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US SATELLITE MAY NOW BE CONTROLLED BY CHINA
The Daily Caller ^ | 5 Dec 2018 | Hanna Bogorowski

Posted on 12/05/2018 12:30:09 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze

Two Americans wanted to create a satellite in an effort to increase internet access in Africa, but their project is quickly and potentially dangerously turning over into the hands of the Chinese government.
Boeing agreed to build the satellite even after the founders of Global IP informed them it was being financed by the Chinese government through a web of shell companies and foreign transactions.
China appears to be ramping up efforts to usurp the technology, causing concern for U.S. officials.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boeing; chicoms; china; satellites; space
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As usual, Americans are willing to take a pile of cash to sell out Billions of dollars in US defense investments.
1 posted on 12/05/2018 12:30:09 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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Emil Youssefzadeh and Umar Javed, two “Americans” who founded the startup Global IP in 2008 with the goal of improving internet accessibility in Africa, realized they needed a lot of equity to get their project off the ground and the satellite into orbit.


2 posted on 12/05/2018 12:31:48 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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Too many Americans just want to sell their country to the Chinese, period.


3 posted on 12/05/2018 12:35:14 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.r)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Only one?


4 posted on 12/05/2018 12:41:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

I don’t see a big problem. Send up a more secure one and blow this one out of the sky.


5 posted on 12/05/2018 12:50:13 PM PST by SamuraiScot (am)
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THAT's a problem. Look up the Kessler syndrome.
6 posted on 12/05/2018 12:53:46 PM PST by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: Catmom

Too many Americans care about becoming wealthy more than they care for their country. Too many people are not Americans but parasites who take advantage of the country they don’t care for or even like.


7 posted on 12/05/2018 12:56:05 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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As usual, Americans are willing to take a pile of cash to sell out Billions of dollars in US defense investments.

I believe it was Lenin who said: The capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them with.

8 posted on 12/05/2018 1:08:12 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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” While there are several laws that forbid exporting satellite technology to China, Boeing Co. agreed to build the satellite for an American startup company even after the founders told the defense contractor that the Chinese government was financially backing the project, according to the report.”

Can the US gov. threaten Boeing with canceling all their contracts with them and never giving them another one, unless they stop this?

That would get their attention. Hit them where it hurts, in the pocketbook.


9 posted on 12/05/2018 1:12:54 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Shoot it down.


10 posted on 12/05/2018 1:18:39 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Agreed -

US Space Force target practice *


11 posted on 12/05/2018 1:22:51 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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[Too many Americans just want to sell their country to the Chinese, period.]

Well, ya know, selling America out to Mexico and basically South America keeps getting more difficult.


12 posted on 12/05/2018 1:23:21 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SpinnerWebb

You are right, if you want to destroy a satellite you need to do so in a way that keeps it intact. There are ways.


13 posted on 12/05/2018 1:25:08 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

How can we be so stupid?


14 posted on 12/05/2018 1:25:52 PM PST by Oldexpat (Jobs Not Mobs)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

How can we be so stupid?


15 posted on 12/05/2018 1:26:18 PM PST by Oldexpat (Jobs Not Mobs)
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[Two Americans wanted to create a satellite in an effort to increase internet access in Africa]

Are we sure this wasn’t the Clinton Foundation? Oh, that was Haiti....sorta.


16 posted on 12/05/2018 1:27:32 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: patriotfury

Send some Microsoft patches up to it. Problem solved.


17 posted on 12/05/2018 1:28:26 PM PST by Justa
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To: Justa

LOL - that would do it.

Girl: “I’ve been bad. And I need to be punished.”

Guy: “O.K.” he said. And then he installed Windows 10 on her laptop.


18 posted on 12/05/2018 1:30:03 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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“...with the goal of improving internet accessibility in Africa...”

Which goes along nicely with China’s plan for African “development”.


19 posted on 12/05/2018 1:46:36 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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“...with the goal of improving internet accessibility in Africa...”

Because the world needs more African scammers running estate scams, oil money transfer scams, dying rich relative scams, and defintely more beautiful white woman stuck in Africa and anxious to marry you scams.

20 posted on 12/05/2018 2:23:32 PM PST by DannyTN
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