Falsehoods in US Perceptions of China
https://english.news.cn (June 19 2022)
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Falsehood 21
Beijing has perfected mass surveillance and exported that technology to more than 80 countries.
Reality Check
The US is the biggest empire of hacking.
* The use of video surveillance and big data technology is an important step taken by the Chinese government to improve social governance and is also a common practice across the world. It is necessary, legal, and justified. Tianwang (Skynet), which is composed of video surveillance systems, effectively eliminates potential risks to public security and ensures the high percentage of solved criminal cases in China. With the increasingly digitized crime prevention and control system, 98.6 percent of the people in China felt safe in 2021, and China is widely recognized as one of the safest countries in the world. China ranked third in the law and order index published by Gallup, a US consulting company, while the US ranked 36th.
* Statistics show that there were some 70 million cameras installed in the US in 2018, one for every 4.6 people. For the US to accuse China of mass surveillance, it's just a double standard at work.
* For a long time, the US has carried out large-scale, organized, and indiscriminate cyber espionage, surveillance, and attacks on foreign governments, enterprises, and individuals in violation of international law and the basic norms governing international relations. In June 2013, The Guardian and The Washington Post reported that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been running since 2007 PRISM, a clandestine electronic surveillance program whose targets include even its own allies. Der Spiegel reported that US intelligence may have been monitoring the German Chancellor's mobile phone communications for nearly a decade.
* In 2020, Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) demanded Facebook stop sending data of EU users to the US. The report comes just a few months after the European Court of Justice ruled the data transfer standard between the EU and the US doesn't adequately protect European citizens' privacy and concluded that EU citizens had no effective way to challenge US government surveillance. It is reported that US agencies such as NSA can theoretically ask internet companies like Facebook and Google to hand over data on an EU citizen and that EU citizen would be none-the-wiser.
* In December 2020, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) of France stated that google.fr and amazon.fr websites violated relevant French regulations by placing tracking cookies on their users' computers without obtaining prior consent and without providing adequate information.
* In 2021, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) reported that between 2012 and 2014, NSA used information cables of Denmark to wiretap (spy on) senior officials of Sweden, Norway, France, and Germany, including many political dignitaries such as former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The US apparently broke its promise that it would stop wiretapping Merkel.
* The US abuses its leading position in internet and communication technology and is truly an empire of hacking, tapping, and theft of secrets. From PRISM, the Irritant Horn project, and Stellar Wind, to Operation Telescreen, the Hive platform, and the QUANTUM attack system, the US has violated the freedom of communication and speech of its citizens through digital surveillance and has engaged in cyber-attacks, surveillance, and thefts of secrets across the world. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden of the Stateroom program show that the US has covertly installed eavesdropping devices in nearly 100 of its embassies and consulates to steal secrets from their host countries.
* A report on APT-C-39 released by Chinese cybersecurity company 360 in 2020 reveals that APT-C-39, a hacking group under the CIA, has conducted cyber infiltration attacks on China for 11 years targeting critical sectors including aviation and aerospace, research institutions, oil industry, large internet companies, and government agencies. Such attacks have seriously undermined China's national security and the security of its economy, critical infrastructure as well as personal information of the general public.
According to a report on the indiscriminate worldwide cyber attacks by NSA's APT-C-40 over the past decade released by 360 in 2022, NSA has attacked, using cyber weapons, 403 targets in 47 countries and regions worldwide, including China, the UK, Germany, France, Poland, Japan, India, the ROK, the UAE, South Africa, and Brazil.
On 19 April 2022, China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) issued an alert on cyber attacks by the US government against other countries and released a related report. It brings to light "Hive", a lightweight cyber weapon used exclusively by the US government, and the fact that the US has deployed cyber-attack platforms worldwide and has jumper servers and VPN channels in countries like France, Germany, Canada, Turkey, and Malaysia.
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Source: fmprc.gov.cnEditor: huaxia2022-06-19 22:19:29
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