Senate report says US may lose ‘cyber domain’ to China
- The 58-page report is the latest glaring sign of the distrust toward China that now runs rampant in Washington, across the entire political spectrum
- New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez warns of a ‘global dystopian future, dominated by a hi-tech, totalitarian state’
A new US Senate report warned that the US has not done nearly enough to challenge Beijing’s position as a leading tech superpower.
“Three and a half years into the Trump administration, the United States is now on the precipice of losing the future of the cyber domain to China,” said the report, published on Tuesday.
“If China continues to perfect the tools of digital authoritarianism and is able to effectively implement them both domestically and abroad, then China, not the United States and its allies, will shape the digital environment in which most of the world operates.”
The 58-page report, written by the Democratic Party staff on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is the latest glaring sign of the distrust toward China that now runs rampant in Washington, across the entire political spectrum.
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New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the committee who commissioned the report, warned of a “global dystopian future, dominated by a hi-tech, totalitarian state”.
