The Looming Trade War With China « Great Speculations – Forbes.com

Posted by Matt in March 17th, 2010 | 1 comment

Published in Trade, Bottom Line, China, Corporations, Diplomatic Pressure, End Result, Forbes, Google, Governments, Lead, Recession, Speculations, Trade War, Ugly

The bottom line is that corporations are finding it much more difficult and costly to make a buck in China. Others may follow Google’s lead and leave the country entirely. Or, they may complain to their governments to apply diplomatic pressure. The end result could be an ugly trade war, which would hurt all parties [...]

2 Chinese Schools Said to Be Linked to Online Attacks – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in February 18th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, American Corporations, China, Chinese Military, Chinese People, Chinese Schools, Close Ties, Computers, Dozens, Educational Institutions, Google, Nytimes

A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation.
2 Chinese Schools Said to Be Linked to Online Attacks – NYTimes.com

Inside North Korea: the ultimate package tour | Travel | The Observer

Posted by Matt in February 13th, 2010 | no comment

Published in general, Beijing Travel, Earth North, Going To The Moon, Google, Jetliner, Korea Tour, Korea Tourism, Korea Travel, Koryo Tours, North-Korea, northkorea, Place On Earth, Republic Of Korea, Revelation, S Republic Of Korea, Strange Things, Tour Travel, Travel, Travel Firm

The strangest of all the very strange things about the strangest place on earth, North Korea, is that it’s surprisingly easy to go there. Or at least, not as hard as it somehow ought to be. I’d always thought that it was only marginally less difficult than going to the moon or, say, Eton, but [...]

China is aiming at America’s soft underbelly: the Internet – Yahoo! News

Posted by Matt in February 6th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, China, Chinese Dissidents, Cooperative Investigation, E Mail, Google, Intelligence Agencies, Internet News, Intrusion, Mail Exchanges, National Security Agency, News Agency, Nsa, Priority, Proprietary Networks, Soft Underbelly, Yahoo, Yahoo Google, Yahoo News

Google and the National Security Agency (NSA) are engaging in a cooperative investigation to determine who exactly from China was trolling through Google’s proprietary networks, including e-mail exchanges of Chinese dissidents. They are also joining together to develop new defenses against malicious intrusion and attacks on America’s cyberinfrastructure.
Though America’s cybervulnerability has long been a concern [...]

Tehran has developed an advanced nuclear warhead

Posted by Matt in February 6th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Iran, Nuclear, Atomic Energy Agency, Diameter, Diplomats, English German, Extent, Google, IAEA, International Atomic Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency, Medium Range Missile, Nuclear Warhead, Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, Older Models, Scientist, Soviet Nuclear Weapons, Sueddeutsche De, SüDdeutsche Zeitung, tehran, Vienna, Western Intelligence Agencies

Iran has developed according to information from the Süddeutsche Zeitung with the help of a scientist from a former Soviet nuclear weapons laboratory, the design for an advanced nuclear warhead.
[I used Google Translate to translate from the original German to English]
Western intelligence agencies and diplomats confirmed with information from a paper that the knowledge of [...]

Beijing Bones up its Cyber-Warfare Capacity – The Jamestown Foundation

Posted by Matt in February 4th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, American Government, beijing, Bilateral Ties, Censorship Internet, Censorship Of The Internet, Chinese Communist Party, Confrontation, Cyber Attacks, Cyber Warfare, Deterioration, Digital Warfare, Furor, Global Digital, Google, Jamestown, Jamestown Foundation, Multinationals, Prowess, Renminbi, Unprecedented Resources

While the furor over cyber attacks against Google has lapsed somewhat, the Sino-American confrontation over the larger issue of Internet security and global digital warfare is expected to intensify in the near future. This is particularly in light of the deterioration of bilateral ties due to issues ranging from the value of the renminbi to [...]

Tibet, Taiwan, Google sour U.S.-China ties – CNN.com

Posted by Matt in February 2nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, Alberta Government, China Beijing, China Ties, Cnn, Dots, Freedom In China, Google, Internet Freedom, Measures, Paranoia, Proof, Taiwan China, Tibet, University Of Alberta, Unrelated Events

Such seemingly unrelated events feed into China’s paranoia, analysts say. “Beijing will connect the dots of recent events,” said Jiang, the University of Alberta professor. “The U.S. government criticisms on Internet freedom in China and now the arms sale to Taiwan — [China] will use these events as proof that the Obama administration is now [...]

America awaits big challenge in China – NYPOST.com

Posted by Matt in January 26th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, beijing, China Government, Dangerous Storm, Decade, Flames, Google, Government Censorship, Hillary Clinton, Internet Freedom, Nypost, People, President Richard Nixon, Protest, Republic Of China, Richard Nixon, Secretary Of State, Storm Is Brewing, Taiwan China, Worries

A dangerous storm is brewing over the Pacific, as America and the People’s Republic of China enter what may be their tensest decade since President Richard Nixon’s visit to Beijing in 1972.
The latest flash is the running fight over Internet freedom, with Google this month withdrawing from China in protest against government censorship. Secretary of [...]

Why America and China will clash | FT.com

Posted by Matt in January 18th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, American Policymakers, Assumptions, Censorship, China Government, Economic Power, Emergence, Fate, Gideon, Google, Harbinger, Political Liberalisation, Rachman, Reason, Tiananmen Massacre

Google’s clash with China is about much more than the fate of a single, powerful firm. The company’s decision to pull out of China, unless the government there changes its policies on censorship, is a harbinger of increasingly stormy relations between the US and China.
The reason that the Google case is so significant is because [...]

Chinese hackers pose a growing threat to U.S. firms – latimes.com

Posted by Matt in January 14th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, Asian Superpower, China, Chinese Hackers, Cyber Attacks, Espionage Efforts, Google, Google Inc, Industrial Espionage, Internet Hackers, Latimes, National Security Concerns, S Corporations, Sophistication

The scale and sophistication of the cyber attacks on Google Inc. and other large U.S. corporations by hackers in China is raising national security concerns that the Asian superpower is escalating its industrial espionage efforts on the Internet.
Chinese hackers pose a growing threat to U.S. firms – latimes.com