Officials are warning about the potential use of giant Chinese-made and operated cranes as spy tools at U.S. ports.
National-security and Pentagon officials are warning about the potential use of giant Chinese-made and operated cranes as intelligence collection tools at United States ports, which are not only critical for U.S. shipping but the U.S. military.
In 2020, U.S. authorities limited five CCCC units’ access to U.S. technology, given Chinese laws that give its military the ability to access data scooped up by Chinese civilian firms. A Chinese Embassy representative called those concerns “paranoia-driven,” according to the report, but according to the report, the cranes have raised alarm throughout the U.S. government, after ports in Virginia, South Carolina, and Maryland that are at times used by nearby U.S. military bases purchased new cranes.
The container ship Northern Javelin is worked by ship to shore cranes at the Port of Savannah on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, in Savannah, Ga. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed an agreement today allowing the Army Corps of Engineers to begin the long-sought deepening of the Savannah harbor using $266 million in state money.
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