A company linked to the Chinese government is contracted to monitor the border; US protest
United States authorities alerted Mexico of the national security risks involved in buying border monitoring equipment manufactured by Nuctech, a company linked to the Chinese government. “They have deficiencies in detection capabilities, which could create opportunities for exploitation by the Chinese government,” warned an intelligence report sent by the State Department to Sedena.
Meanwhile, Ambassador Ken Salazar expressed the “growing concern” of the US over the acquisition of these monitoring systems. Despite the alerts, Mexico has already installed dozens of Chinese equipment in customs and ports, according to documents obtained by MCCI
The Mexican government installed scanning and surveillance equipment from a company linked to the Chinese government at border points, despite warnings from US authorities of a potential threat to national security and a history of corruption by the supplying company.
An intelligence report sent on April 22 by the State Department to the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) warned that the Nuctech company, a manufacturer of border scanning and surveillance equipment, had links with the Chinese government.
“We assess that it is very likely that Nuctech has a close and long-standing relationship with the Chinese government to promote Nuctech’s business interests and develop scanning and detection systems on behalf of the Chinese government,” the key points of the confidential report warn.
“Nuctech has engaged in and will likely continue to engage in illegal business practices including corruption, bribery and dumping to gain an unfair advantage in the marketplace,” reads the document, which cited past corrupt practices in countries in Africa, Asia and Europe as background. .
“Nuctech’s scanning and detection systems have deficiencies in detection capabilities, which could create opportunities for exploitation by the Chinese government,” the counterintelligence report said.
Ten days after this alert, the US ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, sent a letter to Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, in which he expressed “the growing concern” of the US government over the acquisition of Chinese equipment.
In the letter, dated May 2, Salazar warned the López Obrador government about the possible risks for the bilateral relationship that the purchase of scanning and security equipment from China, for the detection of drugs and weapons, in ports could bring. ports, the Felipe Ángeles Airport (AIFA) and the Dos Bocas refinery.
“I would like to communicate our growing concern about the recent announcements by the Government of Mexico regarding its plans to acquire scanning and security equipment from certain Chinese state entities (PRC) for the use of officials of the National Customs Agency, the Secretariat of National Defense and the Secretariat of the Navy”, refers to the letter from Salazar. “No Chinese scanning equipment met the quality control standards of the United States.”
In his letter, the Ambassador exhorted the Mexican Foreign Minister: “We encourage you to safeguard Mexico’s own security and preserve the potential gains from the exchange of bilateral information to improve border management by acquiring security equipment from proven and reliable providers.”
Although the ambassador does not mention in the letter the name of the Chinese company with which the Mexican government would carry out the acquisitions of equipment, documents and communications that emerge from the hacking of Sedena by the Guacamaya collective, they reveal that since April 22 the government The American had alerted the Mexican about the threats of the Nuctech company’s scanning and detection systems and its relationship with the Chinese Government.
A confidential report from the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security of the United States, sent on that date by the Border Security coordinator of the Embassy in Mexico, Francisco Lage, warned of the close relationship of the Nuctech company with the government. as well as deficiencies in its detection systems, illegal and unfair business practices, and concerns about individual privacy.
The report addressed to the Sedena Liaison Office with the US Department of Defense, and also sent to the Customs Coordination Center, also warned that Nuctech’s scanning and detection systems related to Covid-19 could represent a threat to individual privacy due to the facial recognition technology it employs.
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Mexico received the equipment free from China.
ReplyDeleteAMLO WAS KISSING THEIR ASS ON HIS MORNING INFO SEE SESSIONS
DeleteWhat the fuck!?! Come on no one can be that naive. China knows what it's doing, Mexico knows what it's doing. We've had the gloves on for to long it's time for them to come off, in my opinion it's far passed time. Unfortunately we will continue this partisanship bickering when we need to remember United we stand divided we fall. Our enemies have been sowing the seeds to our destruction and they are about to sprout. It's time to wake up
DeleteOf course to spy.
DeleteMost are United you watch too much tv
DeleteKeep in mind that in 2018, China was nice enough to gift the African Union with a new $200 million building that serves essentially as it's capitol. High level talks between the various members are held in this building.
DeleteAfter they occupied the building they found bugs from one end to another and all information on their computers were routed directly to China. They had to replace all of their computers with new computers that were encrypted. Yes, I would say that the Chinese know what they are doing.
Many people get suckered into buying a service that they don't need by the word "free".
I recall a neighbor that won a "free" home security system after putting his name into a raffle. He had to sign up for 3 years worth of monitoring and pass a credit check to receive his "free" home security system. They wouldn't cancel his service after 3 years and his lawyer learned that everyone who put their names into the raffle had "won" a "free" security system.
I will gift the Mexican government a "free" $1 million dollar computer system if they agree to pay me $10 million dollars a year to monitor it. I will pay Sir and Barack Caugama 200 pesos a day to monitor it and Sicario 006 to protect it. That I believe is one of the benefits to having a snake like ELMO as president. Rest assured, if ELMO agrees to pay me $10 million per year to monitor the computer system, I will become the biggest ELMO chayotero on the internet. Hey, everybody has their price. Right?
LMAO ! 006 to protect it !
DeleteYea this is a good point, well said.
12:40 Cant take seriously a comment with childish nick names on it.
DeleteYou can give more than that Detroit, a grown gentlemen.
Sicario006 for president!
DeleteSIR for President of Mexico.
DeleteHe will be my puppet, of course I have to feed him with bribes.
1:19 Because anonymous ones always tell the truth
Delete4:28 When I read "bribes" comes to my mind someone who knows shit about Mexico.
DeleteWhat would the Mexican living in USA do when USA VS MEXICO war happens? 🤔 Please Don't Tell Me You would Blast CJNG polka Songs To Terrified USA soldiers 😱
ReplyDeleteThe US armed forces has many troops of Mexican descent. I don’t understand what you mean Catalina?
DeleteYour paranoid get off those drugs, that will never happen.
DeleteWe will blast cds fake corridos
DeleteLol!
Delete04:58 the Mexican Army fights side by side with the USA 🇺🇸 Also many “American” DoD soldiers are Mexican Nationals serving the USA (a foreign country) with permission. Meaning the USA permits Mexican Citizens to serve in the USA military
Delete7:32 🎵Gira y se para la tierra si Joaquin lo ordena!!🎵🎵🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
Delete@9:31 🤣
Deleteeach, will fight on the US side by going to the movies, mexican stores and eating steaks, no hamberders...
DeleteThe Chinese are double crossers.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know Mexico had monitoring equipment on the other side of the world to watch the Chinese border.
ReplyDeleteSomebody pocketed some money so the Mexican officials bought the scanning equipment from the 99 cent store.Lol.
ReplyDeleteExactly
DeleteLet's remember that US investors offshored US jobs and whole industries and STILL OWN THEM, the US owes about 30 trillion dollars to them disguised as debt with the chinese government...
DeleteNice returns for investing Latin American satraps' drug trafficking money.
China has Mexico by the pussy i guess money does make the world go round at least till it’s all in one hand pero ni modo
ReplyDeleteI don't think China has Mexico by the pussy. If you follow everything else going on in mexico besides narco related news you'd understand that the current administration is for improving mexicos economy, education, social services and infrastructure. The mexican government is improving business relationships with countries that are willing. That means, China, Russia, France, Holland, Germany, central American countries, Brazil and Venezuela to name a few. There's nothing wrong with healthy business relationships between 2 countries. In the case of the U.S and Mexico or really, the U.S and most of Latin America, the business ties are not good.
DeleteWho the fuck actually writes these comments bro???
DeleteLike for real 🤣🤣🤣 I do live in Mexico and nothing has been better since this administration began.
Follow anything besides narco and tell me just one thing that's actually better now, this government hasn't accomplished any of the promises they made. Not just one.
10:25 Is better than previous administrations by far boy. Not sure which Mexico you referring to. Best president ever.
Delete@10:35 Yous a 🤖 fool
Delete7:59 Not even close AMLO hater.
DeleteFirst they flood the USA with meth and fentynil and now they will monitor the border. What's going on with America?
ReplyDeleteIt's looking pretty weak and desperate lately. They even have containers to fill the wall on border smh
The flow of drugs will never stop nor the fake propaganda these gringos show for every election hahaha
11:43 every government election in border states with Mexico propaganda "vote for me, I will stop the immigration from Mexico and also stop the drug flow"
Deletethat's every time and it just gets worse every time.. 😂
5:22 In that case, regulate immigrants. They are hired on the spot, thats tempting.
DeleteI read about this the other day. The major problem for the USA seemed to be that the scanned images first had to be transmitted to the company in China and of course they wouldn't be shared with USA authorities possibly causing more delays in transportation. Another issue would be the lack of the USA being able to control or sanction said company of any failures.
ReplyDelete1 billion dollars of goods are sent north by México everyday, what is AMLO thinking?
What’s the problem? Seriously? It seems to me that the U.S. wants Mexico to buy it’s equipment from us and not China. That’s all I get out of it. And if I’m wrong and there is a security threat, how does that bother the U.S. government. What ever they would see would be on the mexican side and not this side. Or am I missing something? Any enlightenment would be appreciated.
ReplyDeleteExactly
DeleteWhat a dork, if you read the article you would understand better. US is merely giving them Intel. on the equipment if they get it. China communist Country wants to be the next superpower after many years, stealing US secrets.
Delete@6:42 I did read the article you idiot. Why do you think I asked the question! And how would China steal U.S. secrets from the mexican side of the border? And the U.S. isn’t just giving Mexico a heads up. That so called intel isn’t nothing that would be hard to find out. Unjust business practices and most of the things they mention have nothing to do with security. It sounds more like they want Mexico to buy it from us instead of the Chinese. Just how they did with the processing chips. Mexico asked the U.S. for them , they wanted the technology and they bs’d them untill we finally said we weren’t going to be able to do it. South Korea comes along and Mexico asks them, they say yes and get Samsung involed and hammer out a deal and we find out and before the sign the deal the U.S sweeps in and we’re like “Wait!!! What are you doing? Don’t sign it, we’ll give it to you”, and they set up a deal with Intel and get the deal done. The government is doing that because AMLO isn’t doing what past presidents have been doing and just bow down because it’s theU.S. So the U.S. is playing hard ball for that reason and because the government doesn’t want Mexico to climb out of 3rd world country status. We’ve been benefiting for decades off that order in our relationship with them and now our political apparatus isn’t liking nor wanting Mexico to benifit from what is theirs. The politicians don’t want to loose that honey pot…You’re probably confused and have a headache from me making you think too much so I’ll end it here. But educate yourself before calling people names
Delete2:35 and 2:24
DeleteYour not on the same page. You are like a mile, can't reason with you.
The Chinese are deep in a ton of countries. They are already in the us also. They found out some Chinese companies sold parts to us phone companies that have antennas near military bases. Super cheap. They found out and tried doing a sweep of all the parts. But I’m assuming it will cost a lot in labor and us parts, so the matter hasn’t been resolved
Delete2:24 american exporters that want to export to México, BUY their shit from China, Korea or other Asian countries before exporting it to Mx, all they do is change the labels to "US Made",
Deleteand that is missiles, chips, socks, panties or potato chips, nothing is sacred anymò...
This is not that much different than the U.S setting Biochemical labs and conducting "research experiments" near U.S adversaries. Russia doesn't want that type of activity near their backyard just as the U.S doesn't want chinese surveillance near their backyard.
ReplyDeleteBiochemical weapons and surveillance equipment are to very very different things. You could do some damage with what’s in a biochemical lab and kill lots of people in a blink of an eye and do it in a stealthy manner being so close to your target. Surveillance at the border will just bore you. If you’re lucky you might catch a fight or something. Governments are not doing anything they don’t want other countries to know at the border. They don’t even cross it in a vehicle. And all they will see in the airport is a diplomat unboard a plane. That’s if the company can really see the images that the equipment catches. And I doubt that any country would let any company be able to controll the images and the time it would take to get them to the government in possession of the equipment. A country wouldn’t put authorization to see their own content in the hands of someone else, especially a country or foreign company, no matter how dumb they are.
Delete2:39 that's true that's a way off comparison. Anything to say to bash USA.
Delete11:42 That’s just Russia being Russia though. We’re just a cultural threat to them, not a mortal threat like China is to us and the rest of the world. Virtually every country should be against China at this point.
Delete@607 Lol. We are not "just a cultural threat" if you tell that to the people of those countries the U.S has invaded and destabilized for whatever made up reasons the government tells its citizens then you're going to come accross a lot of backlash.
Delete6:07 don't be surprised if China takes back territory Russia annexed
DeleteRussia is losing the war.
DeleteShould Putin go crazy.
He will send missiles to USA, even though he would not aim them at Mexico, the fallout of radio active gases, would also kill many in Mexico.
It's sad to be a Russian.
DeleteYou protest the war, they lock you up for 7 years.
8:47 the rusty russian missiles won't make it out the door, send the russians your big fat ass, they will put the lard to good use, but the US will still make them boomerang back to their heads, it is in trump's stolen intelligence papers.
DeleteLiterally fuck China. They are our biggest threat. Not Russia or North Korea or even Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. China has already crossed lines that seem almost like they’re out of a dystopian novel.
ReplyDeleteOr post apocalyptic novel.
Delete6:05 wrong, us capitalistas are the world's worst enemy on all fronts, and the US is to them just collateral damages, watch their minions, like the trumpanzee world.
DeleteI think one of the many things we will see once American liberals are ousted out of power is a change in stance against the drug war. It is no longer Mexican cartels profiting from drugs, it is now Chinese agents actively working to destabilize America. We creates these Chinese monster, and they decided to bite the hand that fed them. There is nothing the Defense industry would love more than to drop some million dollar XM9 "ninja missiles" on cartel convoys once the terrorist labels are attached.
ReplyDelete6:27 Niced cracked out post. Can I have some crack now? Christ.
Deleteit's bad when Russia wants to monitor the Ukraine/russian border but when the u.s government wants to do the same thing it's okay for the u.s.a
ReplyDeleteWTF you on drugs homie.
DeleteLOL
DeleteOh but but USA that oh oh but but USA this USA that. 11:02 is butt hurt.
DeleteLol 🤣😆 at 11:02 Butthurt!
DeleteIt’s all fun and games until the Chinese double cross you. Everyone over here is worried about the “Mexicans” when really the Chinese want to destroy and take over the world.
ReplyDeleteIn part, China wants to do it through nefarious spy organizations like the United Front Work Department and Confucius Institute.
DeleteCanada was going to use this equipment in over 170 of their embassies and consulates, but nixed the deal over concerns. Smart move.
ReplyDeleteAnd why would Mexicans think that the Chinese have the best intentions for them
ReplyDeleteWell, there are lots of reasons to avoid US too...
DeleteThe chinese are coming!
ReplyDeleteThe chinese are coming!
Better hide your cars and dogs...