"Chinese cranes perform secret missions during operations. ”
The crane is a spy tool of China's **. ”
This is simply a Trojan horse! ”…
Crane as a spy tool? Originally, I thought this was a joke, but later I looked at the US media reports, and now some politicians in the United States are really serious about Chinese cranes.
U.S. media issued an article saying that Chinese-made cranes pose a security threat to the United States. Source: Wall Street**.
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On February 21, Biden signed an executive order authorizing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard to address the "cybersecurity threat" of Chinese cranes in the United States, according to Wall Street.
How did the crane become a "China threat"?
Let's take a look at the so-called "reasons" of the US side.
The U.S. said there are more than 200 Chinese-made cranes in multiple ports that can be "remotely controlled, maintained and programmed," so "the infiltration of critical U.S. infrastructure by Chinese hackers could interfere with the flow of goods and threaten the lives of Americans."
The U.S. side has gone to great lengths to assert that the Chinese cranes are equipped with sophisticated sensors that can record and track the origin and destination of containers, so that the Chinese side can use this data to capture information about the movement of U.S. supplies and thus obtain U.S. military operations around the world.
As a result, the United States** requires that in the short term, foreign-made cranes deployed in U.S. ports must meet digital security requirements, and that the port network must set baseline cybersecurity standards that all critical infrastructure must comply with. At the same time, in the next five years, the United States will invest more than $20 billion in port infrastructure to support the production of cranes by Japanese subsidiaries in the United States - the last time the United States manufactured cranes was 30 years ago.
In March last year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon said that the cranes produced by a Chinese factory were "Trojan horses" that could engage in "espionage activities" combined with legitimate business in full view.
But the problem is that the skeptics have not been able to come up with even a concrete case to prove that there is indeed a problem with Chinese cranes. Recently, the U.S. Coast Guard claimed to have inspected 92 Chinese cranes, but was silent about the results.
The federation is full of soldiers, and the states are not buying it. In the past two years, ports in Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina and other places have purchased cranes from China.
What is the feedback from these buyers? The Port of Maryland Authority executive ** said that the Port of Baltimore purchased four Zhenhua Heavy Industries cranes and "never found any problems during assembly and testing"; A spokesman for the Port of Norfolk, Virginia, said that the port has been deploying Chinese cranes for 20 years, and that the operators and maintenance of the machines are all local employees. A number of industry executives have spoken out that they do not believe that Chinese cranes have access to sensitive data that other means cannot access.
In September 2021, 4 sets of Zhenhua Heavy Industries cranes arrived at the Port of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Source: Internet.
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According to a U.S.**, nearly 80 percent of the cranes used in U.S. ports come from China, and their quality is widely recognized by the industry.
So why is the United States hyping up this topic lately?
Lu Xiang, an expert on American issues at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told Daomei that in recent years, in the United States, the "threat theory of China's machinery and equipment" has appeared from time to time, but it is the first time that relevant remarks have been so hyped. The reason for this is that the United States continues to expand the "small courtyard and high walls" and promote the "decoupling" of China, but now it has expanded to the field of large-scale equipment in the current Internet of Things era.
The hype of politicians and ** has also attracted criticism from professionals. The Association of Port Authorities of the United States (AAPA) said that it did not find that Chinese cranes posed any safety risks to the United States, and even modern cranes could not track the whereabouts and specific components of the goods.
Some politicians in the United States have been paranoized about victimization: they accuse Chinese information technology equipment of leaving a "back door", and Chinese electric vehicle batteries "threaten the United States*** to warn Europe not to use Chinese security screening equipment ......."In the eyes of these politicians, as long as it is made in China, it is not safe.
Obviously, the drunkard's intention is not to produce products in China, but to compete with China's industries, and behind it is the agitation of some interest groups.
Lu Xiang believes that behind the accusation of smearing China's cranes, there are Japanese Mitsui Group and other machinery and equipment manufacturers, who hope to take advantage of the "security concerns" of the United States, and American politicians want to take the opportunity to speed up the return of manufacturing. But in fact, it is difficult for the United States to quickly revive the heavy machinery manufacturing industry, even if some companies can get subsidies from the United States in the short term, but in the long run, it is difficult for the United States to invest more real money, as evidenced by the previous Foxconn factory construction project in the United States. And these "tossing" increased costs will eventually be passed on to local consumers.
Mao Ning, a spokesperson for China, bluntly denounced the US side's remarks about China's cranes as "generalizing the concept and abusing state power to unreasonably suppress Chinese products and enterprises". She said: "Instrumentalizing and modernizing economic and trade issues will only exacerbate the security risks of the global production and supply chain, and ultimately harm others and ourselves." ”
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