Generational Dynamics World View

[John J. Xenakis]

** 18-Jan-2020 World View: China's military and Huawei

Web Site Reader Wrote:> In China, everybody I met, including university professors who
> taught how to research and engineer missiles components, down to
> the students on the campuses, all knew that Huawei was a company
> run by the PLA. I find Huawei's comments about separation
> comical. Huawei is playing on how separate Boeing is from the
> Pentagon in American thinking. What is worse, Americans and
> Europeans are buying it. Fools!

I've been writing about undetectable backdoors in Huawei's routers
since 2012. These backdoors give China's military remote access to
and control of the routers, which means that China's military can
control large parts of the internet in many countries, at a time of
their choosing.

** 14-Oct-12 World View -- Huawei scandal exposes potential 'Cyberwar Pearl Harbor' from China
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e121014


** 30-Jun-19 World View -- MIT criticizes 'toxic atmosphere' targeting Chinese students
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e190630


** 27-Jan-19 World View -- George Soros speech at Davos marks significant global shift against China
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e190127


It's so easy technically to install these backdoors, that it's
depressing how easily the Chinese have been getting away with it. And
if there was ever any real doubt, there was no possible doubt left
after China blantantly passed its National Intelligence Law in 2017,
which essentially required Huawei to install these backdoors. Even
so, in online comments and in the Generational Dynamics forum I've
gotten all kinds of flak from people telling me that the whole idea is
fantastical. It's amazing how much the Chinese get away with. In
this case, China's military subsidizes the Huawei devices, so that
they're far cheaper than devices manufactured in America or elsewhere.

I remember in 2012, the president of Huawei America said that he's
been assured by top management that there were no backdoors in Huawei
products. That's really laughable. Even if he's telling the truth,
how would he even do.

And the most laughable thing was last year sending out Huawei founder
and CEO Ren Zhengfei on a worldwide press tour to assure everyone that
there that there were no backdoors, and that he wouldn't ever allow
backdoors to be installed, and he would personally go to jail, rather
than allow China's military to install backdoors. Are you kidding me?
This was a former PLA commander. And, once again, if China's military
had infiltrated Huawei and was requiring some development group to
install backdoors, how would Ren Zhengfei even know?

This last example shows particularly how contemptuous the Chinese are
of Americans to think we would believe these idiotic claims by Ren
Zhengfei, and also shows how stupid Westerners are for proving that
the Chinese are right.

Web Site Reader Wrote:> Second, every credit card in China, including what few Visa and
> MasterCards that exist, all have a six-digit pin that must be used
> for *every *transaction. My wife can use her Chinese MasterCard
> in the States, but nobody from America can use American credit
> cards in China.

> I tried to get my Visa cards and MasterCards attached with a PIN
> here in America. The American companies will only give you a
> four-number PIN for cash withdrawals; they will never put
> six-digit pins on American cards. Foolish, I think. I'd rather
> have the security and confidence of using a PIN on every
> transaction than to have to pay a minimum 16% interest rate on
> card debt (which I have none). American companies would rather
> stick those who pay their debt with higher fees rather than
> inconvenience them with greater security.

> In other words, American companies will still have to change their
> ways to enter the Chinese market.

Interesting comparison about the PINs.