China’s cyber capabilities are drawing more focus from Congress, U.S. defense and intelligence officials and private businesses.
China’s cyber capabilities are drawing more focus from Congress, U.S. defense and intelligence officials and private businesses as Washington’s relationship with Beijing becomes more adversarial amid stiff economic competition and China’s efforts to expand its influence as a world power.
The most recent high-profile example is a Congress-led effort to ban the popular video app TikTok over its parent company’s connections to Beijing. Awith broad bipartisan margins and President Joe Biden has pledged to sign it if it passes the Senate, which is more uncertain with questions from lawmakers about targeting a specific company and if it
Among them is China’s heavy investments and capabilities with blockchain technology. Blockchain is known for its connection to cryptocurrencies but has seen its uses expand with time to cloud-based storage and other applications. Beijing’s advancing technological and cyber abilities has been a growing problem brought up by U.S. intelligence leaders in recent years.
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