Straight News: Following the "Snowden Gate", a new round of "Danish Gate" of the US Security Agency eavesdropping on allies has struck. Do you think that after more than a decade, why has the vices of the United States not changed?
Special commentator Wu Jian: In the 30 years after the Cold War, the United States has always maintained a super monitoring project called "Stellar Wind", and among its sub-projects, the most familiar is the "Prism" exposed by Snowden, but several other names, such as "main road", "dock", "nuclear", etc., are not clear to anyone today, but from the report of "Danish Gate", it is obvious that this round of surveillance against Europe is also one of the sub-projects of "Stellar Wind".
At present, under the framework of "stellar wind", the US Security Agency has at least the speed of real-time eavesdropping and eavesdropping, mentioning the speed of 10 to the 10th power, what is the concept, that is, the United States Security can not only synchronously read other people's e-mails, listen to other people's conversations, but also synchronize classification and sorting, and launch such as inserting fraudulent information in near real time, coordinating joint actions with other countries' departments, and so on.
There is a saying in the US security community that "we try to eliminate darkness, but in the end we are creating darkness", that is, driven by "technological fundamentalism", we finally regard "technological superiority" as the power to do whatever we want, and then we turn ourselves into "demons". Taking the "Danish Gate" as an example, the Danish side mainly provides the United States with the opportunity to contact the trans-Baltic sea communication cable, so as to monitor the dynamics of Norway, Germany, France and even the neutral country of Sweden. If it is finally confirmed, it will answer the question of the United States defeating the Swedes in arms sales to India, Brazil, Poland and other countries, because in these contracts, the Swedes give customers better conditions than the United States.
Another point to emphasize is that as relative power declines, the more selfish and more "America First" United States will use surveillance measures to the extreme, and the US government will become less and less "guilty". By July last year, at least 60 court orders had been reportedly received by U.S. Security, approved to monitor international organizations including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Union, the United Nations, and at least 38 friendly countries, including Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Mexico, and Cyprus, and that intelligence data was the main source of Biden's daily must-see Intelligence Bulletin. From this point of view, the surveillance of American Security cannot be stopped, but has intensified, because it is part of the US hegemony.
Straight News: The United States uses Denmark to eavesdrop on Europe, once again exposing the "plasticity" of the transatlantic friendship between the United States and Europe.
Special commentator Wu Jian: The United States Security wants to monitor the world, it is impossible to rely on itself, and it is necessary to come up with sweetness to find accomplices, or to pinch each other's "hands-off skills", especially the Americans have always "picked soft persimmons and pinched", in Europe, they often choose "hub small countries" as "strategic eyes and ears", so as to "control the surface with points". Like Denmark, don't look small, but control the throat of the Baltic Sea, and it is the suzerainty of Greenland, which is the transit point of many Western shipping, aviation and even communications, and it is obvious that the tentacles can be put here with half the effort.
According to the "New York Times" earlier disclosure, the United States Ann with the Danish Defense Intelligence Agency and even more than 80 multinational companies to form a "strategic partnership" to obtain the qualification to access user e-mail at will, like a European engineer disclosed that he kept a "safe room" in the landing base station of a submarine cable, specially placed monitoring equipment, and it is rumored that these monitoring equipment played an important role in the United States to attack the "North Stream-2" natural gas pipeline project of Russian-European cooperation.
Europe knows the dirty things of the United States, but why is it mostly swallowing? The key is that Europe is an "economic giant, political dwarf, military dwarf", when the United States dominates European defense, dominates European trade, financial markets, especially after Brexit, Europe's weakness is exposed.
In fact, from a rational point of view, under the exposure of the United States' unscrupulous eavesdropping, Europe's rational choice should not refuse China's technical cooperation in 5G communications and other aspects, blindly following the United States to "run to the black", just as the former US National Intelligence Director Clapper earlier hinted that behind the United States hunting down And killing Chinese high-tech communication companies, not only commercial interests, but also intelligence needs, because China's program control machines and other equipment are not allowed to set up "secret doors" for such institutions as the United States. This is not to say that China will provide Europe with a "security solution", but more "security options", the key is whether the Europeans themselves are willing to change this situation of being "transparent" by the United States.
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said that the United States, in the name of a free and market economy, wantonly undermines the rules-based world system, and "the danger of the United States is to give orders to friends and allies, to prescribe what they can and cannot do politically and economically, which means that he wants not a partner, but a servant." The "Europeanist" strongly called on the European Union to show "sharp edges and corners" to the United States if Europe does not want to be the "banana republic of the 21st century for the United States." He made it clear that the power structure of the world today is changing, "on one side is still a powerful United States, on the other side is a powerful Asia promoted by China", "who can stand among them?" Not Germany, not France, but a united Europe. If Europe does not unite, we will only be able to act as third-rate players between these two poles. ”
Specific to the eavesdropping problem exposed by the "Danish Gate", this fully exposes the fragility of Europe in the digital age, especially no country in Europe has a medium- and long-term policy like China or even the United States, and no European country has a truly representative national political party, resulting in the strengthening of political marginal forces such as the left and right, which means that Europe simply cannot come up with operational, targeted and lasting digital strategies and policies. I think this is the most important problem that Europe should think clearly after the "Danish Gate".
Author: Wu Jian, Special Commentator of Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News.