The Chinese Communist Party has been developing hypersonic missile technology in recent years, but this relies on U.S. supercomputer technology. How did the Chinese Communist Party avoid U.S. sanctions to obtain this technology?
The Chinese Communist Party is taking advantage of the invasion of people’s privacy to develop AI technology to counteract the United States, but the United States still has three major advantages and will be fully ready by 2025. Recently, the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Public Security forced the cell phone app, and all people were monitored and bugged.
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China’s hypersonic missile drills U.S. loophole, gets key chip
The Chinese Communist Party’s hypersonic missile technology depends on the use of supercomputers, the core chips of which are obtained through a Taiwanese company that exploits loopholes in U.S. technology controls.
The Washington Post reported at length on Wednesday (March 7) how Chinese supercomputer company Tianjin Feiteng Information Technology Co. obtained key chips from the United States to provide supercomputers for the development of the Chinese military’s most advanced weapons.
The following day, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced Thursday (8) that it had blacklisted seven Chinese supercomputer entities, including Tianjin Feiteng, for assisting the Chinese Communist Party’s military and destabilizing operations.
While this move could slow down the CCP’s development of supersonic missile technology to some extent, it remains to be seen whether it will completely block the CCP from continuing to acquire key supercomputer chip technology from the United States through existing channels.
So how does the CCP obtain core chips through frontier companies?
Tai-Ming Chang, director of the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California, San Diego, describes the Chinese Aerodynamics Research and Development Center as the beating heart of the CCP’s hypersonic research and development.
The center has been on a U.S. trade blacklist since 1999 for helping with “missile proliferation. By 2016, the U.S. Department of Commerce had further tightened restrictions on the center’s export technology.
Iain Boyd, director of the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado at Boulder, described the hundreds of different thermal, vehicle lift and atmospheric drag settings that would need to be analyzed to make a hypersonic missile work, which would be too expensive and time-consuming just to go through physical testing.
“If you don’t have supercomputers, it could take a decade,” he said.
Researchers at the China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center mentioned their supercomputer using Feiteng’s 1500 and 2000 series chips in papers published in 2018 and 2019, according to publicly available paper materials.
The center is currently developing the Tianhe 3 supercomputer – capable of handling 100 trillion calculations per second at “hyperscale” speeds – with Feiteng, the National University of Defense Technology and the Tianjin Supercomputing Center. According to Chinese state media, the computer uses Feiteng’s 2000 series chips.
Although Feiteng claims to be China’s leading independent core chip supplier, it sells server and video game microprocessors for which its shareholders and major customers are Communist government departments and the military, according to government records.
Eric Lee, a research associate at the Project 2049 Institute, a Northern Virginia think tank that studies Indo-Pacific strategy, told WaPo that Feiteng acts at first glance like an independent commercial company “with executives in civilian clothes, but most of them are former military officers from the National University of Defense Technology.”
Stewart Randall, a consultant who sells electronic design automation software to top Chinese chipmakers, told WaPo, “In 10 years in China, I haven’t met a Chinese chip design company that doesn’t use Synopsys or Cadence services. “
Such trade practices, while not theoretically illegal, do exploit a loophole in an important part of the global high-tech supply chain – since the same computer chips can be used in both commercial data centers and to power military supercomputers – and are difficult to regulated by the host country.
In addition, the U.S. high-tech company’s cooperation with China’s Frontier and the CCP’s military research institute reaffirms the CCP’s “civil-military” strategy – how the CCP uses Frontier to buy U.S. technology, circumvent censorship, and quietly use civilian technology for military strategic purposes.
All of the chips in the Feiteng supercomputer used in Mianyang’s hypersonic weapons experiments are produced by Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing company TSMC. It is the largest of several Taiwanese chipmakers, and the chips it makes are also used for both civilian and military purposes.
China’s Ministry of Public Security forced cell phone app, all people are monitored and bugged
Recently, the Chinese authorities forced people to download a “National Anti-Fraud Center” cell phone software. Many netizens complained that they were forced to install the software by brutal means, and that police intercepted passersby to force them to download the software, and that they might be transferred to police stations if they did not download the software.
Figure: early April 2021, Shenzhen, a village entrance, first download the “anti-fraud” software to enter.
More netizens exposed the chaos of the mandatory installation of software, such as not downloading the office building, not allowed to go to work, not allowed to go to school; not downloading not allowed to enter the government departments for various businesses, can not stay in hotels, can not take the subway and other public transport, can not enter the community; schools require parents to download, and so on.
Figure: Notice of mandatory installation of “anti-fraud” software.
It is reported that this “National Anti-Fraud Center” cell phone software is developed by the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China, and it has been mandatory for people to download and install it since the end of March.
The app requires up to 29 permissions for microphone, camera, phone, SMS, etc.
According to land media reports, this software can provide advance warning of fraudulent behavior, when the phone installed this software receives phone calls and text messages, the software can automatically analyze and advance warning. The software can also detect all the applications on the phone, have online submission of clues involved in the case, report suspicious telecommunications and other functions.
Netizens on the web figure: “anti-fraud” software permissions.
Some people are worried about their privacy leaks, consider buying a cell phone specifically to install this software. But according to the knowledge, “it is useless. Because there is no way to control whether this software has been installed on the phones of other Chinese people, so no matter how careful you are, if you meet any Chinese people in the future, if the phone is installed with this software, then it will be automatically recorded, video, automatically uploaded, remote control.”
It is understood that as of April 9, a total of 433 people in the Apple app store message “forced to install”. Many people feedback that this software is “junk App”, “simply can not receive the verification code, but also forced to download, disgusting!” “Forced to download by the unit, but also to promote to relatives, children’s kindergarten also asked to ‘pull the head’, disgusting!”
Figure: partial screenshot of user comments on the software
Netizens revealed that “after installation, there are multiple Hong Kong phone calls recently, if you answer, the Public Security Bureau will call to remind you that it is a fraud.”
A netizen said, “public power can require you to install a certain App today, tomorrow you can be required to read ** quotes every day, the day after tomorrow you must report everything …… step by step, private rights will be trampled on erosion in pieces, intact, we will no longer be an individual with independent personality The “I’m not going to be able to get a good deal on this.”
Some users also issued a warning, “Uninstall. And stay away from those around you who have installed it.”
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