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‘Clearly Overlooked This’: Probe Finds Strange Communication Devices On Chinese Cranes In US Ports
Daily Caller ^ | 3/7/24 | Jake Smith

Posted on 03/07/2024 11:28:39 AM PST by CFW

A congressional investigation has discovered strange communication equipment on Chinese-built cargo cranes at U.S seaports, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Rather than building them domestically at potentially higher costs, the U.S. relies heavily on Chinese-built cargo cranes that are relatively cheap to produce and equip at seaports across the country. The congressional probe discovered that several of these cranes, built by Chinese mega-manufacturer ZMPC, contain communications devices that were not requested or don’t appear to support standard operations, heightening existing espionage concerns, according to the WSJ.

U.S. intelligence has warned that Chinese cranes – equipped with an array of sensors and equipment – could be exploited by Beijing, as part of China’s larger effort to disrupt national security through several fronts. Beijing continues to insist the U.S.’ national security concerns about Chinese-built cranes are “entirely paranoia” and constitute “[an abuse of] national power to obstruct normal economic and trade cooperation,” according to the WSJ.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycallernewsfoundation.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: ca; china; chinacranes; commerce; corruption; espionage; shipping; spying; supply; surveillance; trade; usports
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Don't worry. Don't worry at all. Our intelligence community is right on top of investigating any threat to our nation. They are spying on conservatives and searching for anyone who was in DC three years ago. Nothing gets by them!
1 posted on 03/07/2024 11:28:39 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

Then there is this little insignificant story:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies


2 posted on 03/07/2024 11:31:30 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Dems: We cheated fair and square!!!)
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To: CFW

Trojan horses


3 posted on 03/07/2024 11:31:42 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: CFW

Looks like they’re selling us the rope they’ll use to hang us.


4 posted on 03/07/2024 11:33:24 AM PST by ken in texas
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To: TigersEye

ChiCom Ping.


5 posted on 03/07/2024 11:35:11 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: CFW

Ask Buttplug


6 posted on 03/07/2024 11:35:56 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: CFW

We are so naïve and cowed by fear of being called racist that the Chinese must be laughing their azzes off.


7 posted on 03/07/2024 11:43:15 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: CFW

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/21/biden-executive-order-on-port-cybersecurity-targets-china-made-cranes.html

The AAPA, which lobbies on behalf of the nation’s major container ports, has said in the past there is no evidence to the support the claims about Chinese-manufactured crane cyber vulnerabilities, characterizing the comments as “sensational.”

Public comments begin Wednesday over the notice of the proposed rulemaking and will end April 22.


8 posted on 03/07/2024 11:47:59 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I’m sure the recent arrivals would love jobs as stevedores in our ports.


9 posted on 03/07/2024 11:55:18 AM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
We are so naïve and cowed by fear of being called racist that the Chinese must be laughing their azzes off.

I'd bet anything that they fund the "you're a racist" training in the media, in the schools ... just like the Middle East funds the environmental noise that shuts down domestic production forcing us and other countries to rely on ... shazam ... the Middle East for energy.

Once you see it you can't unsee it.

10 posted on 03/07/2024 11:58:20 AM PST by Lizavetta
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“I’d bet anything that they fund the “you’re a racist” training in the media, in the schools ... just like the Middle East funds the environmental noise that shuts down domestic production forcing us and other countries to rely on ... shazam ... the Middle East for energy.”

They absolutely donate tons of money to Universities and send many thousands of their students here to work in our elite schools and research labs. The Universities like it because they pay full tuition. There are also many Chinese scientists working in our industrial labs. This is how they learn how to improve their scientific methods AND learn our latest results. When I raised that issue with management they just ignored it.


11 posted on 03/07/2024 12:10:20 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

We are definitely NOT in the best of hands.


12 posted on 03/07/2024 12:11:05 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: Jim Robinson

“Trojan horses”


They seem to be coming in at every gate and port to our nation.


13 posted on 03/07/2024 12:12:19 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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“Don’t worry. Don’t worry at all. Our intelligence community is right on top of investigating any threat to our nation.”

Especially those 51 Intel Officers who proclaimed that Hunter’s Laptop was Russian Disinformation.


14 posted on 03/07/2024 12:12:40 PM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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Two related links, the first from 2021...

CPP Investments assumes sole ownership of Ports America Founded in 1921, Ports America manages 13.4 million TEUs annually.

The second is from this past December...

MPs call for new measures to rein in Canadian pension investments in China Committee calls for a list of Chinese companies barred from Canadian pension fund investments

Are the ChiComs running our Ports? And hoovering up the billions of dollars that were/are supposed to go to port upgrades...?

15 posted on 03/07/2024 12:13:37 PM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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>>Don’t worry. Don’t worry at all. Our intelligence community is right on top of investigating any threat to our nation. They are spying on conservatives and searching for anyone who was in DC three years ago. Nothing gets by them!

You forgot to mention, they also investigate parents active in PTA meetings who oppose castration of gender confused children.


16 posted on 03/07/2024 12:15:01 PM PST by rod5591
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To: CFW
Could this be nefarious? Absolutely.

But to play devil's advocate here, nearly all modern cranes are equipped with communication devices that send diagnostics and parameters back to the manufacturer. That way, if something ever goes south, the manufacturer can look at the crane configuration at the time of the incident to determine who/what was at fault.

17 posted on 03/07/2024 12:21:27 PM PST by Christopher
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And what did Mitch’s women, the Chao sisters, have to do with this?

They own a huge shipping business, one on the board of the Chinese Communist China State Shipbuilding Corporation, one Secretary of Transportation.


18 posted on 03/07/2024 12:27:42 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: CFW

During Portland riots, a chinese shipment of guns came in to the port of Portland. They swept it under the rug. I can just imagine how many chinese weapons, are being shipped into blue state ports. Our security is at risk. It’s only a matter of time before the SHTF. If they think Trump will be elected, they’ll call off the election by creating bedlam in the US. I am sure some of those running our govt. presently have a “plan B” again. They can’t use biowarfare again so soon, so it will probably start with a power grid attack and attacks on major cities. Fortunately, I am a sane Orygunian and live nowhere near any cities.
I know it soinds far out, but fter the Obama and Biden years, NOTHING would surprise me.


19 posted on 03/07/2024 12:35:12 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: Colt1851Navy

I’m sure the recent arrivals would love jobs as stevedores in our ports.

They would, but they will have to fulfill their PLA contracts on Chinese run US marijuana farms first.


20 posted on 03/07/2024 12:37:53 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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