How China Is Buying Its Way into Europe For more than a decade, Chinese political and corporate leaders have been scouring the globe with seemingly bottomless walletsin hand. From Asia to Africa, the U.S. and Latin America, the results are hard to ignore as China has asserted itself as an emerging world power. Less well known is China’s diffuse but expanding footprint in… Read More
Iran hit by global cyber attack that left U.S. flag on screens The statement said the attack, which hit internet service providers and cut off web access for subscribers, was made possible by a vulnerability in routers from Cisco which had earlier issued a warning and provided a patch that some firms had failed to install over the Iranian new year holiday. Source: reuters… Read More
China Slaps Tariffs on U.S. Products The Chinese Ministry of Commerce indicated that the tariffs, which it first publicly suggested almost two weeks ago, were intended to pressure the Trump administration to back down from a simmering trade war. In addition to imposing additional tariffs on steel and aluminum from China and other countries, President Trump has threatened to put protective… Read More
Asian Powers Step Up Their Readiness For Space Warfare, Following America’s Lead In its “active defense” military strategy, China was very clear about the importance of outer space, identifying it as a critical security domain, along with the oceans, cyberspace, and nuclear force. Outer space was also singled out as a command post along with cyberspace. In Japan, as the country began to orient its national space… Read More
How On Earth Did Russia Hack Our Energy Systems? The traps themselves are pretty imaginative. Many are based in social media. No one would suspect a cute kitten video of hiding malware. But they do. And if your co-worker is a kitten-nut, they may not hesitate to download that video without thinking that it is a trap. Source: forbes… Read More
Hansen: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, and then he lost his dream job Roy Jones says he got no training on how to handle issues that might inflame the Chinese government. “My job isn’t to decide whether Tibet is a country. I’m a customer care rep in Omaha, Nebraska,” he said. Source: omaha… Read More
There’s a New Cold War Brewing in Space Much of the push to formalize an off-planetbranch of the U.S. armed forces is motivated by space investment by Russia and China, the latter of which is eager to establish itself as a superpower with plans for an orbiting space station and a permanent outpost on the moon. Meanwhile, Russiaunder President Vladimir Putinhas become increasingly… Read More
Best Buy will stop selling Huawei smartphones Huawei was widely expected to announce a partnership with AT&T in January at CES to carry the Mate 10 Pro smartphone, but the carrier reportedly backed out because of political pressure. A few days later, Verizon reportedly nixed its own plans to sell Huawei phones. Instead, Richard Yu, CEO of the company’s consumer business, spent… Read More
Best bad idea ever? Why Putin’s nuclear-powered missile is possible… and awful Russia’s advanced arms are based onthecutting-edge, unique achievements ofour scientists, designers, andengineers. One ofthem is asmall-scale, heavy-duty nuclear energy unit that can be installed inamissile like our latest X-101 air-launched missile ortheAmerican Tomahawk missile—asimilar type but with arange dozens oftimes longer, dozens—basically anunlimited range. It is alow-flying stealth missile carrying anuclear warhead, with almost anunlimited… Read More
Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped U.S. Colleges Chinese companies are taking advantage of America’s financially strapped higher-education system to buy schools, and the latest deal for a classical music conservatory in Princeton, New Jersey, is striking chords of dissonance on campus. Source: bloomberg… Read More