America's Future Update on China

Update on China's Cyber Warfare Capability

The Chinese Communists have been waging cyber warfare against America for years. Our Office of Personnel Management reports that a suspected Chinese hack attack obtained personal informa­tion on over 20 million Americans including fingerprints, financial history, and other personal data.

Our big response to this outra­geous cyberattack is that Obama will no longer stay at the Waldorf Astoria, the famous New York lux­ury hotel where all U.S. Presidents since Herbert Hoover have bunked. Since the Waldorf was bought last year by Chinese investors closely connected to the Chinese Com­munist Party and the People's Liberation Army, we must assume that the hotel has been thoroughly bugged so the Communists can listen to private conversations.

This cyber warfare capacity has enabled the Chinese to steal hundreds of billions of dollars of intellectual property from U.S. businesses. The Chinese have also increased their capacity to conduct massive attacks and consider this a primary tool in their drive to achieve world domination. Bill Gertz reports that China has redirected 20 to 30 percent more funding to cyber warfare than in previous years.

Update on China Flexing Its New Military Power

Two Chinese jet fighters buzzed a U.S. plane within only 500 feet in the sky just days before China's President Xi Jinping was received by Obama at the White House. Our military officials called this an "un­safe intercept" similar to another dangerous maneuver by a Chinese pilot in August of last year.

Five Chinese Navy ships were seen prowling the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska dur­ing Obama's three-day tour of that state. The convoy included three combat ships, a replenish­ment vessel, and an amphibious landing ship. The Chinese ships reportedly moved through U.S. territorial waters near the Aleu­tian Islands and into interna­tional waters between the U.S. and Russia.

Communist China is building and fortifying several island reefs in the South China Sea which could serve as "unsinkable aircraft carri­ers." Over 600 miles from the Chinese coast, these island reefs are the site of ex­tensive construction with military support. When American planes flew over for observation, they were warned away by the Chinese military.

China's military budget is increasing 10 percent this year.

Update on China's Violation of World Trade Rules

When U.S. firms seek to enter China and build manufacturing plants there, China requires them to share their intellectual prop­erty, tech­nology and know-how with Chi­nese state-owned en­terprises. The rules of the World Trade Organization prohibit such non-tariff barriers and preferences, but China simply ignores the rules of the WTO and we do nothing to stop it.

In the latest example of tech­nology transfer, U.S. tech giant Cisco, which builds America's most advanced computer rout­ers, has just agreed to invest $10 billion in partnership with a Chinese state-owned server company. "There are certain geopolitical dynamics that we have to navigate," Cisco's CEO sheepishly admitted - in other words, technology transfer is the price of doing business in China.

A new national security law requires American companies doing business in China to pledge that their information systems be "secure and controllable," which means building backdoors in software to allow government monitoring.