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There are growing concerns about Chinese technology and weather can be weaponized.

Now, the recent incident where exploding pagers and walkie-talkies killed at least 37 people

and wounded around 3,000 in Lebanon and Syria,

an attack being blamed on Israel, although they deny it, is shining a spotlight on how ordinary

technology can be weaponized through war. Washington Examiner said this in an opinion piece.

It said, inflicting serious damage on a terrorist

organization should be celebrated, but the Israeli method, they say, has the additional benefit

of being a warning that the United States should be wary of continuing to rely on Chinese supply

chains for critical goods in our economy. Much has been reported on China's efforts to secure dominance over minerals in our supply chain,

but Hezbollah's plight underlies these specific risks of sabotage of technical devices.

They say take the ubiquitous iPhone.

Despite Apple being an American company, key components of almost every iPhone, including

the battery, processor, and camera, are made in China. While China does not have access to Apple's

source code, or at least so it is believed, the Chinese Communist Party's dominance over the

country's private sector affords it great latitude of action.

Briefly on that, the Chinese Communist Party actually requires many tech companies when they go to China to provide their source codes.

I'm not clear on whether Apple has done so, but that normally is one of the things you have to do if you want to get into the business in China.

And so the CCB does have the source code of a lot of different systems.

If you have the source code, basically you can access everything.

And one of the problems you have with manufacturing any product in China, you know, for example, batteries or processors or whatever else, is that there's

software at the surface level. You turn on your phone, you see the normal functions, but there's

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