CHINA EVEN STEALS CARTOONS that slam America, Israel.
The Algemeiner1 reports that “The virulently anti-American and antisemitic cartoon (above) tweeted by the Chinese Embassy in Paris on Monday previously appeared on several websites linked to white supremacists and Holocaust deniers.
Accompanied by the text “Qui est le prochain?” (“Who’s next?”), the cartoon showed the figure of death draped in a US flag while holding a scythe embossed with the Star of David. The death figure stood alongside a row of doorways marked with the names of countries such as Syria, Venezuela and Hong Kong — all supposedly the targets of American and “Zionist” destabilization plots.”
According to the Algemeiner in an article picked up by other media, the cartoon first saw life:
- in 2014, it was published on the website of Alain Soral, a French far-right agitator and vocal Holocaust denier
- on a Sept. 2016 article by David Icke — a notorious British Holocaust denier, white supremacist and peddler of antisemitic conspiracy theories, and
- In Feb. 2017, the cartoon ran on AlterInfo, a French Holocaust denial site
The cartoon also has been published in Les Crises, a French left-wing website, and Global Research, a Canada-based website supporting the Cuban and Venezuelan regimes.
The U.S. regularly accuses China of stealing both America’s military secrets and its commercial/industrial (trade) secrets.
Despite Watergate, Richard Nixon was a great president, but he made one major mistake: he opened up China to America and China devoured us.
Administrations — both Democrat and Republican — have been mortgaging America to the Chinese for decades, using the sacrosanct Medicare and Social Security funds as collateral. The funds cannot be legally raided by the politicians, but the politicians have managed to use them as collateral. for loans from China.
Nothing new
The Japanese once — and perhaps still are — great for taking other people’s inventions and improving on them.
As an example, transistors were stolen from the West.
The Japanese reduced them in size and increased their efficiency. Did the inventors get any compensation for the first transistors?
Now, the Japanese are exporting their technology, usually to South Korea. The Koreans now make automobiles based on Japanese plans, electrical appliances, and ocean-going cargo vessels.
The Japanese have come a long way since the end of the war (WW2) when most of the country’s exports were, for want of a better word, “junk.” Companies that bought Japanese products for import, e.g., cameras, were wise to do their own incoming inspection and quality control.
Chinese goods unsafe
It’s no secret that China has little respect for their own people and certainly not for laws in countries to which they export:
- Apples 2,6
Cancer-causing shrimp2
Children’s toys2,5
Cosmetics5
Drywall2
Faulty tires for cars and trucks
Fish culled from polluted waters2,5
Fish fed feces3,5
Flammable clothing for children
Infant formula3
Laminate flooring with excessive amounts of formaldehyde4
Milk products3
Mushrooms fertilized with human feces6
Pet food2,3,5
Poultry6
Pharmaceuticals2,3
Spinach6
Tires3,5
Toothpaste3,5
And the list goes on.
Many of the products, both for human and for animal consumption, contain melamine, a poison that killed at least six Chinese children and sickened nearly 300,000 others. From January-December 2007, more than four-fifths of Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recall notices involved Chinese products.3
China’s food processors continue to use veterinary drugs that the Chinese government has banned — such as clembuterol, administered to animals to give them leaner meat and pinker skin — remain widely used in China despite years of documented consumer illnesses from poisonous residues.6
And of course, virus after virus, some at least partly to blame on the Chinese diet.
No secrets from China
England’s Guardian7 reports that “The FBI on Thursday identified China as the biggest law enforcement threat to the United States, and its director said Beijing was seeking to steal American technology by “any means necessary”.
The FBI director, Christopher Wray, told a conference the bureau currently had about 1,000 investigations open into Chinese technology theft across its 56 regional offices.
The agency’s counterintelligence chief, John Brown, said the bureau arrested 24 people in 2019 in China-related cases and had already arrested 19 people in 2020.
He told the conference at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) that the FBI believed ‘no country poses a greater threat than Communist China’.”
The Chicago Tribune claims that “Determined to attain dominance in cutting-edge fields from robotics to electric cars, U.S. officials charge, Beijing is not only stealing trade secrets but also pressuring American companies to hand over technology to gain access to the vast Chinese market.
U.S. intelligence officials told Congress last month that China poses the biggest commercial and military threat to the United States. A separate report said Beijing will steal or copy technologies it can't make itself.
Rooting out theft could prove impossible. Beijing typically doesn't dispatch spies on missions of commercial espionage. Rather, it encourages Chinese who study and work abroad to copy or steal technology and rewards them when they do. So U.S. companies might have no reason to suspect anything — until a Chinese employee leaves and the employer discovers that trade secrets have been compromised.”
Military secrets, especially Navy secrets, are China’s target-du-jour according to the Business Insider web site.
“US Navy defense contractors and subcontractors have reportedly suffered "more than a handful" of disconcerting security breaches at the hands of Chinese hackers over the past year and a half.
"Attacks on our networks are not new, but attempts to steal critical information are increasing in both severity and sophistication," Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer said in an internal memo in October, The Wall Street Journal, which reviewed the memo, reported Friday.
"We must act decisively to fully understand both the nature of these attacks and how to prevent further loss of vital military information," he added.
Earlier this year, Chinese government hackers stole important data on US Navy undersea-warfare programs from an unidentified contractor. Among the stolen information were plans for a new supersonic anti-ship missile, The Washington Post, citing US officials, reported in June.
China is believed to have been behind multiple cybersecurity breaches that facilitated the theft of significant amounts of data on the F-22 and the F-35, among other aircraft. That information is suspected to have played a role in the development of China's new fifth-generation stealth fighters.”
The Mercury News of San Jose CA published a report that “Four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army have been charged with breaking into the networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of tens of millions of Americans, the Justice Department said Monday, blaming Beijing for one of the largest hacks in history to target consumer data.
The 2017 breach affected more than 145 million people, with the hackers successfully stealing names, addresses, Social Security and driver’s license numbers and other personal information stored in the company’s databases.
The four also are accused of stealing the company’s trade secrets, including database designs, law enforcement officials said
The case is the latest Justice Department accusation against Chinese hackers suspected of breaching networks of American corporations. It comes as the Trump administration has warned against what it sees as the growing political and economic influence of China, and efforts by Beijing to collect data on Americans and steal scientific research and innovation.
The administration has also been pressing allies not to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to be part of their 5G wireless networks due to concerns that the equipment could be used to collect data and for surveillance.”
Suggestions
What can be done?
- Look for a label on everything; many items must include the country of origin. A U.S. Customs’ web site, https://tinyurl.com/ya782xum, states that Every article of foreign origin entering the United States must be legibly marked with the English name of the country of origin unless an exception from marking is provided for in the law, but then proceeds to list many items that are exempt.
If you are shopping on line, ask the seller what is the product’s country of origin. You may need to ask (a) where was the product assembled, and (b) where did the components originate. (It is less expensive to import parts into the U.S. than complete products and assemble them in the U.S. At least there is a chance that an American will earn a salary and perhaps some quality control will be applied.)
Search for “(product category) NOT made in China” — the quote (“) marks are important.
Surprise: There ARE cell phones “NOT made in China.” These include
- ASUS ROG (Taiwan)
LG G8X Thin Q (South Korea)
LG Stylo 5 (South Korea)
LG V60 Thin Q (South Korea)
Moto G Stylus (India)
Samsung Galaxy (South Korea)
Sony Xperia 1 II (Japan)
Samsung even has a tablet made for it in Vietnam.
There are countries that produce economy clothing11 (Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua in Central America as well as Vietnam, Cambodia, Italy, and several others in Europe and the Far East). Better, of course, is to “Buy American.”
Mexico, in addition to exporting car parts, also exports foods — sometimes tainted, but not as risky as Chinese imports.
Bottom Line
While I enjoy Americanized Chinese cuisine, especially spicy Sichuan, and I used to play Chinese checkers, I try to avoid things “Made In China” as much as possible.
Sometimes the only option is to “buy Chinese.” But many other times, diligent shoppers can find the products they want made elsewhere.
It is time to sever our dependency on China. It has proven to be no friend to America.
Sources
1. Algemeiner: https://tinyurl.com/y965txtz
2. 6 Toxic Chinese Products: https://tinyurl.com/ybszxtrf
3: CRS Report for Congress: RS22713.pdf
4. Lumber Liquidators: https://tinyurl.com/y85lyveg
5. The Street: https://tinyurl.com/y9xg9a8c
6. Food & Water Watch – Dangerous Food Imports:
http:\\www.foodandwaterwatch.org
7: Guardian: https://tinyurl.com/uq36472
8. Chicago Tribune: https://tinyurl.com/ybd7xapu (pay to read site)
9: Business Insider: https://tinyurl.com/y8khhu4w
10. Mercury News: https://tinyurl.com/yawdlzoa
11. Clothing: https://tinyurl.com/y4doq2jh
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.
Web sites (URLs) beginning https://tinyurl.com/ are generated by the free Tiny URL utility and reduce lengthy URLs to manageable size.
No comments:
Post a Comment