US Ports Full of This 'Trojan Horse' From China
Townhall,
by
Spencer Brown
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
3/6/2023 4:01:49 PM
As Americans' awareness of threats from China increases — thanks to a spy balloon in our skies and a growing understanding of TikTok's influence — the U.S. officials are ringing the alarm about another potential avenue for malign interference in the United States from Beijing: cranes. (Snip)
Some of these cranes are innocuous, but an estimated 80 percent of ship-to-shore cranes operating at U.S. ports are made by ZPMC, a China-based manufacturer, leading to rising concern among American defense and national security personnel that have compared the cranes to a "Trojan horse," according to an exclusive report in The Wall Street Journal.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 3/6/2023 4:05:35 PM (No. 1418785)
So what will Joe Jin Xi Ping do about it? Noooootttthhhiiinnnggg...
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No doubt these cranes are the legacy of thinking opening up China to international commerce and monetary funds would lead to a liberalization of their society. How'd that work out, by the way?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 3/6/2023 4:13:22 PM (No. 1418791)
Which biden cabinet nit-wit is in charge of the blundering alphabet agency to prevent, investigate & mitigate this newest fiasco?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Krause 3/6/2023 4:25:35 PM (No. 1418800)
Joe and Pete will handle this. Hahaha
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/6/2023 4:30:47 PM (No. 1418807)
Seems to me that we’d have cyber people who’d know how to block thr malign technology in these cranes
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Californian 3/6/2023 4:46:36 PM (No. 1418819)
5, I was thinking that too, until it got to the part where some of these cranes are operated by contracted Chinese nationals. That's the real threat, not hacked cranes.
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Breitbart had some great articles about Chinese control of a number of our ports maybe 15 years or so ago. They run the ports under their authorization, and the Feds seem to be fine with this. Meanwhile, who knows what they are bringing into our country via the ports they control?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 3/6/2023 9:41:11 PM (No. 1418981)
Philly bought them
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Encore 3/6/2023 11:16:41 PM (No. 1419005)
Bottom line...if you know about it, fix it. Deconstruct one, figure it out and clean them up. Any Chinese nationals working on American docks can go out with the next shipment.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chumley 3/7/2023 2:36:22 AM (No. 1419045)
Oh so what? It doesn't even begin to compare to the damage being done daily by our own government spying on us. Got a cell phone? They know where you are and can know what you're saying. Got a modern car with an emergency button? Same is true. Got a camera in your computer? They can access that too. Alexa or Siri? You've bugged your own house. Like to look at girlie pictures on the net? They already know it.
The Chinese wont be arresting us and holding us without bail or charges indefinitely. The US government will. Worry about them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rinktum 3/7/2023 6:05:26 AM (No. 1419096)
#1, Absolutely correct. Joe is not going to bite the hand that feeds him. I just do not understand why American companies continue to coddle and support this vile enemy. Where is their common sense? ,any in Corporate America, our government, and this wretched administration have sold us out to foreign regimes that hate us. Their only loyalty is to money and it doesn’t matter how it is made or by whom as long as the cash ends up in their greedy little pockets.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
privateer 3/7/2023 6:56:40 AM (No. 1419124)
Some emotional, moronic but dangerous do-gooders thought they would try to make China be more like the USA. Instead---and I wonder if it was deliberate---they barrelled headlong into making the USA more like China. But hey! They all got filthy rich doing it, so it's all good...for them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JrSample 3/7/2023 7:27:27 AM (No. 1419144)
Why do they need espionage cranes when they have Jiao Bideng and Humper Bideng on their payroll?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/7/2023 8:06:36 AM (No. 1419169)
A real president would have stopped all ships and planes from China by now and boarded the human trafficking and Fentanyl vessels before they reached shore. Unfortunately, we don't have one of those.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
czechlist 3/7/2023 8:12:28 AM (No. 1419175)
Been happening since slick willy crawled into bed with the ChiComs in the '90s.
Funny thing Clinton was selling access to US ports without resistance but when the UAE tried to get access to Dubai ports when W was in office the dims and their media were apoplectic.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/7/2023 8:56:19 AM (No. 1419224)
Military ships everything under other names and ambiguous content. Problem solved.
Sorry, not seeing much of a problem here. This seems manufactured.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JackBurton 3/7/2023 9:00:57 AM (No. 1419231)
Sounds like we should get a copy of the software and analyze it for back doors or malicious code.
But really, a broker tells me the ports and container shipments are running at 25%. (psst.... recession). If there IS a war, I doubt we'll be importing much.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
msjena 3/7/2023 9:09:44 AM (No. 1419243)
I try to avoid buying anything made in China. It isn't easy. But more and more, I am seeing things made in India, Eastern Europe or even Mexico. Our dependence on China has to stop.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Zigrid 3/7/2023 10:29:35 AM (No. 1419311)
China has infiltrated our defense systems...thanks to Washington's compromised house of congress over many years...it's time for all items WE use and rely on must be built in America...and if the congress cannot help to secure our freedom then it's time to replace all members of congress with American loving citizens...President Trump is right...it must be made in America...period.....
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Trapper 3/7/2023 10:47:48 AM (No. 1419328)
We never learn. Consolidation is, over and over, proven to be a BAD thing. For one, it crowds out competition and limits availability. For another, it sets up single events to be catastrophes.
Gather all the know world's learning and literature in a single library. A good thing, right? What could possibly go wrong? Then the LIbray at Alexandria caught fire and it all burned up. Lost forever. Oops.
Consolidate all you suppliers into a single supplier for ease of ordering and maintenance. What could possibly go wrong? Duh ... China. Oops.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 3/7/2023 1:42:29 PM (No. 1419555)
That's OK;
Our entire government is staffed with Chinese Trojan Horses and bought & paid for elected operatives. A few cranes don't much matter compared to that. Its not like most of what they move didn't come from China in the first place.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
HRJUNIOR 3/7/2023 1:56:41 PM (No. 1419571)
That Chinese "emperor" and Joe are about to discover just how short life is on this planet when they try to mess with GOD!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
rberlin 3/7/2023 2:17:10 PM (No. 1419589)
Yet another possible way for the Chinese to control commerce. Value is the determining factor. Will you pay a bloated price for union labor manufactured goods or will you pay much less for a product that does the job but is manufactured in a communist nation? Your wallet will always have the last say despite your desire to buy American. That value or lack thereof is reflected in the condition of our economy.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Fat Elvis 3/7/2023 2:47:40 PM (No. 1419600)
Many people warned about making China a favored trade partner, even actress Goldie Hawn, of all people.
We're starting to see the results of this folly.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
joew9 3/7/2023 3:56:20 PM (No. 1419657)
The only thing I want from China is fine dishware.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 3/7/2023 4:32:21 PM (No. 1419676)
We have the dumbest and/or most corrupt fascist bureaucrats on the planet. Probably both.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
nerdowell 3/7/2023 6:41:42 PM (No. 1419796)
Fortunately, we have the FBI to investigate and neutralize this threat to our soil.
Oh.
I forgot.
They're over-tasked with all their citizen-surveillance duties and don't have the budget.
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