So, there’s this cheery little quote I ran across today: “Iraq remains the center of what Jordanian King Abdullah now refers to as the Third World War.” Source: World War Three may have already begun in Iraq and Syria Let’s hope he’s wrong. In other news mid-east news, the House of Saud has become the number threeContinue reading “World News: April 7, 2016”
Tag Archives: China
Stuxnet World Tour 2010
So, I guess China’s bought a lot of their industrial infrastructure hardware from Siemens. I’ve worked on the computers that Siemens uses to operate their industrial equipment and I know first-hand that it has no business being connected to any kind of computer network. As of 2007 the Germany’s GE was still shipping computers usingContinue reading “Stuxnet World Tour 2010”
UPDATE: China H4X0RZ Google
It appears the Peoples Republic of China is displeased with Google. The LA Time reports that the Google corporate executive site on some servers redirects to a Chinese webpage. Other Google properties that seem to be affected include the guest-facing side of Google Analytics. I guess it makes sense because. It was just this sort of shenanigansContinue reading “UPDATE: China H4X0RZ Google”
China May Incur Trade Deficit in March
As it moves to bolster its middle class, China looks as if it may, for the first time in nearly a quarter century, incur a deficit with its US trade partner. Chinese shares fell Tuesday as investors unloaded bank and property shares amid forecasts for a trade deficit in March that have raised uncertainties overContinue reading “China May Incur Trade Deficit in March”
Is China broke?
But China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debtContinue reading “Is China broke?”
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