According to the Observer, according to recent reports by Wall Street and CNBC, Biden intends to build freight cranes in the United States to replace Chinese cranes currently used in American ports. The reason they gave was that they were doing it to dispel concerns about Chinese cranes.
The report also pointed out that this move is part of Biden's efforts to strengthen the security of U.S. port networks. Separately, the U.S. Coast Guard has issued a safety directive requiring foreign cranes currently in use at strategic seaports to meet certain digital security standards.
According to the United States, in the next five years, it is expected to spend nearly $20 billion to ensure port security, which also includes funds for the production of cranes. Funding was made for the passage of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, which was designed to enable Japan's Mitsui Group companies in the United States to produce cranes.
Seeing this, in fact, we can understand, are Chinese cranes really endangering the United States, or are Chinese cranes blocking their way to make money? $20 billion is not a small amount, especially when the Ministry of Defense is short of funds, it is really not easy to come up with such a large amount of money.
From this, we can see that after the Huawei incident, the United States is like a frightened "rabbit", and "all the grass and trees" is the best adjective for the United States at this stage, because the United States feels threatened by whatever it sees. Before, it was China's chips, China's electric vehicles, China's wind power, China's photovoltaics, and now it is eyeing China's cranes. At this stage, the United States ** is tirelessly hyping up that Chinese cranes are a threat to the United States.
What threat? In fact, the United States has regarded the Chinese crane as a copy of Huawei, slandering it as a spy tool.
Earlier, the American "Wall Street" reported that the American *** department and the Pentagon's ** are skeptical of the heavy cranes produced in China. They feared that the cranes could be used as spy tools to carry out covert missions.
* They have likened the cranes to "Trojan horses," believing they contain sensors that can record sensitive information and transmit it to China, and the United States fears that the cranes could be used to obtain intelligence about the shipment of military supplies.
It is worth mentioning that the Trojan horse is a story from ancient Greek legends, derived from the Iliad in Homer's epic poems. The Trojan Horse is the story of the Trojan Horse used by the Greek coalition to attack the city of Troy during the Trojan War.
The Trojan horse was wrapped as a harmless and beautiful gift, but it contained assassinated soldiers, and when the Trojans moved the Trojan into the city, the Greek soldiers hiding inside the Trojan came out at night, opened the gates, and helped the other Greek armies capture the city. As a result, the term "Trojan horse" is often used in modern times as a metaphor for the means by which a target can be infiltrated and sabotaged or attacked from the inside by a seemingly harmless manner.
In other words, the United States believes that while the Chinese-made crane looks harmless, it is actually a "spy" with an attack tool inside. They believe that the shore container cranes manufactured by Zhenhua Heavy Industries occupy nearly 80% of the share in U.S. ports. These cranes will be operated using software developed in China upon arrival in the United States, with support and maintenance services provided by Chinese technicians.
There are noses and eyes, but the funny thing is that the United States has not disclosed any cases of Chinese cranes causing harm to them at all. Empty white teeth want to slander Chinese cranes, this is completely a "bandit act"!
Chinese cranes are not spy tools at all, and according to Xiang Ligang, an expert in China's communications field, no matter what modern port facilities are, they will definitely use sensors to transmit data through the network. But that doesn't mean that sensors will necessarily transmit sensitive information, because U.S. ports belong to U.S. companies, and even if Chinese cranes want to collect data, they need the cooperation of U.S. operators.
Therefore, whether it is analyzed from a rational point of view or from an objective fact, Chinese cranes are not spy tools at all. Some people say that flies don't bite seamless eggs, why did the United States set its sights on Chinese cranes?
In fact, this is attributed to the "victim paranoia" of the United States, and Chinese cranes are not the only targets of the United States, and the United States has also targeted Chinese refrigerators, power transformers, and so on. A person who has wronged you knows best how wronged you are, and the United States is targeting China so much, just trying to prevent China's development.