11.22.07
Communist China and CIFUS: “Dropping the Shark”
To resuscitate the TV sitcom Happy Days, the shows main character, Arthur Fonzarelli, was aquatically clad in a swim suit, white tee-shirt, and leather jacket and filmed performing a harrowing water ski jump over a shark. Though The Fonz pulled it off, the network pulled the plug on Happy Days. Subsequently, any inane attempt to prevent a shows cancellation by scripting an absurd scene which only serves to end an audiences willing suspension of disbelief has been colloquially deemed jumping the shark.
But what does one call a situation where a U.S. governmental entity willfully suspends its disbelief communist China is a strategic threat and, ergo, appeases it with the sale of sensitive technologies currently employed in defending our computer systems from cyber warfare and espionage? I suggest we call it dropping the shark.
My friends, this is not a hypothetical homage to Seinfeld scriptwriters.
Read on . . .
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) must review and block Bain Capital and communist Chinas Huawei Technologies acquisition of a significant stake in the 3Com Corporation. If approved, Bain Capital and communist Chinas Huawei Technologies stake in the 3Com Corporation will gravely compromise our free republics national security. The 3Com Corporation is a world leader in intrusion prevention technologies designed to protect secure computer networks from hacker infiltration. To date, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) extensively utilizes 3Com Corporations intrusion prevention technologies. Thus, in the wake of this years successful cyber warfare by the communist Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), in which they hacked into one of our DoDs and one of the German Foreign Ministrys computer networks, approving this sale would be an abject abnegation of CFIUS duty to protect Americas vital defense technologies from enemy acquisition.
There should be no doubt about the aims of communist Chinas Huawei Technologies. The Pentagon has identified communist China as the culprit in recent cyber attacks on our militarys computer networks, which caused their shut down in June. Small wonder the pending sale to Huawei is deemed “really worrisome” by former Pentagon cyber security expert, Sami Saydjari.
Nor is this the first time communist Chinas Huawei Technologies has raised legitimate American concerns. In Newsweeks Jan. 16, 2006 issue it described Huawei Technologies a little too obsessed with acquiring advanced technology. Further, in Congressional testimony before the House Armed Services Committee on September 19, 2002 University of Wisconsin Law School Professor, Gary Milhollin, Director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, explained Huwei Technologies assistance in supplying technological support to our enemies in Iraq. Mihollin stated, The history of Huawei shows how sensitive American exports can wind up threatening our own armed forces So, when we talk about export controls, we are not just talking about money. We are talking about body bags. Even earlier, in 2000, the CIA discovered Huawei Technologies was selling fiber optics equipment to Saddam Hussein to advance Iraqis military technology and communications. This was in direct violation of the United Nations’ international embargo.
Moreover, in 2003, Cisco Systems formally charged Huawei Technologies with grievous intellectual property violations such as infringing on its patents, copying its Inter-Network Operating System (IOS) source codes, and copying its Command Line Interface (CLI) and corresponding screen displays. This is especially disturbing in light of the reports confirming the strong ties between Huawei Technologies, the communist Chinese government and its armed-wing the Peoples Liberation Army. In only two decades Huawei has expanded to over one hundred (100) countries; amassed sales over $8.7 billion; and greatly benefited the communist Chineses alarming military build-up.
To protect Americans security, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has sponsored House Resolution 730, of which I am an original cosponsor. Her resolution declares the 3Com transaction threatens national security and should not be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.” All of us are fortunate for Representative Ros-Lehtinens courageous leadership on this issue; and hopefully CFIUS will heed her counsel.
If they do not, and CFIUS approves this sale and its accompanying sensitive defense technologies to Huawei, it will place in communist Chinas cyber-hacking hands some of our most sensitive technologies employed for our high-tech defense; and it will be akin to CFIUS dropping the shark in our fish bowl and pulling the plug on Americas happy days.
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