Former House China hawk warns Americans about the dangers of the CCP's growing technological dominance

The erstwhile president of the House Select Committee connected the Chinese Communist Party warned astir a fast-moving bundle and exertion contention betwixt the United States and China, arguing the weaponization of proviso chains could unit a showdown betwixt the escaped satellite and its totalitarian rivals.

Former Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., told Fox News main governmental anchor Bret Baier astir a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) op-ed helium wrote Sunday, outlining his concerns astir China's increasing technological dominance.

"On the modern battlefield, we request to not lone cognize our adversary but cognize ourselves and representation our proviso concatenation successful large detail," helium said Monday connected "Special Report."

The nationalist flags of the United States and China flutter astatine the Fairmont Peace Hotel connected April 25, 2024 successful Shanghai, China. (Photo by Wang Gang/VCG via Getty Images)

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Gallagher, the caput of defence for Palantir Technologies, a Denver-based bundle company, highlighted however China could usage its manufactured larboard cranes crossed the satellite to disrupt planetary commerce if the United States were to get into a conflict with China implicit Taiwan.

"The Biden medication precocious warned that Chinese-made larboard cranes could beryllium ‘controlled... from distant locations.’ European companies recovered that Chinese groups whitethorn person gained entree to the systems that power cargo ships. Billions of endpoints link to the internet, including sensors and devices that physically interact with captious infrastructure. Anyone with power implicit a information of the exertion stack specified arsenic semiconductors, cellular modules, oregon hardware devices, tin usage it to snoop, incapacitate oregon kill," helium wrote successful the WSJ.

A gantry crane is lifting containers astatine the Nanchang International Dry Port successful Nanchang, China, connected August 15, 2024.  (Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Gallagher added that there’s bipartisan enactment successful Congress for a tougher U.S. approach to China but called retired the Biden medication for pursuing the thought that the United States' interests align with the CCP erstwhile it comes to liable usage of exertion similar artificial quality (A.I.).

"I deliberation that's foolish. I deliberation the lone involvement Xi Jinping has erstwhile it comes to AI is successful dominating the exertion and utilizing it for dystopian totalitarian purposes," helium told Baier. 

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"And I deliberation successful airy of the pager onslaught [in Lebanon], successful airy of the weaponization of proviso chains much broadly, we're going to spot a bifurcation of the satellite into a totalitarian tech stack and a escaped satellite tech stack. Our occupation is to marque definite that the second prevails implicit the former. And measurement 1 successful doing that is recognizing that the CCP is not a liable histrion erstwhile it comes to exertion oregon climate alteration oregon fentanyl cooperation. That's a cardinal archetypal measurement we request to take."

The distinguished chap astatine the Hudson Institute voiced his concerns astir the absorption of the state and the readiness of America’s nationalist information establishment.

"The defence concern basal has go excessively ossified," said Gallagher. "We request to leverage our asymmetric advantage, which is our quality to nutrient weapons-grade bundle and use it to revitalizing our full defence concern base."

The Biden medication announced earlier this year the steps it was taking to fortify the cybersecurity of the nation's ports and to put successful larboard infrastructure.

The U.S. Commerce Department proposed Monday banning Chinese and Russian-made bundle and hardware successful transportation with autonomous vehicles successful the U.S., citing nationalist information concerns.

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"Cars contiguous person cameras, microphones, GPS tracking and different technologies connected to the internet. It doesn't instrumentality overmuch imaginativeness to recognize however a overseas adversary with entree to this accusation could airs a superior hazard to some our nationalist information and the privateness of U.S. citizens," said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.