Chinese products and personnel can potentially provide cheaper goods and services, with technology and expertise more developed than that of the Western world in some areas. Governments and companies need to make the decision between accessing the high-quality, inexpensive advantages China has to offer, and the risk involved in potentially exposing the country to espionage. International responses vary — the U. In Australia, we are still on the fence.
We have refused to allow Chinese companies to offer tenders on any part of the NBN and will probably do the same with coming 5G network infrastructure, but Chinese smartphones are readily available.
A Taiwanese chip company called MediaTek built a chip that was used in millions of lower-end smart phones, many of them made by Chinese manufacturers. The setting could have allowed root access to the phone by another person or piece of software. They admitted that computers shipped in had malware preinstalled. Lenovo sold their laptops with Superfish, which was designed to influence the ads users saw but also left information on browser traffic wide open to malicious people and programs.
Lenovo admitted that laptops shipped to stores and consumers in late had malware preinstalled. In Krytpowire , a mobile security firm, found that up to million lower-end android devices had Chinese malware hidden as a preinstalled support app. The company responsible, Shanghai Adups Technology Co. Border guards are taking their phones and secretly installing an app that extracts emails, texts and contacts, as well as information about the handset itself.
Tourists say they have not been warned by authorities in advance or told about what the software is looking for, or that their information is being taken. Analysis by the Guardian, academics and cybersecurity experts suggests the app, designed by a Chinese company,searches Android phones against a huge list of content that the authorities view as problematic.
This includes a variety of terms associated with Islamist extremism, including Inspire, the English-language magazine produced by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, and various weapons operation manuals. However, the surveillance app also searches for information on a range of other material — from fasting during Ramadan to literature by the Dalai Lama, and music by a Japanese metal band called Unholy Grave.
About million people visit the Xinjiang region every year, according to Chinese authorities. These include domestic and foreign tourists, and most enter from elsewhere in the country. Based on their responses, the app generates a color code.
QR scans are required upon entry or exit from certain regions, as well as to enter some apartment buildings, workplaces, transit systems and other public destinations.
Not so fast. It is unclear how widespread the use of the software is in China, but it appears to vary by location. Its expansion puts watchdogs on high alert. Other countries, including South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, have developed similar tracking technology to monitor COVID patients after recovery and track individuals with symptoms during their quarantine.
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The Chinese government is requiring citizens in Xinjiang province to install spyware on their mobile phones and is enforcing the policy with police spot-checks, according to several online reports. Reflecting a country-wide clampdown on internet usage, users of WeChat in the regional capital of Urumqi received a message on their phones earlier this month instructing them to install an app called Jing Wang — "clean internet" in Chinese. Those who do not install the app face up to 10 days in detention, the noticed warned.
And the police have been following up on that threat, according to several online posts. One news article reported that 10 Kazakh women in the region were arrested after a group chat discussion about immigrants was picked up by censors. And at the weekend, a widely shared Twitter post showed a police checkpoint where citizens were forced to hand over their phones to be checked for the spyware.
The app is itself pretty invasive — it not only blocks specific websites, but also searches a phone's file storage for "illegal" images and can prevent the installation of other applications.
The main goal of the app is — or was — to shield minors from inappropriate content and things like viruses. However, the Chinese government has repurposed it to act as a mass surveillance tool. In the official notice sent, users were told that the app would "automatically detect terrorist and illegal religious videos, images, ebooks and electronic documents" on their phones.
That is due to the region's long-held tensions with the Chinese government based on the other side of the country. The large, remote region borders eight countries — Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India — and until recently its population was mostly Uighur, who are Sunni Muslims.
The region's culture and economy was built on the famous Silk Road travel route and it has a strong sense of cultural identity and independence that has sparked numerous conflicts with the Han people that dominate China. In , the Uighurs declared independence and a new country — East Turkestan — but the Chinese communist revolution squashed those plans the same year.
Officially, it is an autonomous region along the same lines of Tibet. The old tensions emerged again in the same era as the Tiananmen Square massacre of , when street protests erupted in Xinjang and were brutally put down.
The Chinese authorities responded in the same way they did in Beijing — by arresting and imprisoning leaders of the protest movement. A map showing the location of the city of Urumqi in relation to the rest of the region. In , in the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics, the Uighurs started protesting again. And then in , rioting in Urumqi led to the deaths of people, most of them Han Chinese.
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