The former chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party warned a couple of fast-moving software program and expertise race between the United States and China, arguing the weaponization of provide chains might power a showdown between the free world and its totalitarian rivals.
Former Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., instructed Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier a couple of Wall Street Journal (WSJ) op-ed he wrote Sunday, outlining his issues about China's rising technological dominance.
“On the modern battlefield, we need to not only know our adversary but know ourselves and map our supply chain in great detail,” he stated Monday on “Special Report.”
The nationwide flags of the United States and China flutter on the Fairmont Peace Hotel on April 25, 2024 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Wang Gang/VCG through Getty Images)
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Gallagher, the top of protection for Palantir Technologies, a Denver-based software program firm, highlighted how China might use its manufactured port cranes the world over to disrupt worldwide commerce if the United States had been to get right into a battle with China over Taiwan.
“The Biden administration recently warned that Chinese-made port cranes could be ‘controlled… from remote locations.’ European companies found that Chinese groups may have gained access to the systems that control cargo ships. Billions of endpoints connect to the internet, including sensors and devices that physically interact with critical infrastructure. Anyone with control over a portion of the technology stack such as semiconductors, cellular modules, or hardware devices, can use it to snoop, incapacitate or kill,” he wrote within the WSJ.
A gantry crane is lifting containers on the Nanchang International Dry Port in Nanchang, China, on August 15, 2024. (Costfoto/NurPhoto through Getty Images)
Gallagher added that there’s bipartisan assist in Congress for a harder U.S. method to China however referred to as out the Biden administration for pursuing the concept the United States' pursuits align with the CCP in the case of accountable use of expertise like synthetic intelligence (A.I.).
“I think that's foolish. I think the only interest Xi Jinping has when it comes to AI is in dominating the technology and using it for dystopian totalitarian purposes,” he instructed Baier.
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“And I think in light of the pager attack [in Lebanon], in light of the weaponization of supply chains more broadly, we're going to see a bifurcation of the world into a totalitarian tech stack and a free world tech stack. Our job is to make sure that the latter prevails over the former. And step one in doing that is recognizing that the CCP is not a responsible actor when it comes to technology or climate change or fentanyl cooperation. That's a fundamental first step we need to take.”
The distinguished fellow on the Hudson Institute voiced his issues concerning the path of the nation and the readiness of America’s nationwide safety institution.
“The defense industrial base has become too ossified,” stated Gallagher. “We need to leverage our asymmetric advantage, which is our ability to produce weapons-grade software and apply it to revitalizing our entire defense industrial base.”
The Biden administration announced earlier this year the steps it was taking to strengthen the cybersecurity of the nation's ports and to spend money on port infrastructure.
The U.S. Commerce Department proposed Monday banning Chinese and Russian-made software program and {hardware} in reference to autonomous automobiles within the U.S., citing nationwide safety issues.
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“Cars today have cameras, microphones, GPS tracking and other technologies connected to the internet. It doesn't take much imagination to understand how a foreign adversary with access to this information could pose a serious risk to both our national security and the privacy of U.S. citizens,” stated U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
