The following excerpt, Chapter 2: A Floating Life, is from the novel The Shanghai Friendship Store by Susan Ruel. It chronicles the experiences of a small foreign community living in Shanghai in the 1980s (the heyday of Friendship Stores), shortly after the Cultural Revolution. These state-run Friendship Stores first appeared in China in the 1950s and initially ...
China has been ramping up its military might over the past years to secure its dominance in Asia, with a clear aim to remove the U.S. naval presence in the South China Sea. Recent reports suggest that Beijing is getting closer to challenging American naval power as it has been testing underwater nuclear capabilities of ...
China’s public surveillance network is one of the most expansive in the world, with the state monitoring its citizens’ movements, communication, and behavior. Unfortunately, several universities and companies in the U.S. are aiding the Chinese government in improving their surveillance and limiting people’s freedoms. According to media reports, American university researchers have written nine academic papers ...
A security research report has revealed that Chinese hacking groups targeted a minimum of 27 American universities, looking for U.S. military secrets. The report is authored by iDefense, the security research wing of Accenture. Stealing American secrets by hacking The hackers are said to use spear phishing to access files, meaning that they appear as ...
In a speech at the Hudson Institute, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton warned that China was building a new evil empire that could one day become a global world order. He had earlier spoken for strict actions against Chinese firms like Huawei and ZTE because of their connections with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Evil empire ...
On his first full day as the acting Defense Secretary of the United States, Patrick Shanahan declared to the military service chiefs and undersecretaries of defense that dealing with the Chinese threat would be his number one priority. The statement comes on the back of heightened aggression from Beijing, including President Xi asking the military ...
Chinese telecom company Huawei is currently under media scrutiny after its CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada on behalf of the U.S. administration. American intelligence agencies view the company with intense suspicion because of its connections with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its push to infiltrate the American market with not-so-benign intentions. Huawei ...
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