triviaforfun

We live in an interesting time and place where China could declare war on the democratic countries in the next 5 years...let me explain. China is in a very bad situation where it has accumulated too much debt in its national and local governments, and corporations. Inflation is going through the roof - rent has increased 30% from 2017 in Beijing and other cities, and food costs are going up because of the tariffs. And incomes are declining - top income for tsinghua graduates, the top university in China, has fallen 20% from 2016. There have been various protests from veterans about decreased/stopped pays.

All this will eventually lead to a point where the CCP has to appease its citizens for the crashing economy. Either it will choose to subdue its own people - either with more police state, lockdowns, or jailing, and do so for the next 10-20 years while the bad debts slowly gets resolved (ala Japan), or it will choose to redirect its focus abroad (ala Germany 1930) and starts to aggressively expanding and taking over countries as puppet states (which it is already doing now with various African states and Southeast countries) or use its growing military to attack nearby countries (Taiwan, Vietnam)

That makes the (cyber)defenses against China even more important today. Thus we have US/Australia banning Huawei and ZTE, and Japan is thinking about banning them as well from the network. The free, democratic countries of the world are starting to realize how dangerous giving China backdoors into the networks is.

We need to monitor all our security breaches that exposes us to Chinese cyber espionages, so we can prevent theft of important technologies.