Posted on 03/08/2024 10:35:03 AM PST by bitt
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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Buttplug approves
STOP BUYING STUFF FROM CHINA!
Problem solved......................
Did you all think the CHicoms gave Biden all that money because they liked him??
Every modern jet engine reports various operating coditions,including its location, every few seconds without the supervision or even the knowledge, for the most part, of the pilots I would ASSUME this is NOT true for military jets..
What other large expensive hi-tek machines have comm systems to “call home” now and then”? Railroad engines? Trucks moving military or nuclear materials?
How deep does this go?
I wouldn't.
Anything that could go wrong is about to go wrong.
I fear you are correct.
Just take them off
https://www.maritime.dot.gov/ports/ports
Elaine Chao, whose “uncle,” according to her, was Jiang Zemin, was Secretary of Transportation.
She owns a huge shipping corporation that partners with Chinese Communists.
Her late sister sat on boards of Chicom state shipping conglomerates.
Here’s an article about cranes in Egypt and the company that builds and installs and maintains the, China Shipbuilding Wuhan Ship Machinery Haixi Heavy Machinery Co..
https://www.seetao.com/details/174833.html
It’s owned by China State Shipbuilding Corporation.
“ Founded in 1958 and affiliated with China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), Wuhan Marine Machinery Plant Co., Ltd. (WMMP) has more than 3400 employees ...”
http://en.wmmp.com.cn/list/1.html
China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), through subsidiary Wuhan Ship Machinery Haixi Heavy
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/tag/wuhan-ship-machinery-haixi-heavy-machinery/
Mitch McConnell’s sister in law, Angela Chao, was on the Board of this Chinese Communist company. Her sister, McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao was Secretary of Transportation, which runs the Maritime Administration, overseeing ports.
https://www.maritime.dot.gov/ports/ports
And, oh yeah, Angela Chao just ended up dead on Chinese New Year. Somehow her Tesla backed into a pond on a ranch in Texas.
Criminal investigation is ongoing.
Our government and others are totally aware of this.
Chicoms need those to xfer coms from all the balloons flying over the U.S. on surveillance missions...
Some of them are probably important in coordinating, with both Beijing and the WH, the current invasion of thousands of chicom military personnel across the southern border...
Maybe THIS is why chao was found in a lake…
You left off that she’s married to Mitch McConnell. The Chinese own lots of people in DC. That’s the problem with electing people who are for sale.
bttt
Look at my next post, post 12.
Yes they are Mitch’s bi—- er, women.
It’s pretty bad, isn’t it?
See my posts 11 and 12.
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