The recent visit to Taiwan of Nancy Pelosino less than the third person in the presidential line of succession, president of the House of Representatives of the USA and emblematic figure of the Democratic Party of the administration Biden generated not only a diplomatic upset for the government of Xi Jinping but it gave rise to new Chinese strategic options that escalated to the dialectical confrontation of the last days between Washington Y Beijing.
After Pelosi left the area, the Chinese military exercises included the launch of nine precision missiles into the surrounding Taiwan Sea, before it Japan raised a tough diplomatic complaint and Secretary Antony Blinken, declared in the early hours of Thursday that Washington hopes and wishes that China does not escalate an unnecessary crisis after the visit of the US official.
In the military scenario, the latest events have deepened what already had the edge of an acute and undeniable diplomatic crisis, but which threatens to become even more complex. However, the United States is well aware that allowing China to take the lead is not a valid option, Beijing is a serious political and economic opponent that also has significant technological power and is unwilling to concede advantages specifically in the new modern battlefield: cyberspace.
The Department of State has a vast array of information on several cybernetic partners supported by Beijing whose strategy is to take concrete actions in order to attack the vulnerabilities that Washington could offer and that are publicly known, especially in their network devices and routers from companies that move business operations for billions of dollars, but also from private companies contracted through outsourcing systems by public offices and thus cause serious problems that compromise telecommunications companies that provide network services to government offices including the United States Armed Forces. This warning was distributed by the FBI on Friday to other government agencies in what was the most serious warning on US cyber security since the Cold War with the former USSR.
According to Washington, there are cyber-criminal groups close to China that try to infiltrate It assiduously pursues these objectives through the use of publicly available exploit codes against virtual private network (VPN) services and the same with public applications, although without using its well-known malware programs already identified and neutralized by federal authorities. The alert report distributed by the FBI states that they are trying to operate through more modern updates that make unupdated systems vulnerable.
The Biden administration is working hard through its security agencies on these topics, developing technological defense strategies on the most likely systems to be compromised. This activity has become essential to maintain the initiative and control in terms of new cryptographic threats to protect digital communications and network financial transactions. These modern systems work with quantum computers, which provides preventive analysis and intrusion defense called cryptanalysis, the modality prevents and neutralizes important national security, economic and cyber security risks against an opponent like Beijing that has the capabilities to cause damage to US private and government networks.
For the Biden administration, it is not about what is the ability of cybercriminals to operate cryptanalytically offensive computers. According to the White House, quantum technology is within the reach of the United States to neutralize large-scale attacks and provides the widest range of defense against cyber attacks that seek to damage its critical structures. In this regard, last June, President Biden enacted directives to expand the National Quantum Initiative Act developed in 2018. That executive order established a White House advisory committee on the National Quantum Initiative program for Homeland Security and provided The United States has broad global leadership in quantum technology, placing the country far above the vast majority in neutralizing security risks of cryptographic systems that protect critical infrastructure and secure military and civilian communications.
Thus, beyond the current crisis and the seriousness of the Chinese military reaction manifested by launching missiles into the sea around Taiwan, the White House is optimistic and both President Biden and his advisers on military matters They believe that there will be a dialogue to prevent this type of action from being repeated. However, the Oval Office has shown concern and warned that attacks on its systems and computers could jeopardize civil and military communications and undermine the security infrastructure supervision and control systems for most financial transactions based on Internet, hence the experts were ordered to fully focus on the threat.
Quantum supremacy is a technological turning point for Washington that marks a before and after, having the speed and computational power that this technology offers surpasses computers and classic systems, providing a vital defense shield for US national security . That technology has the potential to fuel the advancement of the US economy, support research in bioengineering, artificial intelligence, financial market analysis, and military and strategic intelligence against its enemies.
In mid-2021, an IBM model program collaborated with Germany to become the first country in the European Union (EU) to develop a quantum system computer, and the US program considers helping its allies develop and establish the systems. quantum systems in Canada, South Korea and the Arab countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCPG) by the end of 2022.
On the side of China and Russia, both are on their way to becoming leaders in advanced computing technology, but their quantum technology program would not be active until 2029, which places the United States and its allies in vast superiority in the matter and would amplify its potential in any type of conflict in the short or medium term.
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