Port cranes lifted into the realms of spy movies: China Daily editorial
China DailyUS President Joe Biden. The Joe Biden administration is reportedly going to issue multiple cybersecurity directives on Wednesday aimed at addressing what it calls "vulnerability" at US maritime ports. The move comes in the wake of claims by some US lawmakers that cargo cranes made in China pose potential security risks. They should be reminded that the Chinese port crane manufacturers still rely heavily on hydraulic machines, frequency converters, electric machines, electric programmable logic controllers, machine vision control systems and various other core parts and technologies from the US, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Sweden. That China's port crane industry has prospered quickly over the past decade is mainly due to its increasingly prominent advantages of scale rather than its control of the core technologies and parts.
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