Belts and Roads

Chinese Activity in the Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogaware met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing last week, Solomon Islands and China signed a "comprehensive strategic partnership" agreement.Diplomatic relations of the Solomon Islands shifted from supporting Taiwan to cooperating with Beijing when Manasseh Sogaware took power in 2019.A representative of the US National Security Council said that Washington "respects the ability of countries to make sovereign decisions in the interests of their people" and called on the…

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Economic indicators in China for the first half of 2023

▪️ Gross domestic product (GDP) of China increased by 5.5% year on year and reached 59.3 trillion yuan (about $8.3 trillion). In the second quarter, the country's GDP increased by 6.3% year on year.▪️ Consumer goods retail sales in China increased 8.2% year on year, up 2.4 percentage points from the first quarter, to about 22.76 trillion yuan.▪️ The country's value-added industrial production, an important economic indicator for China, rose 3.8% year on year.▪️ Fixed…

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Investment in China’s information security (in line with the strategy) will increase every year

Investment in China's information security (in line with the strategy) will increase every year. In China, infobez includes INFOPSI.It is reported that a massive program to strengthen the data security sector will include cooperation between research centers, universities and various companies. The project is expected to lay the foundation "for building the country's digital economy." According to the plan, China intends to expand the data security industry by 30% every year: as a result, by…

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The RAND report and the Chinese threat

The Cynic A few days ago, the think tank RAND released a rather interesting article stating that a long-term military conflict is a threat to US foreign policy. The message is backed up by intelligence reports that Xi will likely give the order to conquer Taiwan by 2027. RAND was one of the main think tanks in the US, but RAND has difficulty switching from the realities of the Cold War to the realities of…

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From March 2022 …

Chinese expansionists believe that before landing on the island of Taiwan in the future, it is necessary to use a large number of missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles to bombard the military facilities of the island (photo) in order to minimize losses among the personnel of the troops. They came to this conclusion, relying on the special operation of the RF Armed Forces in Ukraine, where the parties have many dead. The Chinese regime already…

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Translated: China will step up IP Theft

In the coming years, China will face an acute shortage of cybersecurity specialists By 2027, China will have a shortage of 3.27 million cybersecurity professionals, while the country's higher education institutions are only capable of graduating 30,000 cybersecurity graduates annually. Demand from government organizations and enterprises for cybersecurity staff has skyrocketed in recent years amid an increase in online threats around the world. Relevant Chinese legislation, including the Cyber Security Law, Data Security Law, and…

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China’s arms exports to foreign countries

China's arms exports to foreign countries and the delivery of representatives of private security organizations (in other words, PSCs) of Chinese mining enterprises, ports and infrastructure under construction abroad in the period 2018-2021. Symbols on the map: • pale pink - PSC services: mainly in the Middle East (Turkey, Iraq, Jordan) and Africa, also in South America (Argentina) and Southern Europe (Malta). • dark red color - export of weapons: mainly to the countries of…

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