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"The collective shrug around Salt Typhoon can also be seen across the news industry, where headlines about Salt Typhoon are making the rounds in the cybersecurity community, but generally aren’t splashed across front pages. In fairness, the news cycle at the moment is exhausting for reporters and readers alike — there’s a new administration forming, major global conflicts rage on and people are looking to take a break from it all over the holidays. Worrying about a massive and likely devastating global hack does not feel very merry.

And many details about the hack — when it happened, who was impacted, the extent of the damage — are slowly emerging and are still not totally clear, making it difficult for the layperson to follow.

But Beijing is taking notes on the sluggish U.S. response. At the one Senate Commerce hearing on the topic held Wednesday, JAMES LEWIS, director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, testified about the need for the U.S. to counter Chinese hacking operations by giving Beijing a taste of its own medicine through U.S. offensive hacking. Otherwise, he warned, China would just keep going."

politico.com/newsletters/natio

#CyberSecurity #China #USA #SaltTyphoon #StateHacking

As Donald Trump steps up his tariff threats against China, Beijing is moving to beat the U.S. president-elect to the punch with its own restrictions and get Washington to the negotiating table. japantimes.co.jp/business/2024 #business #economy #us #tariffs #donaldtrump #china #trade

China eyes negotiations as Trump threatens new tariffsThe Japan Times

@coffeetest

"Economy. You have your sources so you are entitled to your informed opinion but time will tell despite what we believe."

Likewise, chapeau. ;) Through discussions and dialogues, we learn.

"Things take a lot more time than most think."

Excactly. IMO, the final outcome will be that the #RF breaks apart, at least in three. The far-eastern part will become part of #China. The #Chinese government officials have even already begun to rename border regions in northern India, as...

@coffeetest @theeconomist

#GeoPol #Russia

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...national income by using cryptocurrency skemes around the globe, e.g. lately in #Canada. 4)

It still retains the support of #NorthKorea, which will profit greatly from the fighter jets it will receive in return, as well as the other global super power, #China. IMO, #Russia is slowly but surely becoming a #Chinese vassal state. I'd argue, that #Xi would like the #Ukrainian war to continue, now that the...

4)
krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/ho

How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks – Krebs on Securitykrebsonsecurity.com

Six years ago, the People’s Republic of China became older than the USSR would ever be. Now, it faces thresholds and barriers that older socialist projects did not get the chance to overcome. There is no template to follow, and no established model to apply.

China is on an uncharted path as it strives to achieve the target of building “a modern socialist country in all respects” by the year 2049.

morningstaronline.co.uk/articl

#china #socialism

China’s bridges to a socialist futureMorning Star

Bloody siege ends Myanmar army control of western border. “For the coup leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, this has been yet another humiliating defeat after a year of military setbacks. For the first time his regime has lost control of an entire border…dividing #Myanmar from #Bangladesh...“ | Read the full story by Jonathan Head & BBC Burmese at bbc.com/news/articles/ckg324de. #ArakanArmy #Rohingya #China

A bloody siege ends Myanmar army control of western borderwww.bbc.com

Beijing has unveiled a new tactic on Taiwan, the democratic island it claims as its own, officials and experts say: large-scale drills with no fanfare to normalize a heightened military presence. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/ #asiapacific #taiwan #china #us #pla #laichingte

China's 'drills that dare not speak their name' put Taiwan on alertThe Japan Times

What’s more, China’s economy is structured differently from those of developed countries whose emissions have fallen in recent decades, and that may make it harder to make cuts quickly.

Many advanced countries’ climate goals benefited from a shift away from polluting manufacturing — much of which was outsourced to China — and toward consumer spending and professional services

archive.ph/KY2Ey

#China #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #pollution #environment #climate

#security #privacy #China #smartphones

'The vast majority of people whose call records have been stolen by Chinese hackers have not been notified, according to industry sources, and there is no indication that most affected people will be notified in the near future.'

nbcnews.com/tech/security/phon

Most victims of Salt Typhoon hack haven’t been notified, sources sayNBC News