This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

With my friend and colleague and co- Here's John Bachelor.

With my friend and colleague and co-host Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang. You will all remember the War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise.

He is a crane operator at a port in New Jersey.

Bayonne, Gordon tells me. I forgot the detail.

The Martians invade by sending spacecraft driving into the tarmac and then emerging with machines that

look exactly like a crane and they attack America and all over the world harvesting people as fertilizer.

Well, here we are, cranes. Turns out, the Martians are the Chinese. And the story so far is, there is a Chinese

company dominating the crane market in our ports in America and we can believe our European allies.

And those cranes are rotten.

Gordon, how rotten? What's inside them?

Good day to you.

Good day, John.

Inside many of those cranes are cellular modems. Now in some of the

contracts between the port operators in ZPMC, the Shanghai company in question, they do call for cellular motives, but many of those

contracts do not. And even in those cases where the contracts do not call for the cellular motives, they are there, which is an indication that China is definitely using the cranes to not only spy on port operations, but also to disrupt Port Operations at critical moments.

We welcome our colleague Blaine Hain Holt retired Air Force General, served as deputy military

representative at NATO. Blaine, your level of security at the Air Force's top flight.

This suggests that other parts of the American national security are not as careful or is this old news and we're

updating now are we more careful now when we buy Chinese good day to you Bl Good day to you. It's great to be with both of you.

Unfortunately, I bring you bad news tonight. We're not any more secure than we were many

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