Who Is Lying? -Zhenhua Heavy Industry/ZPMC’s Cyber Security Threat
As for the American House of Representatives' concerns about the cyber security threat likely posed by Zhenhua Heavy Industry, also known as ZPMC, of China, ZPMC denied it and said "these reports can easily mislead the public without sufficient factual review".
"https://www.voanews.com/a/china-s-shanghai-zhenhua-denies-posing-cybersecurity-risk-to-us-ports/7521758.html"
On Feb. 23, 2024, China's official spokesperson Mao Ning called these reports "nonsense/无稽之谈".
"https://www.mfa.gov.cn/web/wjdt_674879/fyrbt_674889/202402/t20240223_11249144.shtml"
Let's take a factual review.
On Jan. 23, 2023, an author called himself "通文解武" meaning "good at both literature and military" posted an article on China's social media 网易/NetEase："How Strong Is Zhenhua Heavy Industry(ZPMC)? Building warships in Europe and the US, with two US Presidents' Endorsement".
The article begins with this: "For China's infrastructure, the most glorious achievement is not how many bridges or buildings it has built, but found a new way to control European and American 'military technology'!"
"https://www.163.com/dy/article/HQ5B3S0H05436B31.html"
As for the "US Presidents' endorsement", it's the CCP's sly "wisdom" that no decent people will appreciate it. It refers to an unexpected episode during President Obama's speech at Port Miami, when the wind blew the American flag, it revealed the ZPMC logo. The video was then propagated by the CCP in China and got hundreds of millions of views.
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kExxiGpjgVI"
The article is very CCP-wolf-warrior style, reflecting the CCP's double-face personality, in my opinion. Here is how it interpreted Governor Larry Hogan's excitement about welcoming four Neo-Panamax container cranes from ZPMC: "because the US can't make it, only China can make it!"
"https://www.163.com/dy/article/HQ5B3S0H05436B31.html"
"https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/596159716"
ZPMC itself also demonstrated its CCP-wolf-warrior characteristics by introducing itself as "US Navy's long term partner" on its Russian website and put "US Navy" in yellow and bold. As per the author, ZPMC is doing so for a political purpose: emphasizing the "double-standard behavior of the American Military".
"https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/596159716"
"https://www.douyin.com/shipin/7327971351430531135"
Back to the question in this blog's title, the article that is published on two mainstream social media websites of China: 网易/NetEase and 知乎/Zhihu admitted that "after years of hard work, ZPMC has cleverly integrated into the US military industry and plays now a pivotal role in the construction of large US warships and of aircraft carriers."
"https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/596159716"
"https://www.163.com/dy/article/HQ5B3S0H05436B31.html"
The article further threatened the US:" without Zhenhua's heavy equipment, US aircraft carriers wouldn't be able to leave homes..."
"https://www.163.com/dy/article/HQ5B3S0H05436B31.html"
The article also mocked the UK by saying "in China's eyes, the secret of British aircraft carriers is no secret" because ZPMC's cranes play a key role in the construction process of aircraft carriers and only Chinese engineers can handle certain key assembly work.
"https://www.163.com/dy/article/HQ5B3S0H05436B31.html"
At the end of the article, we understand what "state-owned" means to a Chinese company like ZPMC: to serve the CCP's Global Hegemony Dream: "wherever large warships are, there must be giant gantry cranes from ZPMC of China" and a quote from "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu: "defeat the enemy without firing".
If the military ambition behind ZPMC is not clear enough to you, the following words makes no doubt about the threat posed by ZPMC: "in the complex and ever-changing international competition, and amid the heavy blockades of the Western world, if China engages in an arms race with others, it will only end of being the Soviet Union, which is the worst. Our ancestors told us how to defeat the enemy: compete with better strategy: when your ports are full of my port machinery, when your revitalization depends on my infrastructure support, do you dare to fight me?"
"https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/596159716"
Last and also important, according a document from ZPMC's website, ZPMC plays a key role in China's Belt and Road Initiative:
"https://cn.zpmc.com/images/culture/book1.pdf"
We thank the CCP wolf warrior's article to tell the military ambition behind ZPMC that was denied by the CCP officials. Let me repeat again, there is no "candid" in the CCP's dictionary, saying one thing and doing another is in the CCP's DNA, be careful.
