China's stolen weapons systems

 China's stolen weapons systems

China’s destructive laser rifle has a half-mile range

Explaining the ZKZM 500

BY JEFFREY LIN AND P.W. SINGER | PUBLISHED JUL 6, 2018

The ZKZM-500 consists on two important components- the laser (likely consisting of solid state lasers, usually fiber optics doped with rare earth materials), and its lithium battery, which account for most of its weight. Note the digital counter built into the stock, likely to display remaining battery power, or possibly to adjust the power level of each shot. ZKZM Laser

 
 

Chinese scientists have stolen the world’s first destructive, man-portable laser weapon. However, there is more to the story of this cool looking, but “less than lethal” directed energy device.

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Proof

Responding to media skepticism, ZKZM Laser released a video of the ZKZM-500 on a rooftop range, burning targets like this piece of cardboard, from at least a couple hundred feet away.

The laser rifle is the ZKZM-500, developed by Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics in Xian, Shaanxi. It’s manufactured by the Institute’s subsidiary, ZKZM Laser. Weighing at 6 pounds (about the weight of a typical assault rifle), the ZKZM-500 has a range of 2,600 feet. The ZKZM-500 uses a lithium battery with enough power for 1000 two second shots (keep in mind, those 1000 shots may not be at full power). According to Institute designers, its laser is powerful enough to instantly scar human skin and tissue. It can also ignite clothing, knock a small drone out of the sky, or even ignite a fuel tank. That would place its power output around 100-500 watts (most surgical lasers top out at 100 watts).

Garbage Duty

Chinese utility workers aim a destructive laser to burn away some red colored fabric that got entangled with the powerlines (apparently none of China’s famous flamethrower quadcopters were available).

Official government state that the ZKZM-500 would be primarily used for crowd control by the People’s Armed Police. Akin to the US Active Denial System, the laser power could be adjusted to simply cause protesters intense pain instead of immolating them.However, a Beijing police officer told the South China Morning Post that destructive lasers were sadistic and counterproductive for crowd control.

Laser Submachine Gun?

The laser rifle offered by Chengdu Hengan Police Equipment Manufacturing Company to Chinese police forces has an effective range of only 150 meters, but claims that its batteries hold enough juice for 10,000 shots (though the 10,000 is unlikely to be the full power shots capable of igniting clothing and other flammables).

Chinese special forces might be more receptive customers of the ZKZM-500. Its laser beam is invisible and silent, making it a good choice to stealthily detonate enemy explosives and bombs. It can also take aim at fuel tanks on targets like enemy missile launchers, fuel depots, and taxiing aircraft. Its stealth characteristics also mean that the ZKZM-500 can quikcly disable enemy personnel, like hostage takers, or destroy CCTV cameras and other perimeter sensors. However, the ZKZM-500 isn’t powerful enough to replace sniper rifles for long distance shots.

WJG-2002

Chinese special forces are likely to be the current users of Chinese blinding lasers. This WJG-2002, seen here at an arms expo, is an older model that may have not been fielded.

The ZKZM-500 has plenty of Chinese predecessors in directed energy weapons. Chinese police and soldiers have long been equipped with ‘dazzler’ laser rifles. These include PY132A, WGJ-2002 and BBQ-905, which are designed to target the optical imagers and sensors on enemy vehicles, aircraft and drones (sinceChina’s signed the United Nations Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, which bans the use of laser weapons that cause permanent damage to human eyes). Improvements in power storage and laser efficiency, such as newer lithium batteries and solid-state lasers, are what have made the ZKZM-500 more powerful than its predecessors.

Silent Hunter

The Silent Hunter laser is powerful enough to cut through light vehicle armor at up to a kilometer away, making you wonder if China already has more powerful laser weapons only for domestic use.Other larger destructive Chinese lasers include the Low Altitude Guard II and Silent Hunter, the later which can burn through vehicle light armor from a kilometer away.

Still Science

The PLA is most likely not going to deploy augmented elite infantry with lasers to the South China Sea beaches any time soon, but as laser technology improves, even future infantry will have more powerful, and possibly lethal, directed energy weapons.

We are not in the world of Star Wars yet, but China’s work show that some of the imagined world of laser weapons may not stay science fiction forever.

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Peter Warren Singer is a strategist and senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He has been named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues. He was also dubbed an official “Mad Scientist” for the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command. Jeffrey is a national security professional in the greater D.C. area. They both are Associates with the U.S. Air Force University’s China Aerospace Studies Institute.

Trudeau caught out by China ship deal; Conservatives vow to end it

Trudeau caught out by China ship deal; Conservatives vow to end it

PUBLISHED AUGUST 25, 2021

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China Merchants Industry’s Jinling shipyard was subcontracted to build a 200-metre vessel for Marine Atlantic by 2024.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau caught distancing the Liberal government from a $100-million contract under which a Chinese state-owned shipyard will build a passenger ferry for a federal 'Crown corporation', a deal the Conservative Party vows to cancel if elected.

The Globe and Mail reported on Wednesday that a huge state-owned shipyard in China is building a 1,000-passenger ferry that Marine Atlantic Inc. will charter over the objections of Canada’s shipbuilding industry and at a time when two Canadians have spent 990 days in Chinese prisons as victims of what Ottawa has called “hostage diplomacy.”

At a campaign event in Vancouver, Mr. Trudeau feigned that he was troubled by the deal, declined to say whether his government would cancel it.

“We are concerned with this situation,” Mr. Trudeau said. He added  as usual, that his goal is for federal government purchasing to “align with our values.”

Conservative MP Pierre Paul-Hus, however said his party under Erin O’Toole would scrap the contract.

“This is unacceptable, and a Conservative government will immediately cancel the deal and ensure the ferry is built in Canada,” he said.

Marine Atlantic awarded a $100-million, five-year contract to charter a ferry to Sweden’s Stena North Sea Ltd. in late July. The company subcontracted construction of the 200-metre vessel to China Merchants Industry’s Jinling shipyard for delivery in 2024.

Chinese state-owned shipbuilder tapped to supply ferry for Crown corporation as Canadians remain jailed

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The Crown corporation has an option to buy the "Made in China" vessel from Stena North Sea at the end of the five-year charter. The ferry will operate between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.

The heavily subsidized CMI has also scooped up other Canadian business. CMI’s Jinling Shipyard recently won a $20-million contract to supply the Northwest Territories with four double-hulled barges.

Parliament has declared China has committed genocide against its Muslim Uyghur minority, and the federal government has accused Beijing of “hostage diplomacy” in jailing Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig on what it says are trumped-up charges of spying.

The Trudeau government said this year it has changed how it deals with China over Beijing’s more assertive authoritarianism and coercive diplomacy.

Marine Atlantic reports to Parliament through the Minister of Transport, who also appoints members to the board of the Crown corporation. A spokesman for Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said the minister had no role in green-lighting the ferry contract. “The minister did not approve the contract. ... The minister was informed by the department as the procurement process was completed,” Shane McCloskey, director of policy for Mr. Alghabra, said in an e-mailed statement.

Mr. Trudeau tried to shift the blame on Wednesday to former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, out of office for more than five years, saying his predecessor should have made it a requirement of his national shipbuilding strategy in 2010 for Crown corporations to buy Canadian-built vessels.

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said at a news conference on a Quebec City boardwalk across the river from the Davie Shipyard in Lévis that it is troubling when such work is sent abroad. The Bloc has often argued Davie among three major shipyards in Canada has been unfairly overlooked for federal shipbuilding contracts.

“In general, when a given territory has three shipyards – of which the biggest, the most effective, the most prestigious, and the most mistreated is in [the Quebec City region] – it is always embarrassing to give out these contracts abroad,” Mr. Blanchet said.

Alex Vicefield, chairman and chief executive officer of Inocea Group, which owns Davie Shipyard, has said there was no reason to have the passenger ferry built outside Canada.

“In fact, the construction of this ferry would be simpler than all the major programs which Davie has undertaken over the past nine years,” he said. “Obviously, the same goes for the barges, too, which are very basic structures.”

Colin Cooke, president of the Canadian Marine Industries and Shipbuilding Association, told The Globe in comments published Wednesday that he finds it “very difficult to stomach” that the federal contract was approved when Mr. Kovrig and Mr. Spavor are incarcerated in China. They have spent 990 days in Chinese prisons with the lights on 24 hours a day.

China seized Mr. Kovrig and Mr. Spavor in December, 2018, shortly after Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., was arrested in Canada on a U.S. extradition warrant on allegations of bank fraud relating to violations of U.S. sanctions against Iran.

Mr. Cooke also questioned whether Marine Atlantic’s competitive procurement process was fair, because Stena North Sea can take advantage of China’s heavily subsidized shipping industry to reduce expenses. He said a cost-effective way could have been found to build the ferry in Canada.

“The vessels could be built stem to stern by Canadian facilities, by Canadian workers for Canadian use,” Mr. Cooke said. “We have the design know-how. We’ve got the components manufacturing and we have the yards.”

The only part of the ferry that would have to be bought outside Canada would be the engines, although Mr. Cooke said they could come from the United States, Europe and Japan.

Tara Laing, a spokesperson for Marine Atlantic, said the ferry contract was open to domestic and international bidders and was overseen by an independent fairness monitor. Ms. Laing said the fact a Chinese state-owned conglomerate would build the ship was not a factor in the Crown corporation’s decision.

“The ownership of the shipyard selected by Stena was not considered within the procurement process,” Ms. Laing said in an e-mailed statement.

CMI is one of several Chinese state-owned companies that are increasingly dominant in the global shipping industry. China controls the world’s second-largest shipping fleet by gross tonnes, and has constructed more than one-third of the world’s vessels.

Mr. Blanchet said Canada will still have to trade with China but find a way to show it is not powerless – and that Mr. Trudeau has failed at that.

“We won’t stop trading with China. The little puppy Canada is not going to hurt the big bear China – that’s not going to happen,” he said. “And politically, Canada has to demonstrate it is not quite so weak in relation to the Chinese giant, but Mr. Trudeau has been totally ineffective in demonstrating that.”

 

The use of flammable cladding manufactured in China: A site study 2020

March, 2020

Professor Peter Hughes, Henan Polytechnic University, School of Civil Engineering, reports on flammable cladding fires around the world and hones in on fatal fires in China.

Notwithstanding subsequent tragedies across the world, some countries, even in 2020, continue to use unsafe inappropriate construction methods and flammable Asian materials. Flames recently spread across ‘flammable cladding’ in a fire at University of Bolton in the north west of England. The fire tore through a block of student apartments on November 15, 2019. It did so by “crawling up the cladding like it was nothing,” according to eyewitnesses. Some 40 fire vehicles and 200 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze at the six-storey building. Flames poured from the windows on the top floors of a building known as The Cube on Bradshawgate, in the centre of the city.

The horrific Grenfell Tower fire in London in June 2017 and the 2014 fire at the Lacrosse apartment building in Melbourne’s Docklands in Australia, along with many others have highlighted the fire safety risks arising from the use of combustible Asian cladding.

China Accuses USA Of Making The SARS Cov2 Virus

China Accuses USA Of Making The SARS Cov2 Virus

September 3, 2021

This is a really interesting development, a Statement by the Chinese Embassy in the United States on the “COVID-19 Origin-Tracing” Report of the U.S. Side, which also came out from the site of the embassy in Australia as well.

Here’s an excerpt from the press release:

In addition, Wuhan Institute of Virology has received two visits from WHO experts and the WHO-China joint study report has reached the clear conclusion that introduction through a lab accident in Wuhan is “extremely unlikely”.

If the US insists on the lab leak theory, isn’t it necessary for the U.S. side to invite WHO experts to Fort Detrick and the University of North Carolina (UNC) for investigation?

Fort Detrick has long been engaged in coronavirus research and modification. After its shutdown in 2019 because of serious safety incidents, disease with symptoms similar to COVID-19 broke out in the U.S. The team of Professor Ralph Baric in the UNC possesses extremely mature capability in synthesizing and modifying coronavirus.

From January 2015 to June 2020, the UNC reported to the National Institutes of Health 28 lab incidents involving genetically engineered organisms. Six of them involved coronaviruses including SARS, MERS and SARS-CoV-2. However, instead of finding out what happened in its own labs first, the U.S. keeps slinging mud at others.

China’s position on global origin-tracing is consistent and clear. This is a matter of science. China always supports and will continue to participate in science-based origin-tracing. What we are against is political manipulation, presumption of guilt and putting blame on others. Any Phase II origins study must be a comprehensive extension of Phase I and conducted in multiple places and countries to find out the truth.

The report by the U.S. intelligence community has not produced an exact answer the U.S. side wants. Continuing such an effort will also be in vain, because its subject is simply non-existent and anti-science.

Chinese Embassy

So let me just go over what the Chinese embassy press release said again, this virus was from nature, but somewhere between 2015 and mid 2020, they were having incidents with SARS Cov2 in a lab in the USA, in Fort Detrick, with a guy called Ralph Baric.

Yeah, this is exactly what everyone who knew what was going on has been saying for the last 18 months, while getting brutally censored, and it’s clear they’re lying, and accusing the US of lying, while at the same time admitting the truth.

It’s just pathetic at this point, and I don’t even know what the motivation is, they planned the “lab leak conspiracy theory” in the SPARS 2025-2028 Johns Hopkins document from 2017.

So, maybe it wasn’t a leak, because they planned to release it, or maybe the virus doesn’t even exist. Those were always the only two possibilities I was working with, they’re scum either way.

The Chinese accused them of faking the chemical weapons attack in Syria to justify war, but of course the Chinese don’t look any better themselves with this press release.

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Anyway, I was just reading an article about the long history of the Khazarian mafia, a bunch of literal Satan worshiping pedophiles who apparently control almost everything.

That might explain things even further, if you believe the story, and I have no reason not to at this point, they’re not just criminals, they’re lunatic psychopaths who actually worship Satan, Lucifer, Baal, Moloch.

It makes more sense all the time, and it’s actually becoming more confirmed all the time, just how bad these people actually are, It would be fair to say there is a little bit of both here.

WHAT! Chinese state-owned shipbuilder tapped to supply ferry for Crown corporation as Canadians remain jailed

Chinese state-owned shipbuilder tapped to supply ferry for Crown corporation as Canadians remain jailed

 

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PUBLISHED AUGUST 25, 2021

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A partially built ship at the Jinling shipyard in China on July 27, 2010.

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A huge state-owned shipyard in China is building a 1,000-passenger ferry for use by a federal Crown corporation over the objections of Canada’s shipbuilding industry and at a time when two Canadians have spent 989 days in Chinese prisons as victims of what Ottawa has called “hostage diplomacy.”

Marine Atlantic Inc. awarded a $100-million, five-year ferry charter contract in late July to Sweden’s Stena North Sea Ltd., which subcontracted construction of the 200-metre vessel to China Merchants Industry’s Jinling shipyard for delivery in 2024.

The Crown corporation has an option to buy the vessel from Stena North Sea at the end of the five-year charter. The ferry will operate between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.

The heavily subsidized CMI has also scooped other Canadian business. CMI’s Jinling Shipyard recently won a $20-million contract to supply the Northwest Territories with four double-hulled barges. Most of the bill was paid by the federal government.

Colin Cooke, president of the Canadian Marine Industries and Shipbuilding Association, said he finds it “very difficult to stomach” that the federal contract was approved when Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig are incarcerated in China. They have spent 989 days in Chinese prisons with the lights on 24 hours a day.

Verdict against Michael Spavor gives some hope for future release, but also shows Canada’s powerlessness in the face of injustice

The ‘hostage diplomacy’ connecting Canada and China

China arrested the two men in December, 2018, shortly after Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., was detained in Canada on a U.S. extradition warrant over bank fraud relating to violations of U.S. sanctions against Iran. Canada has accused Beijing of hostage diplomacy.

Mr. Cooke also questioned whether Marine Atlantic’s competitive procurement process was fair, because Stena North Sea can take advantage of China’s heavily subsidized shipping industry to reduce expenses. He said a cost-effective solution could have been found to build the ferry in Canada.

“The vessels could be built stem to stern by Canadian facilities, by Canadian workers for Canadian use,” Mr. Cooke said. “We have the design know-how. We’ve got the components manufacturing and we have the yards.”

The only part of the ferry that would have to be purchased outside Canada would be the engines, although Mr. Cooke said they could come from the United States, Europe and Japan.

Tara Laing, a spokesperson for Marine Atlantic, said the ferry contract was open to domestic and international bidders and was overseen by an independent fairness monitor. Ms. Laing said the fact that a Chinese state-owned conglomerate would build the ship was not a factor in the Crown corporation’s decision.

“The ownership of the shipyard selected by Stena was not considered within the procurement process,” Ms. Laing said in an e-mailed statement.

The Trudeau government said this year it has changed how it deals with China because of Beijing’s more assertive authoritarianism and coercive diplomacy.

“China of 2021 isn’t the same China of 2016, and Canada’s approach needs to evolve with an evolving China,” Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau told a Parliamentary committee in June.

Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong accused the Liberals of taking a “business as usual” approach to the Chinese government despite the increasing challenge Beijing represents to Canadian values and interests.

“It’s unbelievable that the federal government would contract directly or indirectly with a Chinese shipbuilder given the deteriorating relationship,” Mr. Chong said. “And secondly, it’s unacceptable, given how China is unfairly competing in global shipping through subsidies.”

Alex Vicefield, the chairman and chief executive officer of Inocea Group, which owns Davie Shipyard in Quebec City, argued there was no reason to have the passenger ferry built outside Canada.

“In fact, the construction of this ferry would be simpler than all the major programs which Davie has undertaken over the past nine years,” he said. “Obviously, the same goes for the barges, too, which are very basic structures.”

CMI is one of several Chinese state-owned companies that are increasingly dominant in the global shipping industry. China controls the world’s second-largest shipping fleet by gross tonnes, and has constructed more than one-third of the world’s vessels.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies says China has funnelled US$132-billion of financial support into its shipping and shipbuilding sector between 2010 and 2018. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “Made in China 2025” strategic plan to further develop the country’s manufacturing industry designates maritime equipment and high-tech vessel manufacturing as one of 10 priority sectors.

“The Chinese state provides support in numerous direct and indirect ways, including subsidies in cash payments, cheap financing and fundraising, tax incentives and concessions, barriers for foreign firms, state-directed industrial consolidation, forced technology transfer, and intellectual property theft, among others,” the Washington-based think tank said in a July, 2020, study of China’s state-backed shipping industry.

“Why would we want to give them business when there are lots of other companies and lots of other countries that we have much better relationships with,” said retired Royal Canadian Navy vice-admiral Mark Norman. “We need to keep this work in Canada.”

Mr. Norman, a former vice-chief of the defence staff, said it’s disturbing that Marine Atlantic appeared not to consider the cases of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig and Beijing’s increasing belligerence.