used for industry or farming.



This is an expensive problem. China is forced to divert water from comparatively wet regions to the drought-plagued north; experts assess that the country loses well over $100 billion annually as a result of water scarcity. Shortages and unsustainable agriculture are causing the desertification of large chunks of land. Water-related energy shortfalls have become common across the country.



The government has promoted rationing and improvements in water efficiency, but nothing sufficient to arrest the problem. This month, Chinese authorities announced that Guangzhou and Shenzhen — two major cities in the relatively water-rich Pearl River Delta — will face severe drought well into next year.



In 2005, Premier Wen Jiabao stated that water scarcity threatened the "very survival of the Chinese nation." A minister of water resources declared that China must "fight for every drop of water or die." Hyperbole aside, resource scarcity and political instability often go hand in hand.



Heightened foreign tensions may follow. China watchers worry that if the Chinese Communist Party feels insecure domestically, it may lash out against its international rivals. Even short of that, water problems are causing geopolitical strife.



For years, China has tried to solve its resource challenges by coercing and impoverishing its neighbors.



By building a series of giant dams on the Mekong River, Beijing has triggered recurring droughts and devastating floods in Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and Laos that depend on that waterway. The diversion of rivers in Xinjiang has had devastating downstream effects in Central Asia.



A growing source of tension in the Himalayas is China's plan to dam key waters before they reach India, leaving that country (and Bangladesh) the losers. As the Indian strategic analyst Brahma Chellaney puts it, "China's territorial aggrandizement in the South China Sea and the Himalayas ... has been accompanied by stealthier efforts to appropriate water resources in transnational river basins."

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[Anonymous]

China will cause droughts and famines in neighboring countries because they screwed up their own country.

China Is Running Out of Water and That's Scary for Asia

Of all Bejing's problems — demographic decline, a stifling political climate, the stalling or reversal of economic reforms — dwindling natural resources may be the most urgent.



Thousands of rivers have disappeared, while industrialization and pollution have spoiled much of the water that remains. By some estimates, 80% to 90% of China's groundwater and half of its river water is too dirty to drink; more than half of its groundwater and one-quarter of its river water cannot even be used for industry or farming.



This is an expensive problem. China is forced to divert water from comparatively wet regions to the drought-plagued north; experts assess that the country loses well over $100 billion annually as a result of water scarcity. Shortages and unsustainable agriculture are causing the desertification of large chunks of land. Water-related energy shortfalls have become common across the country.



The government has promoted rationing and improvements in water efficiency, but nothing sufficient to arrest the problem. This month, Chinese authorities announced that Guangzhou and Shenzhen — two major cities in the relatively water-rich Pearl River Delta — will face severe drought well into next year.



In 2005, Premier Wen Jiabao stated that water scarcity threatened the "very survival of the Chinese nation." A minister of water resources declared that China must "fight for every drop of water or die." Hyperbole aside, resource scarcity and political instability often go hand in hand.



Heightened foreign tensions may follow. China watchers worry that if the Chinese Communist Party feels insecure domestically, it may lash out against its international rivals. Even short of that, water problems are causing geopolitical strife.



For years, China has tried to solve its resource challenges by coercing and impoverishing its neighbors.



By building a series of giant dams on the Mekong River, Beijing has triggered recurring droughts and devastating floods in Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and Laos that depend on that waterway. The diversion of rivers in Xinjiang has had devastating downstream effects in Central Asia.



A growing source of tension in the Himalayas is China's plan to dam key waters before they reach India, leaving that country (and Bangladesh) the losers. As the Indian strategic analyst Brahma Chellaney puts it, "China's territorial aggrandizement in the South China Sea and the Himalayas ... has been accompanied by stealthier efforts to appropriate water resources in transnational river basins."

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China is a very bad neighbour.

[Anonymous]

The US is far from a perfect neighbour, but it could be worse. How would you like to have China for a neighbour.



Chinese hackers reportedly target India's power grid



India's power sector has been targeted by hackers in a long-term operation thought to have been carried out by a state-sponsored Chinese group, a U.S.-based private cybersecurity company says in a new report



BANGKOK -- India's power sector has been targeted by hackers in a long-term operation thought to have been carried out by a state-sponsored Chinese group, a U.S.-based private cybersecurity company detailed in a new report.



Over the last several months, the Insikt Group, the threat research division of Massachusetts-based Recorded Future, said it has collected evidence that hackers targeted seven Indian state centers responsible for carrying out electrical dispatch and grid control near a border area disputed by the two nuclear neighbors.

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[Anonymous]

The US is far from a perfect neighbour, but it could be worse. How would you like to have China for a neighbour.



Chinese hackers reportedly target India's power grid



India's power sector has been targeted by hackers in a long-term operation thought to have been carried out by a state-sponsored Chinese group, a U.S.-based private cybersecurity company says in a new report



BANGKOK -- India's power sector has been targeted by hackers in a long-term operation thought to have been carried out by a state-sponsored Chinese group, a U.S.-based private cybersecurity company detailed in a new report.



Over the last several months, the Insikt Group, the threat research division of Massachusetts-based Recorded Future, said it has collected evidence that hackers targeted seven Indian state centers responsible for carrying out electrical dispatch and grid control near a border area disputed by the two nuclear neighbors.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/chinese-hackers-reportedly-target-indias-power-grid-83928423">https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireS ... d-83928423">https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/chinese-hackers-reportedly-target-indias-power-grid-83928423

I wish China was not next door to Tauwan.

[cc]

Finally, sigh



https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-to-ban-huawei-from-5g-network-sources-1.5911145">Canada banning Chinese telecom giant Huawei, ZTE from 5G networks



 Canada is banning China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE, another Chinese company, from participating in the country's 5G wireless networks, citing national security concerns.



Telecommunication companies in Canada will not be permitted to include any products or services from these telecommunications companies in their networks. Providers who already have this equipment installed will be required to cease its use, and remove it.



Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Francois-Philippe Champagne and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino made the announcement about prohibiting these "high-risk vendors," in Ottawa on Thursday.

[Anonymous]

Finally, sigh



https://server2.kproxy.com/servlet/redirect.srv/sfi/safoyhgq/smno/p2/politics/canada-to-ban-huawei-from-5g-network-sources-1.5911145">Canada banning Chinese telecom giant Huawei, ZTE from 5G networks



 Canada is banning China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE, another Chinese company, from participating in the country's 5G wireless networks, citing national security concerns.



Telecommunication companies in Canada will not be permitted to include any products or services from these telecommunications companies in their networks. Providers who already have this equipment installed will be required to cease its use, and remove it.



Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Francois-Philippe Champagne and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino made the announcement about prohibiting these "high-risk vendors," in Ottawa on Thursday.