US Blacklists 7 Chinese Supercomputer Entities
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Citing national security concerns, the U.S. Department of Commerce this week placed seven Chinese supercomputer organizations on the Entity List, which effectively bars them from receiving supplies or components from American companies.
Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo notes that the high-performance computing technologies developed by these entities could be used in weapons of mass destruction programs. Supercomputing capabilities are vital for the development of many - perhaps almost all - modern weapons and national security systems, such as nuclear weapons and hypersonic weapons, Raimondo says. The Department of Commerce will use the full extent of its authorities to prevent China from leveraging U.S. technologies to support these destabilizing military modernization efforts.
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Complacency or eased trade restrictions on dual-use technology would be the greater danger. So would any backing-off of counter-espionage investigations into Chinese bribery of American university professors or further infiltrations of PLA-linked Chinese nationals into research centers in the U.S. Both are prime examples of Beijing s willingness to play a long game as regards theft of intellectual property that has potential military applications.
Interestingly, there is another Chinese firm that is often mentioned in discussions of China s push into facial recognition AI development. The company known as Megvii produces a software application called Face++ that has secured many patents in the use of AI for surveillance technologies. One of that company s stakeholders? Bohai Harvest RST, the investment company started by Hunter Biden and his business partners.
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Game of drones: Chinese giant DJI hit by US tensions, staff defections
A drone flies as Chinese drone maker DJI demonstrates their app that tracks a drone s registration and owner in Montreal, Canada, on Nov 13, 2019. (Photo: REUTERS/Christinne Muschi)
08 Mar 2021 07:03AM (Updated:
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SHENZHEN, China: Chinese drone giant DJI Technology built up such a successful US business over the past decade that it almost drove all competitors out of the market.
Yet its North American operations have been hit by internal ructions in recent weeks and months, with a raft of staff cuts and departures, according to interviews with more than two dozen current and former employees.