National Intelligence Law of the People's Republic of China

There is a legal engine behind it all.

China's 2017 National Intelligence Law requires its citizens and organizations to support and cooperate in state intelligence work.

The FBI has written down what that looks like on the ground.

The first step: cultivating access.

The investigation also found that the Temu app contains multiple portions of code that are recognized by cybersecurity professionals as hallmarks of spyware and malware.

China lacks data protection guarantees comparable to those in the United States, the complaint said, noting that Chinese companies are required by law, such as the two thousand seventeen National Intelligence Law, to cooperate with Chinese intelligence agencies.

In other words, it can reasonably be assumed that the data Temu is illicitly collecting from Missouri users is being sent to and used by the Chinese government, the complaint states.

Temu also failed to implement adequate age verification procedures.

The complaints also allege that TP-Link Systems' mobile apps collect sensitive consumer data, including email addresses, locations, and mobile phone identifiers, and can share it with affiliates to comply with applicable laws.

The states charge that the company fails to disclose its Chinese affiliates or their obligations under China's 2017 National Intelligence Law, which compels companies to support, assist, and cooperate with Chinese intelligence authorities.

Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers told the Epoch Times that the lawsuit aims to protect Nebraskans' privacy, security, and pocketbooks from deceit by the largest internet router company in the nation.

In truth, Its supply chain continues to be intertwined with China's state-sponsored technology ecosystem, he said.

There's also another plan or project, and this was based off of a Washington Post, a 2023 Washington Post article, about something called Project 141. where the PLA has this aspiration to create bases and logistics hubs, 10, all across the world by 2030.

So knowing those two kind of strategic plans, if you will, starting to then see certain Chinese companies, whether they be private or state-owned, but of course, because of the National Intelligence Law of 2017, right, and onward, requiring both private companies and state-owned enterprises and individuals to support the CCP during times of national security.

One can get quite concerned about an over-dependence on a Chinese company around the key port, right? So that's why, of course, the Trump administration was so adamant that C.K.

Hutchinson despite being a private Hong Kong-based company, that it was untenable for them to be able to manage two key ports on the entry and exit point of the Panama Canal.