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Big American tech companies make lots of money selling their wares to China’s security and military establishments in spite of dark events in Xinjiang, Tibet, and elsewhere. Old news. But we expose something new in our latest at SpyTalk. https://www.spytalk.co/p/exposed-silicon-valleys-hand-in-chinese
What’s new: tech firms appear to know much more about end-use and clients than they admit. At best, they are like Sergeant Shultz, knowing, seeing, and hearing nothing even as they provide post-sales support (more below) to customers... https://www.compliancebuilding.com/2018/06/13/the-sergeant-shultz-view-on-inadvertent-custody/
... like the Chinese Min of Public Security and the Chinese Army. Chipmakers employ field applications engineers and customer engineers to exchange heaps of data with builders of supercomputers for the military and the secret police, including post-sales support.
Job descriptions for positions in Shanghai and Beijing from Intel, Xilinx, Nvidia and others make that clear.
An Intel field applications engineer in China, according to Glassdoor, closely assists system builders, like supercomputer makers, with many tasks.
An Intel field applications engineer in China, according to Glassdoor, closely assists system builders, like supercomputer makers, with many tasks.
Just a few examples:
•Be the technical account owner who aligns with key influencers in the customer's technical staff
•Uncover essential information and synthesize into account and opportunity profiles
•Be the technical account owner who aligns with key influencers in the customer's technical staff
•Uncover essential information and synthesize into account and opportunity profiles
•Present capabilities of Intel programmable solutions and perform demonstrations of feasibility studies and proofs of concept in customer meetings and seminars
•Create technical proposals based on product portfolio knowledge, customer requirements and inputs from the team…
•Create technical proposals based on product portfolio knowledge, customer requirements and inputs from the team…
Several other Silicon Valley firms are involved in helping to build China’s surveillance state and its military. A who’s who is contained in essays by @dahlialpeterson @PeterWood_PDW @EBKania @alexjoske and others in the recently published…
China’s Quest for Foreign Technology, Beyond Espionage, edited by @dktatlow and William Hannas. It looks like an academic treatise but contains frightening reads—especially Ms. Peterson’s essay... https://www.routledge.com/Chinas-Quest-for-Foreign-Technology-Beyond-Espionage/Hannas-Tatlow/p/book/9780367473570
... and others by @jmulvenon and @AnnaPuglisi838. See SpyTalk for more, including mention of the now ubiquitous Chinese Communist Party branches inside foreign firms. Here is a photo showing an outing organized by the Party branch at Intel Mobile Beijing.
You can read more about this problem and many others at SpyTalk: profiles of Avril Haines, the next US Director of National Intelligence, and Vincent Stewart, possibly the next DCI; the difficulties behind the scenes at the House Intelligence Committee...
...and the complications over the assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist. Take a peek, and if you like what you see, consider subscribing. https://www.spytalk.co/
