{"id":1748886,"date":"2022-11-23T07:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T12:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748886"},"modified":"2022-11-23T07:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T12:32:33","slug":"why-are-we-allowing-dangerous-chinese-tech-companies-to-operate-on-american-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-are-we-allowing-dangerous-chinese-tech-companies-to-operate-on-american-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are We Allowing Dangerous Chinese Tech Companies To Operate On American Soil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-are-we-allowing-dangerous-chinese-tech-companies-to-operate-on-american-soil%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748886&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is synonymous with espionage. The country\u2019s tech companies, <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/12\/23\/china-tech-giants-process-stolen-data-spy-agencies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we\u2019re told<\/a>, give the CCP a vital edge. Companies include the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/thailand\/special-reports\/875324\/baidu-teals-data-opens-it-to-spying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Baidu<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/alibaba-liege-airport-china-mega-project-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alibaba<\/a>. Why, then, are both operating on U.S. soil?<\/p>\n<p>Alibaba is China\u2019s answer to Amazon. The Chinese multinational technology company specializes in e-commerce, retail, internet, and technology, to name just a few areas. The problematic company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaldata.com\/company-profile\/alibaba-group-holding-ltd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has a business presence<\/a> in dozens of countries, including the United Kingdom, South Korea, Singapore, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. The fact that Alibaba, very much an ally of the CCP, is operating in the U.S., China\u2019s fiercest rival, is worrisome, to say the least. <\/p>\n<p>It certainly worries Charles Dunst, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Dunst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/blog\/how-china-winning-battle-digital-sovereignty-review?amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently wrote<\/a> an eye-opening article that revolved around a rather sobering shopping experience. Earlier this year, the researcher was shopping at a CVS near his apartment in Virginia. At the self-checkout counter, he scanned for payment options; besides cash and credit\/debit cards, other options included Apple Pay, PayPal, and Alipay, Alibaba\u2019s online payment platform. This made Dunst stop and think. <\/p>\n<p>In truth, American retailers <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/retail\/american-retailers-using-alipay-attract-chinese-tourists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have been offering <\/a>the Alipay option of payment for years, all in an effort to attract more Chinese tourists. The app has at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2019\/02\/15\/alibaba-alipay-america-expansion-walgreens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">4 million<\/a> users in the United States. Initially, as Dunst noted, the Alipay payment option was confined to luxury shops, \u201cto capture the spending of well-off Chinese tourists.\u201d However, the platform quickly expanded into your average, everyday American stores, like Walgreens, 7\/11, and the aforementioned CVS. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, some of the biggest cities in the United States now allow riders to pay their taxi fares using the app. As Dunst highlights, although this expansion is heavily focused on serving the needs of Chinese visitors, \u201cAlipay\u2019s presence at the center of ordinary U.S. commerce will expand the platform\u2019s brand awareness among U.S. shoppers, possibly even winning a few adoptees in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trafficking-Data-Winning-Digital-Sovereignty\/dp\/0197620507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> new book<\/a>, aptly titled, \u201cTrafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty,\u201d Aynne Kokas discusses just why the expansion of companies like Alibaba in the United States should be of genuine concern to the country\u2019s leaders.\u00a0Alibaba is first and foremost a tech company. And what do tech companies love? Data. Lots of it. Similarly, the CCP also loves data, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiafinancial.com\/china-stolen-personal-data-of-80-of-americans-the-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Americans\u2019 data.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kokas, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, demonstrates how the CCP capitalizes on this data flow for political gain. A company as powerful as Alibaba can contribute greatly to data trafficking, by moving inordinate amounts of data out of the United States and back to China. This creates an environment that \u201cnot only exploits consumers,\u201d but completely \u201cempowers the Chinese government,\u201d Kokas notes. <\/p>\n<p>Like Kokas, Dunst believes that the United States\u2019 failure to effectively \u201cregulate data gathering by tech firms operating in the United States at the federal level has allowed firms from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just TikTok and ByteDance. 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