Posted on 10/05/2018 2:18:48 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Vice President Mike Pence fired off a strong warning to China on Thursday, saying in a fiery speech, “We will not be intimidated, and we will not stand down.”
He criticized China on several fronts, portraying the country as the foremost threat to the U.S., its interests around the world and even its politics at home. He accused the growing Asian economic power of trying to undermine President Trump.
“As we speak, Beijing is employing a whole-of-government approach, using political, economic and military tools, as well as propaganda, to advance its influence and benefit its interests in the United States,” he said at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., adding that China was doing so in “more proactive ways than ever before.”
In particular, he went after China’s growing military and militarization of islands in the South China Sea, its trade practices and intellectual property theft, its increasing control of the Chinese public and crackdown on religious groups at home, its pressure campaign against political opposition or criticism in academia and entertainment and its political interference in the U.S. and around the world.
Most of all, he blamed this new campaign on Chinese opposition to Trump.
“President Trump’s leadership is working and China wants a different American president,” he said.
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Some people speculate that the national warning test was to test Chinese spy chips.
Confirmation:
Mystery disruption for cell networks after presidential alert text...
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/regions-cell-networks-disrupted-after-presidential-text-alert/
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Chinese spy chips are found in hardware used by Apple, Amazon, Bloomberg says; Apple, AWS say no way
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3693478/posts
‘The chips, which Bloomberg said have been the subject of a top secret U.S. government investigation starting in 2015, were used for gathering intellectual property and trade secrets from American companies and may have been introduced by a Chinese server company called Super Micro that assembled machines used in the centers.’ [snip]
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Wow! Fascinating.
I’m starting an electronic warfare ping if you would like to join it.
It might have days of multiple pings, but in the long run will be very, very LOW volume.
Low hassle once the dust settles.
We have a fleet massing off China’s coast. I believe this is related to it.
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antidisestablishment posted:
You do realize that chip engineering occurs at nano scale these days? And they’re 3-Dimensional structures? Hiding circuitry is not only possible, it has been occurring for years. They’re not building chips with soldering irons and magnifying glasses anymore. [snip]
Secondly, my wife and I did not get the alert when it was broadcasted. We have T-Mobile on Iphone 8+s with the latest IOS.
Hell, Red China has always been our enemy. That’s why the Clintons sold out to them.
The foremost threat to the US is the national debt and our huge continuing deficits.
The PRC is relatively trivial comparted to that.
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