The Chinese Super Technology that is Terrifying the United States
A mad conflict between Beijing and Washington led the United States to impose economic sanctions on Chinese giant companies, in an attempt to slow down China's supersonic weapons program
Washington is seeking to disrupt the high-computing technology that characterizes these Chinese companies, by owning a group of the fastest computers in the world, which enabled them to achieve a huge technological breakthrough, and put the United States and the European Union in a constant anxiety
In March 2021, China announced a 6.8 percent increase in its military budget for the year 2021, among continued tension with the United States over Taiwan and the South China Sea
As China continues to rise, it is working to improve the wages of the military, especially to attract highly qualified people to the army, and to use giant companies to defend its borders with more expensive and more efficient weapons.
Weapon of 'Sanctions'
In a development of the conflict between the United States and China, on April 8, 2021, the US Department of Commerce included 7 Chinese technology companies specializing in high-speed and high-speed computing devices in the "blacklist" because of their support for the Chinese army, which Washington considered a threat to American national security.
"These sanctions aim to prevent China from benefiting from American technologies to support (global) destabilizing efforts through military modernization," US Trade Secretary Gina Raymondo said in a statement :
"Supercomputing capabilities are vital to the development of many modern weapons and national security systems, if not most of them, such as nuclear weapons and hypersonic weapons," she added.
The most prominent companies and targets of the sanctions were the Tianjin Vitium Information Technology Company, also known as Vitium, as well as the Shanghai High Performance Integrated Circuit Design Center and Sunway Microelectronics.
Other entities covered by the sanctions included the branches of the National Center for Supercomputing, which are the National Jing'an Center, Shenzhen National Center, Wuxi National Center and Zhengzhou National Center, all of whom work in the field of supercomputing.
These computers have many civilian uses, and they are very important for weapons design, especially the design of advanced weapons, nuclear weapons, electronic missiles, missiles, and even hypersonic missiles.
China is far ahead of the rest of the countries in terms of the number of supercomputers on its soil, and the United States is competing in that, which made it a threatening power to Washington in that field .
The Speed of Sound
One of the most blacklisted and sanctioned companies was Vitium, a Chinese semiconductor company that designs high-performance microprocessors.
Founded in 2012, as a branch of the China Electronics Corporation, Vitium is closely related to the development of the Chinese People's Army, which has used Vitium microprocessors for a supercomputer in China's largest aerodynamic research complex, and which researches hypersonic weapons.
This is not the first time that Vitium has entered into a series of US sanctions on Chinese companies. In 2015, the US administration, during the Obama era, began to impose sanctions on entities associated with high-performance computing for the Chinese army, establishing the National University of Defense Technology and the National Center. For supercomputing in Tianjin "on the list of banned entities, both of which are closely related to Vitium."
In January 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Tianjin, which is 70 miles from Beijing and home to Vitium, stressing the company's importance to the country's "local innovation" efforts.
On April 8, 2021, after the issuance of US sanctions, Vitium officially renamed itself, becoming the information technology company "Vivetec".
The expert in the field of communications, and a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the United States of America, Dr. Nael Al-Shafei commented on the matter on his Facebook page.
Al-Shafei said: "Vitium is working on building the first (Exa computer), that is, a computer capable of performing one million trillion calculations per second, because this computer, in addition to its civilian uses, will be able to design advanced weapons, through which the basic fluid dynamics calculations for designing missiles and submarines are possible." .
He added: "America was at the top of the list of the fastest supercomputers in the world until 2009 when the Chinese (Tian He) computer, which was based on American Intel processors, removed it, and continued to top the list until 2018 when (Tian He) announced its intention to replace Intel with a local processor, so America banned exports to it.
Frightening Technology
What worries the United States the most about the huge Chinese boom in the field of microcomputing is the Chinese giant, "Tian Hei-2", which means "Milky Way 2", which was developed by the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, China.
In June 2013, Tian Hei-2 was named the world's fastest computer in the "Top 500" list.
According to what was reported by the Chinese magazine "China Daily" on August 15, 2018, China owns 45 percent of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world, in addition to its ranking of two of the top ten, according to the fifty-second edition of the "Top 500" list for the classification of the fastest computers. Globally giant, issued by the University of Texas, USA.
The magazine reported that "China has expanded its share in the global list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, as the number of supercomputers installed in China has risen to 227 now, which represents 45.4 percent of the global total, according to the classification."
"In contrast, the number of supercomputers belonging to the United States continues to decline, reaching its lowest level ever," she added.
On April 10, 2021, the Washington Post published a report in which it said: "China is adopting advanced weapons systems, capable of one day targeting US aircraft carriers (or Taiwan)."
She stressed that "Beijing is developing missiles at a secret military facility in southwestern China, based on the huge computer used in the manufacture of weapons with small chips, designed by a Chinese company called (Vitium)."
She explained: "Vitium is an example of how China can harness civilian technology for strategic military purposes, as it exploited a vital link in the global supply chain for electronic chips and created an ultrasound technology that allows missiles to launch at five times the speed of sound, and thus may enable them to escape." Defensive response systems."
On April 8, 2021, the American newspaper "Bloomberg" reported that "major Chinese investments in hypersonic weapons are a source of great concern to the US Department of Defense."
"Supersonic weapons are an emerging and crucial military technology, and China can target naval ships and air bases in the Pacific," said Mark Lewis, former director of defense research and technology at the Pentagon.
Adding that "a conventional cruise missile will take an hour or two to reach its target, while a hypersonic missile can do so in minutes, and it is a major concern’’.
Dangerous Period
On March 27, 2021, in his analysis of the tensions between the United States and the Western world on the one hand, and China on the other hand, the veteran American diplomat Henry Kissinger, the former United States Secretary of State, stressed the warning of an outbreak of an out of control competition between the West and China, and based on Evaluate it to the experiences of history.
In his speech by applying "Zoom" during a conference organized by the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, Kissinger considered that in the event of failure to reach an understanding between the United States and China on a new world order, the world will face a dangerous period like the one that preceded the First World War.
He said, "The important matter is whether the United States and its Western allies can reach an understanding with China on a new world order. If we do not reach this point, and if we do not reach an understanding with China on this matter, then we will be in the situation that preceded the First World War in Europe." The ongoing conflicts were resolved on an immediate basis, but one of them was out of control at some point. "
He also directed a veiled criticism of the West, saying: "The West should improve its performance and believe in itself .. It is our internal problem, not China's problem."
