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- Khaled Abu Toameh: "A Black Day for Palestinian Journalism"
- Lawrence A. Franklin: China's Cyber War Against America
by Khaled Abu Toameh • May 20, 2020 at 5:00 am
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) has denounced the order as a "black day in the history of Palestinian journalism and a massacre against freedom of expression."
The number of Palestinian journalists targeted by the Palestinian Authority may have dropped, but it is obvious that most of these reporters practice self-censorship and take extreme care to avoid angering their leaders.
That is most likely why most Palestinian journalists living in PA-controlled areas rarely, if ever, report on issues that reflect negatively on Palestinian leaders. The only freedom of expression they are allowed to practice is one that includes heaping praise on Palestinian leaders while bashing Israel on a daily basis.
Those journalists probably see themselves as foot soldiers in the Palestinian national struggle to destroy Israel and replace it with yet another extremist Muslim state.
The Palestinian Authority is ignoring calls to lift a ban on dozens of news websites and social media channels that were blocked more than six months ago, raising concern among Palestinian journalists that their leaders are still working to muzzle critical voices. (Images source: iStock)
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is ignoring calls to lift a ban on dozens of news websites and social media channels that were blocked more than six months ago, raising concern among Palestinian journalists that their leaders are still working to muzzle critical voices.
The PA's refusal to comply with the appeals coincided with World Press Freedom Day, a worldwide event marked on May 3 to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession.
by Lawrence A. Franklin • May 20, 2020 at 4:00 am
Beijing's cyber offensive against the Free World is only part of what appears China's effort to achieve global leadership in critical future technologies such as artificial intelligence, renewable energy systems, robotics, rare earth element exploitation, biotechnologies, as well as medical and agricultural advances.
These attacks will likely continue, as past attempts by U.S. administrations to reach cessation agreements with Beijing seem to have been futile. China clearly views cyber attacks as a weapon of warfare with little risk of eliciting an aggressive U.S. response. In fact, PLA leaders in China's Guangzhou Military Region have publicly called for Chinese operators to continue the "People's War," win the cyber war, and prepare for attacks on satellites in space.
China's Cyber War on America has been ceaseless, comprehensive and longstanding. In the past 15 years, China has hacked government departments, defense contractors, utility companies, and U.S. and allied intelligence agencies. Pictured: Then US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks at a press conference on December 20, 2018 about indictments of Chinese government hackers who targeted companies in a dozen countries, which US officials said showed Beijing had not fulfilled its pledge to stop such actions. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
China's Cyber War on America has been ceaseless, comprehensive and longstanding. In the past 15 years, China has hacked official government departments, defense contractors, utility companies, and U.S. and allied intelligence agencies. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has, it appears, integrated China's cyber attack capabilities into its apparent overall plan to surpass the U.S. as the world's leading power.
As part of its efforts, the CCP has for years built up a sophisticated infrastructure within the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to steal critical technical data from U.S. public and private targets. The PLA units in the Second and Third Departments of the General Staff are the principal engineers of China's vast assault to collect U.S. intellectual property.[1] Another unit, probably in the PLA's General Staff's Fourth Department, concentrates its electronic warfare systems to seed malware into U.S. computer networks.[2]
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