>Speech bubble empty.
Uh, that's steam.
Report: China Could Use Huawei Cloud to Blackmail Global Economies
A report published by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) warns China could gain “coercive leverage” – in essence, blackmail material – over Asian, African, and Latin American countries thanks to telecom giant Huawei’s strategy to provide massive amounts of Internet storage to dozens of governments at discounted prices.
The reporttitled Huawei’s Global Cloud Strategy – Economic and Strategic Implications, charts Huawei’s efforts to sell cloud storage bundled with administrative services and computer hardware to 41 countries.
Most of the client states for the 70 different deals the report analyzed are considered “not free” or “partly free” by Freedom House – or “non-liberal,” as CSIS put it – making them at least ideologically sympathetic to the authoritarian Chinese government. The bulk of Huawei’s customers were located in Asia or sub-Saharan Africa and classified as “middle-income” countries.
CSIS observed these are also the key characteristics of emerging economies that have bought into Huawei’s “Safe City” program – in other words, massive video and electronic surveillance systems.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/05/28/report-china-could-use-huawei-cloud-to-blackmail-global-economies/
Radical Soros-Backed Group Supporting Legal Bail Fund for Violent Pro-Palestinian ‘Activists’
The radical Soros-funded Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) is a “fiscal sponsor” of the newly-created Palestine Freedom Fund, a project of the rabid anti-Israel NY4Palestine Coalition which “as a first initiative” has raised nearly $20,000 to fund legal expenses for Palestinian protesters who participated in antisemitic demonstrations that descended into violence against Jews in Midtown Manhattan last week.
The fund is aligned with three supporting radical anti-Israel organizations including the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which process the donations of the fund.
A statement on the fund’s site states that Palestinian communities “are under attack,” while asking for assistance “to fight criminalization and support targeted youth!”
“Every day youth and activists for Palestine are targeted for criminalization, surveillance, protest arrests and police brutality,” the site continues, claiming that the fund “works to support bail and legal expenses for Palestinian organizers, activists for Palestine and community members targeted for persecution.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/28/radical-soros-backed-group-supporting-legal-bail-fund-for-violent-pro-palestinian-activists/
Mitch McConnell Blasts Biden Budget Proposal: Now We Know Why the Administration ‘Tried to Bury’ the Announcement
“Now we know why the Administration tried to bury their budget announcement on the Friday before a holiday weekend,” the Kentucky Republican said in a Friday statement following the release of Biden’s budget, explaining it would have a negative impact on American families by drowning them “debt, deficits, and inflation.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/28/mitch-mcconnell-blasts-biden-budget-proposal-now-we-know-why-the-administration-tried-to-bury-the-announcement/
New
@PressSec
statement on Belarus:
-U.S. & EU drafting a list of targeted sanctions against key members of the Lukashenka regime
-Treasury drafting an EO to “provide the United States increased authorities to impose sanctions on elements of the Lukashenka regime”
https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1398438329981542400