I'm in a way surprised that the Netherlands still have such open relation with China after the soying and now intimidating journalists.
Will it really take until a politician (not local) in parliament gets spied / threaten until action is taken?
Will it really take until a politician (not local) in parliament gets spied / threaten until action is taken?
At minimum they should have sent a squad for the commander who ordered the firing and who is a big social media star today on Russian Telegram.
Including Putin? How would this work?
The reality is that they are extremely afraid that the flow of cheap goods from china to the population will stop I think.
If that's free trade - then I'm Santa Klaus
That’s a very different matter from the CCP stealing IP or even entire companies.
I can speak only from my experience.
In 2000s we heard that Huawei GSM is copycat of Erricson and Huawei CDMA is Qualcomm.
I had very limited experience with both GSM and CDMA switches - I saw nothing similar.
I can't say for sure about CDMA but Huawei GSM was certainly different from Erricson switches I saw
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/04/05/...
Look at what actually happened: Somebody called in a bomb threat under her name, and somebody made some fake reservations under that name at a hotel near the location they were "threatening."
...That's the sort of thing a bored teenager on 4Chan or KiwiFarms would do, without even breaking a sweat. There's nothing in the article to suggest that the Chinese government is behind this; their only action was to report the bomb threat as though it was credible. The threat itself probably came from some terminally-online, but patriotic, expat Chinese ne'er-do-well.
Are Chinese operators sophisticated enough to encourage people on 4chan/kiwifarms to do the dirty work for them?
4chan is probably an unreliable gun to trigger, but the random effects when triggered could be useful if you want to cause grief to a target.
https://thechinaproject.com/2019/11/01/inside-chinas-recentl...
Needless to say, that type of online community is virtually impossible to shut down. Shutter one site, and another will pop up. China is not at all unique in that regard: Even though it was hit with unusual and really quite severe measures in an effort to take it offline, The Daily Stormer is still going strong.
Any bored teenager with a text-to-speech app and a stolen or prepaid credit card could have pulled off the stunt mentioned in OP.