Canada finally bans China's Huawei telecom from its networks. But the company still employs about 1,500 people, mostly in research and development, on Canadian soil. As Huawei is controlled by the CCP - all of its operations globally should be shut down. theepochtimes.com/canada-and-the…
Huawei cannibalized Nortel - a Canadian telecom with 70% of global business - that went bankrupt due to China's hacking of the company in 2004. Canada's government didn't protect Nortel even though Nortel's security asked. Read @scoopercooperglobalnews.ca/news/7275588/i…
"Nortel’s brass was mostly disinterested in the investigation and did little more than change executive account passwords, [the cyber-expert said]. He says they were more focused on year-to-year profits and innovation budgets than protecting Nortel’s precious research." - Cooper
Fixing the China problem requires fixing corporate practices in the US and allies so that executive compensation is in stock that can never be sold. That gives the CEOs the longest-term concern for shareholder value rather than short-term bonuses linked to next quarter profits.
"...management didn’t believe hacking was a real issue ... So the systematic hacking continued ... and as a result ... in 2009 — after getting massively underbid on a series of contracts by China’s state-champion company Huawei — Nortel went bankrupt."
"...it was more than coincidence, [the former Nortel cyber-expert, Brian Shields] believes, that upstart Huawei suddenly replaced Nortel as the world’s dominant internet technology provider." - Cooper
"A Canadian intelligence expert ... said China’s attack on Nortel [included] systematic hacking and planting of electronic bugs and spies inside Nortel facilities...usage of Chinese PhD students hired by Nortel to steal research, and ..."
"...attempts to compromise Nortel managers by using spies from the Chinese Communist Party and People's Liberation Army." - Cooper
“There were visits by Nortel executives going to China to be wined and dined,” the [intelligence] expert said. “It was China’s classic United Front statecraft. And those executives were told in no uncertain terms by their security, ‘You are being recruited, and ..." - Cooper
"...they will compromise your computers and cellphones.’” But to Shields and former CSIS agents, it seemed Nortel management saw the warnings as exaggerated spy novel plots." - Cooper
“There were people that were caught, and devices found, and backdoors found and traced back to the Chinese. And this was escalated up to Nortel leaders. And they didn’t really want to see it.” - Intel expert quoted by Cooper
"The [intel] expert said Canadian intel eventually [discovered] that the Chinese Communist Party was using Chinese organized crime gangsters, in attacks on Nortel. “We have seen organized crime, industry and government all spy and collect on Nortel,” the expert said." - Cooper
Canadian intelligence (CSIS) official "Juneau-Katsuya said he first completed a threat assessment on Nortel in the 1990s, and determined it was China’s top corporate espionage target." - Cooper
"Soon CSIS recognized “quite an interesting traffic between Nortel and China,” Juneau-Katsuya says. But his alerts to Nortel fell on deaf ears, he said." - Cooper
It's clear that Canada's top leadership - both political and corporate - were negligent in their duty to protect Canada's top company in the face of China's attacks. And we are all -globally- paying the price now. We need tougher laws against these kinds of leadership failures.
"Juneau-Katsuya suspects the Chinese Communist Party used the United Front to take Nortel down and boosted Huawei into its place by providing the company with subsidies and stolen technology." - Cooper
"By 2008 Nortel was in trouble and it desperately needed to land the 3G Universal Mobile Telecommunications wireless contract offered in Canada by Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. But Huawei won the deal by underbidding Nortel an estimated 40 per cent." - Cooper
"A similar case occurred in 2005 ... when Huawei [apparently used hacked information to] beat out Nortel and U.K. telecom Marconi to construct part of a $17-billion fibre optic network for British Telecom (BT)....And one year later, Marconi collapsed."
Long story short - it appears that Huawei hacked Canadian and UK telecom companies (Nortel and Marconi) to steal their IP and pricing data, and then underbid them for contracts in their own countries, putting them out of business.
Nortel was at the time Canada's biggest company and had its technology facilitating 70 percent of the world's internet traffic.
After reading Cooper's excellent piece, I think a reasonable person could conclude that we need to rip out not only Huawei from our systems and bidding processes, but all of China's companies (e.g. civil nuclear companies) ...
... which likely systematically benefit from stolen pricing data and thus can underbid their domestic rivals and destroy their businesses. Once these businesses go, it is difficult if not impossible to reinvent them given the increasing competition from China.
As China's companies step into our critical infrastructure and key nodes of our economies (from all countries), they have increasing control of all of our systems, and leverage over our political leaders who will never want to admit the grave mistakes they made.
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Hungary's Orban is not a conservative - and America's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) shouldn't go near him with a 10-foot pole. Orban undermines democracy and liberty in Europe - and is close to Putin and friendly with China. cbsnews.com/amp/news/vikto…
That Orban's government paid for a CPAC conference in Hungary is highly questionable - CPAC is an American political organization and should be purely American funded.
In fact, by taking foreign money (including in-kind donations) and then broadcasting back to the U.S., CPAC could be violating the U.S. Foreign Agent Registration Act.
CNN and apparently a Stanford prof (@RobertCrews22) are trying to blame the Kabul chaos on Trump - a sorry distortion. If you blame any past president, blame Obama for
precipitously expanding, then drawing down U.S. forces from their height in 2011 (I was there then).
Trump raised troops briefly, perhaps to get a deal, then lowered them in line with the downward trend Obama started. Biden fumbled logistics and tactics at the goal line.
To defeat the Taliban we should have 1) fired all corrupt Afghan officials, 2) sprayed Taliban opium fields with herbicide from the air, 3) dealt with Pakistan military/intelligence support of the Taliban, 4) sanctioned China/Pakistan for support of the Taliban.
The reason why Kabul fell so quickly to the Taliban is that the Taliban had infiltrated and compromised Afghanistan's leadership. China is trying to do the same in Washington, DC.
Shame on the @NYTimes for platforming propaganda by a genocidal regime in China. Cooperation with the CCP is leading to ever weaker democracies, economically and militarily. nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opi…
The @NYTimes is happy to publish an op-ed by a leader of China's CCP (which is committing genocide against the Uyghurs), but not by a member of the US Senate. Those editors need to get their priorities straight. politico.com/news/2020/06/0…
Both of these statements by the former Vice Foreign Minister of China are untrue: "China does not want to replace U.S. dominance in the world. Nor does China need to worry about the United States changing China’s system."
The most underreported story of 2020: the US printed about $3 trillion USD and pumped it into the economy (about 5x the US trade deficit). The effect on inflation? Not much because everybody's got it under their mattresses. cnbc.com/2020/08/05/the…
The Euro area money supply, by contrast, increased by about 1 trillion euro (1.2 trillion USD) over the same period.
China's money supply also increased by about 10.5% (~$3.4 trillion USD equivalent) over the last year.
The signing of the BECA defense pact yesterday by the US and #India is a truly historic agreement as India has been a leader of the non-aligned movement (NAM) that arose at the Bandung Conference of 1955 in Indonesia... tribuneindia.com/news/nation/in…
... and was formalized at the Cairo Conference of 1961. During the entire Cold War with the #SovietUnion, India was non-aligned with the western world despite the fact that it was a democracy.
The year after Cairo, in 1962, China launched a war against India for the Aksai Chin, taking 14,700 square miles of Indian territory and causing 1,300 Indian deaths and 1,000 wounded.