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‘Worrisome’ Devices Discovered on Chinese-Made Cranes in Use in US: Report
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 3/8/2024 | jack davis

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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KEYWORDS: china; chinesemade; cocainemitch; cranes; devices; redchina; seaports; zpmc
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1 posted on 03/08/2024 10:35:03 AM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 03/08/2024 10:35:17 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Buttplug approves


3 posted on 03/08/2024 10:35:48 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: bitt

STOP BUYING STUFF FROM CHINA!

Problem solved......................


4 posted on 03/08/2024 10:38:56 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: bitt

Did you all think the CHicoms gave Biden all that money because they liked him??


5 posted on 03/08/2024 10:43:18 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: bitt

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?


6 posted on 03/08/2024 10:44:07 AM PST by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: William of Barsoom
...I would ASSUME this is NOT true for military jets.."

I wouldn't.

7 posted on 03/08/2024 10:45:38 AM PST by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: bitt

Anything that could go wrong is about to go wrong.


8 posted on 03/08/2024 10:48:43 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Huskrrrr

I fear you are correct.


9 posted on 03/08/2024 10:53:44 AM PST by BipolarBob (If you bring up my past, you should know that Jesus dropped all of the charges.)
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To: Red Badger

Just take them off


10 posted on 03/08/2024 10:58:49 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: bitt

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.


11 posted on 03/08/2024 10:59:32 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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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.


12 posted on 03/08/2024 11:15:02 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: bitt
Most of the current 5G cell tower equipment is made in China by a company tied to China’s military.

Our government and others are totally aware of this.

13 posted on 03/08/2024 11:19:52 AM PST by Newbomb Turk
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To: bitt

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...


14 posted on 03/08/2024 11:29:59 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: bitt

Maybe THIS is why chao was found in a lake…


15 posted on 03/08/2024 11:31:57 AM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: ifinnegan

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.


16 posted on 03/08/2024 11:33:39 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: bitt

bttt


17 posted on 03/08/2024 11:43:13 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: pepsi_junkie

Look at my next post, post 12.

Yes they are Mitch’s bi—- er, women.


18 posted on 03/08/2024 11:51:59 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: pepsi_junkie

It’s pretty bad, isn’t it?


19 posted on 03/08/2024 11:53:13 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Captainpaintball

See my posts 11 and 12.


20 posted on 03/08/2024 12:32:31 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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