Canadian Judge Rejects New Request in Meng’s Extradition Case
A Canadian judge has denied huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou’s request to add testimonial evidence in her U.S. extradition case, according to a ruling released March 12, Reuters reported.
The ruling also showed that the judge tentatively granted a request from Meng’s litigation team to add portions of an expert report into evidence, subject to further submissions on its relevance.
Where is the bottom line on Chinese Communist hacking even more than Russia’s U.S.? Experts call on White House to respond
EU Vaccine Passport Excludes Communist China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden holds a videoconference with the heads of Australia, India and Japan at the White House on March 12, 2021.
The leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia held their first videoconference summit on Friday (March 12) and agreed on a vaccine plan for the Chinese Communist virus (COVID-19), allegedly aimed at countering Chinese Communist vaccine diplomacy. AFP and other media quoted EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ylva Johansson as saying on Friday (March 12) that the EU is working on a “green passport” against the Chinese Communist virus, which is expected to be officially launched next Wednesday.
Johansson said the electronic document would show the holder’s negative nucleic acid test results for the virus, the presence of antibodies, and whether he or she has received a vaccine approved by the European Medicines Agency, among other information.
The report noted that Russia’s Satellite V vaccine and the Chinese Communist Party‘s State Medicine vaccine do not hold a license from the European Medicines Agency for the Time being. This also means that the “green passport” will exclude Russian and Chinese vaccines.
So far, the European Medicines Agency has approved only four Chinese virus vaccines, namely Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, which was just approved this week.
Where does the U.S. draw the line when it comes to Chinese hacking that is even worse than Russia’s? Experts call on White House to respond
The recent attack on Microsoft’s email server by Chinese Hackers was much larger than the Russian attack a few months ago.
Voice of America reported on March 13 that Microsoft announced on March 2 that Hafnium, a hacking group supported by the Chinese Communist government operating outside of China, had used software program vulnerabilities to carry out multiple attacks on Microsoft’s email server and remotely control the server to steal data from the victim’s computer system.
This is the second major global Cyber Attack in a few months. The last time was last December, when a Russian attack on a SolarWinds server damaged nine U.S. federal agencies and hundreds of companies.
This time, U.S. officials said, Chinese hackers breached about 30,000 servers in the United States and about 250,000 worldwide. Wired (https://www.wired.com/magazine/) quoted a security official involved in the investigation as saying that the scale of the global hack was “astronomical.
Dakota Cary, a research analyst at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technologies, said the Biden Administration believes that the indiscriminate attacks by Russian hackers have “crossed the line” and that the scale of the Chinese hacking is far greater than the former, even making it appear that the Russian attacks were “a measured espionage operation. A measured espionage operation.
“So the question for the Biden administration is, where do we draw the line?” “That’s a question they have to answer for themselves.”
The U.S. does not lack the means to respond, such as the U.S. government’s “Know Your Customer” rule in the financial sector (purchasers must show some form of identification to providers), which allows Chinese and Russian hackers who use U.S. servers in the U.S. to attack to eliminate the options available to them. Russian hackers want to exploit the option no longer exists.
Kenneth E. deGraffenreid, retired professor of intelligence and counterintelligence at the Institute of World Politics, has worked on intelligence and counterintelligence-related issues for more than 40 years and believes that the U.S. response to the Chinese Communist Party’s intelligence and counterintelligence threats has been driven on a case-by-case basis and lacks a holistic strategic perspective. DeGraffenreid said the CCP’s intelligence activities “are a fundamental challenge” to the United States. If the U.S. doesn’t understand it at this level, then “it’s very difficult to do anything other than respond in a piecemeal fashion.”
In addition, a study of six Chinese universities published this week by the aforementioned Ray Carey shows that a key aspect of Xi’s “civil-military integration strategy” is to use Chinese university research institutions to help improve the functionality of China’s cyber-hacking activities. “Civil-military integration is a powerful strategy available only to totalitarian governments, and the risk to the United States can be as broad as any aspect of the threat, and anything we have on the Internet is essentially within the threat of such behavior.”
Apollo.com commentator Wang Duyan said cyberwarfare is part of the Chinese Communist Party’s hyper-limited warfare, and the U.S. should actively counter it. But it is unrealistic to expect the Biden regime to do anything, but pressure must be brought to bear on the regime to defend the United States.
Wang Yi sings red face, Li Keqiang sings white face ahead of U.S.-China dialogue
After Biden took power, the U.S. side announced on March 10 that senior U.S. and Chinese officials would meet next week. Later, Li Keqiang softened his tone when he spoke about U.S.-China relations at a press conference at the Communist Party’s two sessions, calling for “the establishment of a multi-disciplinary and multi-level dialogue mechanism.
According to Li Linyi, a current affairs commentator for the Epoch Times, this is a clear indication of what the Chinese Communist Party’s top brass is expecting from this meeting, which came out of Li Keqiang’s mouth at the “two sessions. Li Keqiang does not have much say in U.S.-China relations or foreign affairs. And when you look at recent Chinese diplomatic officials, none of them have made similar statements. So, it is likely that this is what Xi and the CPC Central Committee meant. Of course, whether the CCP will get what it wants is another question.
Compared to previous tough statements by CPC State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on U.S.-China relations, Li Keqiang spoke in a softer tone.
On March 7, at a video press conference held at a meeting of the National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China, Wang Yi responded to the issue of China-US relations by saying, “For a long time, the United States has been recklessly interfering in the internal affairs of other countries at every turn under the banner of so-called democracy and human rights, creating a lot of trouble in the world and even becoming a source of unrest and war …… “”I hope the U.S. side and the Chinese side will move in the same direction and lift as soon as possible all kinds of unreasonable restrictions set so far on U.S.-China cooperation ……”
Li Linyi believes that Li Keqiang is actually singing the “white face” of the “red and white faces” this time, so he is soft on the US. The Chinese Communist Party is implementing delaying tactics, but secretly it has no intention to reduce confrontation with the United States. The Chinese Communist Party expects that during the four years of the Biden administration, there will be at least no violent conflict with the United States. At the same time, the Chinese Communist Party hopes to gain the opportunity to develop science and technology, and gradually get rid of the dependence on the United States.
McCarthy: Proposed to expel lawmakers involved in Chinese Communist spying case from intelligence committee
On Friday, March 12, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced on Twitter that he will introduce a bill next week to expel Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) from the Intelligence Committee for posing a threat to U.S. national security in connection with the Chinese Communist spy case.
Earlier the same day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi re-elected the California congressman, who is embroiled in a spygate scandal, to the Intelligence Committee, Voice of Hope Radio reported.
McCarthy wrote in a tweet, “Based on the briefing we received together, Swalwell should not be on this committee that serves to protect our nation’s secrets. Next week I will introduce a resolution to get him off that committee.”
McCarthy’s spokesman said McCarthy will submit the resolution as early as next Tuesday (March 16), after which the House will vote on it and whether to force Swalwell to leave the House committee.
But Pelosi said on March 12 that she was not worried about Swalwell staying on the intelligence committee.
Swalwell has been a critic of Trump, and he was actively involved in the Democrats’ second impeachment of Trump.
U.S. Democrats actively promote major infrastructure, funding sources become a big problem
Photo shows the House chamber.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday (March 12) that she has given instructions to key Democratic lawmakers to work with Republican lawmakers to jointly pursue a major infrastructure plan. Pelosi’s aides explained that the plan is a top priority for the Democrats at this time.
The Biden administration had also said that after passing the bailout plan, the next step would be to push Congress to approve trillions of dollars in infrastructure projects as part of the stimulus package.
But many U.S. political commentators wonder where the money will come from to drive major infrastructure investments.
It is true that the U.S. can continue to issue debt to raise funds, but through the current round of $1.9 trillion plan, the U.S. government’s debt ratio is close to 140%, the U.S. Treasury yields have climbed sharply in recent weeks, the 10-year debt interest rate rose to 1.642% on Friday, a one-year high, when the Treasury yield in the stimulus of Inflation, after rising to more than 3% level, the U.S. government will have difficulty paying The interest bill is rolling in.
In addition, after Biden came to power, he rekindled the powder keg in the Middle East and banned the development of shale oil on U.S. soil, leading to a rapid rise in oil prices; Biden is also prepared to continue to promote globalization (i.e., the U.S. continues to expand imports), the U.S. trade deficit will continue to expand, the fiscal deficit worsens, and the government debt rate will enter a spiral that will seriously worsen U.S. inflation, plus the credit level of the U.S. dollar is already far below After the subprime crisis, these measures will stimulate the level of inflation in the United States itself and globally.
Market participants believe that as global central banks have joined forces to create the most perfect asset bubble in history following the subprime crisis, there must be a perfect storm and avalanche ahead.
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