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10/29/2021
The media is still buzzing over the tensions in Asia. We recently covered the reaction to the Chinese hypersonic missile test, and it’s still being talked about. In a recent interview, US General Mark Milley said of the event, “I don’t know if it’s quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it’s very close to that.” (History refresh: “A Sputnik moment” refers to when the public was deeply concerned about the apparent technological gap between the US and the Soviet Union after Sputnik 1, the world’s first satellite, was launched by the Soviets in 1957.)
China Telecom has been banned from operating in the United States by the US Federal Communications Commission. This was because, in their words, it "is subject to exploitation, influence, and control by the Chinese government,” and is “highly likely to be forced to comply with Chinese government requests without sufficient legal procedures subject to independent judicial oversight." TikTok is still under fire, having testified in front of the Senate recently. CBS News reported, “TikTok's privacy policy indicates that it may share data collected on users with a parent company, subsidiary, or other affiliates of its corporate group.” TikTok’s parent company is ByteDance Technology, which now has a former CCP member on the board. Senator Ted Cruz repeatedly asked about whether TikTok considers ByteDance part of its “corporate group,” but the head of public policy, Michael Beckerman, refused to answer.
By the summer of this year, the US had already banned 59 Chinese companies from American investment to prevent that growth from helping the military-industrial complex of the superpower. Even Biden recently made comments that the US was committed to aiding Taiwan should the country be attacked by China, which of course received backlash from the Chinese foreign ministry.
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen said the threat from China is growing every day and confirmed that the US had military troops on Taiwanese soil for training purposes. Last year, Taiwan denied this after video footage of training on the island was posted and then—oops—deleted by the US. Now, Taiwan seems ready to admit it as an open fact, which says something about the current state of tensions.
To add to all those threat indicators, China and Russia recently conducted an unusual joint exercise of 10 warships with airborne helicopters that traveled through the international waters of the Tsugaru Strait between mainland Japan and the northern island of Hokkaido, rounded the eastern coast, and returned to China through the Osumi straight. Essentially, they circled mainland Japan together in an unprecedented fashion. Japan scrambled their fighter jets and, of course, expressed concern over the antagonistic exercise. Both Russia and China have separate territorial disputes with Japan over various islands, and Japan is completely aware of the threat should something in the region ever “pop off.”
Relevant Links
Missile test still a focus:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1...
Telecom security:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/27/busine...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/w...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz...
https://www.newsweek.com/tiktok-denie...
Taiwan’s open concern:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/27/asia/t...
Russia and China circling Japan together:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/25/asia/c...
https://apnews.com/article/europe-rus...
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inte...
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