Category: chinese tech risks

China Is Both Supplier and Saboteur of America’s Electric Grid, Experts Say

May 24, 2023
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Simultaneous with efforts by the Biden administration to “green” America’s energy infrastructure, Chinese companies have become key suppliers of hardware to the U.S. electric grid that analysts fear could give China the ability to crash the grid if hostilities were ever to escalate. Americans have become so used to an uninterrupted supply of electricity that…

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State Governments ‘Weakest Link’ in Protecting America From ‘Enemy’ Cyberattacks

January 14, 2023
2023 state legislative sessionsChinachinese tech risksDefending AmericaFeatured TopicsFederal-State RelationsFinance & Business TiesHuaweiNational SecurityPolicies & ImpactsPoliticsRegional NewsRegional-Local NewsSpecial TopicsState-Federal Tech Threat DisconnectTechTech CompetitiontechnologyThreat from Communist ChinaUSUS NewsUS-China relations
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United States federal agencies and the Pentagon over the last decade have imposed a matrix of restrictions on purchasing technology from companies owned or influenced by China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but few of the nation’s 50 states have taken similar precautions. In fact, many state governments apparently aren’t aware—or haven’t publicly acknowledged—how potentially…

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