‘Worrisome’ Devices Discovered on Chinese-Made Cranes in Use in US: Report

thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 3/8/2024 | jack davis

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Amid rising concerns that Chinese-made giant cargo cranes found at U.S. ports could be a security concern are new reports that communications devices have been found within the mammoth cranes.

A report in the Wall Street Journal, citing congressional aides and documents, said cellular modems have been found that could be remotely accessed.

The finding is potentially serious, because ZPMC, a China-based manufacturer, has made about 80 percent of the cranes that unload ships at U.S. ports.

China “is looking for every opportunity to collect valuable intelligence and position themselves to exploit vulnerabilities by systematically burrowing into America’s critical infrastructure, including in the maritime sector,” Republican Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said.

“The United States has clearly overlooked this threat for far too long,” he said, adding that the communications components “are just one example of the worrisome findings in our investigation.”

Green elaborated in a statement to CNN, saying that the probe from his committee and the House Select Committee on China “found vulnerabilities in cranes at U.S. ports that could allow the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] to not only undercut trade competitors through espionage, but disrupt supply chains and the movement of cargo, devastating our nation’s economy.”

“Without a swift sea-change, we will continue to gift the CCP with an easy means of infiltrating our critical infrastructure on their quest for global dominance,” he said.

The Journal report said one U.S. port discovered more than a dozen cellular modems, while at another port a modem was in the port’s server room.

The report said that the port employees did not know why the modems were installed, because they were not requested.

Liu Pengyu, a spokesman at the Chinese embassy in Washington, called claims the modems could be a threat “entirely

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Imagine, during the late 1940's, early 1950's, that the U.S. was buying heavy industrial components from the Soviet Union.

Or selling land in the heartland to Soviet "investor's"...often near our military installations.

Or buying (at least) 13% of active pharmaceutical ingredients for all drugs from the Soviet Union.

Or allowing the Soviets to establish "police stations" in this country.

and on...and on...and on.

The greedy in power could have been checked, but the lazy citizens and the enemy within allowed this insanity to happen in plain sight.