Chinese counterfeit MQ-9 Reaper up about 50 miles west of Hong Kong. Looks like it was off network over the

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China’s Wing Loong 2 remotely piloted aircraft looks nearly identical to the MQ-9 Reaper, but U.S. analysts say the design lacks the engine power and flight range of the Reaper, highlighting the challenges facing China’s aerospace engineers as they work to match U.S. drone capabilities.

https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/china-plays-catch-up-to-u-s-drones/

06 OCTOBER 2023

Wing Loong II UAV recorded in Taiwan ADIZ for first time

A Chinese military Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) Wing Loong II (GJ-2) strike-capable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has made its first recorded appearance in Taiwan's Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ).

The aircraft was recorded on 3 October as it flew into the southwestern quadrant of the ADIZ, north of Pratas island, according to Taiwanese Ministry of National Defense (MND) data.

The Wing Loong II is AVIC's second-generation Wing Loong platform and is capable of both intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and combat support roles. With an enlarged airframe, the UAV has six underwing weapons for armaments. The UAV also has three blade antennas (one under each wing and the third under the fuselage). Janes has previously assessed that these could be used to stream intercepted signals to People's Liberation Army (PLA) ground stations.

The appearance of a Wing Loong II in the ADIZ is unusual. The UAV has been in PLA Air Force (PLAAF) service since 2018 and is widely exported. Its users include Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. While it is not a new platform, Janes assesses that its first appearance in the ADIZ was likely to test a new capability or system.

The Wing Loong II has been a frequent testbed for new capabilities. In 2021 during the 13th China Air Show at Zhuhai, Li Yidong, chief designer of the Wing Loong-series of UAVs said that the platform will continue to “explore innovative application scenarios” and “support technological innovation around the four aspects of ‘platform', ‘application', ‘intelligence' and ‘collaboration'”.

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/wing-loong-ii-uav-recorded-in-taiwan-adiz-for-first-time

06 DECEMBER 2023

Wing Loong II UAV being developed for diverse roles

by Akhil Kadidal

The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) is improving the capabilities of its Wing Loong II unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to handle multiple applications.

During a recent flight demonstration of the UAV for the state-owned newspaper, Global Times , Li Yidong, chief designer at AVIC Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), said the applications of the Wing Loong series of UAVs “are still expanding”.

The demonstration showed the Wing Loong II's ability to climb, cruise, and operate at low altitude. Li said, “In the future, the [UAVs] will integrate with new technologies, including 5G+, industrial internet, artificial intelligence, and big data, and promote more highly efficient applications in more fields together with the whole industrial chain, such as scientific investigation, mapping, and logistics”.

The demonstration was conducted at AVIC's Zigong Aviation Industrial Park, according to state-owned media.

Janes assessed video imagery of the demonstration event, which included flights by at least two variants of the Wing Loong II UAV. This includes AVIC's Ganlin-1, a version of the Wing Loong II used for “weather modification operations”. Equipped with six pods, including a flame-emitting system for ionisation, this UAV is being used for cloud seeding and to measure meteorological conditions. The second UAV flown was a combat variant of the Wing Loong II with a specialised jammer pod. Janes has assessed that this pod comprises a wideband jammer operating in the 0.5–40 GHz range.

These trials are almost certainly part of AVIC's ambition to adapt the Wing Loong II for multiple applications by integrating diverse payloads. Li acknowledged this to the Global Times when he said that AVIC's UAVs will be subject to “technical differentiation” and that “different genres of UAVs will have different applications”.

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/wing-loong-ii-uav-being-developed-for-diverse-roles

>>20731303

>Looks like it was off network over the

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>>20731293

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Ex-TikTok Employee Says He Was Ordered To Send US Data to China

Matthew Xiao

April 15, 2024

A former senior employee at TikTok said he was ordered to send American user data to Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, contradicting TikTok’s public claims of operating independently from China, according to a Fortune report published Monday.

Evan Turner, a senior data scientist for TikTok from April to September in 2022, told Fortune that every two weeks TikTok had him email spreadsheets containing millions of American users’ data to ByteDance employees in Beijing, including the users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses, and demographics.

Turner said he "literally worked on a project that gave U.S. data to China" even though TikTok had launched Project Texas in March 2022, promising U.S. officials that it would stop sharing American user data with its Chinese parent company and keep the data in U.S.-based data centers. "There were Americans that were working in upper management that were completely complicit in this," Turner said.

The former senior data scientist said that while his supervisor was switched from a ByteDance executive in Beijing to an American manager in Seattle, a human resources representative told him he would in reality still report to the Beijing-based ByteDance executive. Turner said he never met with the American manager and continued to have weekly meetings with the ByteDance executive.

"Even though a spreadsheet is probably a very tiny percentage of all of the information that TikTok collects, it can be extremely targeted and very damaging to certain people," Anton Dahbura, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, told Fortune. "Everyone should be really concerned."

U.S. lawmakers in January grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew over his company’s alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party, after both President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump voiced national security concerns and tried to restrict the video-sharing platform’s operations in the United States.

Last month, the House voted 352-65 in favor of banning TikTok unless it is sold to a non-Chinese company. Biden said he would sign the bill should it pass through the Senate.

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/ex-tiktok-employee-says-he-was-ordered-to-send-us-data-to-china/

About Project Texas

TikTok’s Commitment to U.S. National Security

TikTok’s mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. With more than a billion people using our platform to discover content and share their voice each month, it’s our responsibility to ensure the safety, privacy, and security of our community. TikTok faces a high level of scrutiny as a result of our parent company’s Chinese heritage, and that scrutiny requires a unique level of transparency—and accountability. In that spirit, we are sharing details about how we’re meeting this commitment and working to address U.S. national security concerns through an initiative called Project Texas.

Put simply, Project Texas is an unprecedented initiative dedicated to making every American on TikTok feel safe, with confidence that their data is secure and the platform is free from outside influence. We’ve spent the last two years developing a framework through discussions with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), and we’ve spent roughly $1.5 billion to date on implementation. Project Texas puts the concepts of transparency and accountability into action by addressing national security concerns head-on with concrete, measurable solutions.

The framework has five key pillars:

Independent Governance

Data Protection and Access Control

Software Assurance

Content Assurance

Monitoring and Compliance

This approach will allow us to comprehensively address concerns that have been raised in the U.S. about TikTok, while also allowing us to continue to offer a globally interoperable service. We have already proactively implemented substantial portions of this framework, and we look forward to continuing our work to further ensure peace of mind for our community and our stakeholders.

Full text at:

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XI’S DEATH ORDER China brags it EXECUTED ‘US spy’ in unprecedented admission as Xi’s spooks issue chilling ‘Sharpening The Sword’ warning

The man had allegedly handed over secrets, including details on China's military communications, to a 'foreign government'

Juliana Cruz Lima, Foreign News Reporter

Published: 12:06 ET, Apr 15 2024

CHINA has bragged about its merciless execution of an alleged "US spy" in an unprecedented detailed admission.

The man's death sentence and execution were disclosed in a chilling propaganda documentary by the country's top counter-espionage agency - the Ministry of State Security.

Monday marked the first time that China indicated that a man named Huan Yu executed for spying in 2016 had sold secrets to the United States.

State broadcaster CCTV said the Sichuan local had handed over secrets, including details on China's military communications, to a foreign government.

China previously said he had been paid $700,000 by his foreign handlers, before being arrested in 2011.

In a campaign video to promote China's success in combating foreign espionage, CCTV confirmed that Huang Yu was executed in May 2016, just a month after his conviction and death sentence were announced.

China had never given no details of the country Huang was accused of assisting and did not explicitly mentioned the country on Monday's propaganda clip.

However, it made sure to show images of an American flag and the US Capitol building.

According to the documentary, Huang Yu, a researcher at a top-secret communication system development project, sent a message to "the website of a certain country's spy agency" with confidential Chinese military codes.

Huang was upset after being dismissed from a unit working on the project owing to poor job performance, and he had expressed a desire to defect, according to the report.

After the legitimacy of the codes was established, Huang was recruited by an unknown foreign intelligence organisation and trained in Hong Kong and Bangkok.

The propaganda documentary went on to claim he not only sold "core secrets" through his profession, but also deceived his wife, who worked at the same institution, into duplicating classified documents that he could pass on in exchange for further cash.

Huang was accused of leaking "a shocking amount" of classified information concerning the Communist Party's, government agencies', and military communication networks, as well as companies like as banking and telecoms.

These included design, technical specifications, secret algorithms, source codes and programmes.

Huang received the highest sentence for spying that caused "serious harm" to China's national security and was executed in May 2016.

The documentary also revealed new details about a former Taiwan researcher in the Czech Republic who spied for Taiwan.

Cheng Yu-chin, sentenced to seven years for espionage in 2022, was recruited by Taiwan's intelligence agency during his PhD studies in Prague.

He stole secrets from mainland China and was paid NT$2.76 million to identify infiltration targets.

Full article at:

https://www.the-sun.com/news/11097873/china-brags-it-executed-us-spy-propaganda-doc/