China’s intelligence prioritizes energy security and cyber sovereignty: the China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline switches to a backup oil source in 60 seconds, and Qingdao’s underground oil storage can support the country’s oil consumption for 15 days; Hangzhou data center deploys “Tai Chi Defense” to intercept 3 million DDoS attacks per second, and the digital RMB smart contract has cut off 23% of cross-border money laundering routes, and the mass production yield of 7-nanometer chips has exceeded 82%.
Chip War
In 2023, a wafer factory was brightly lit at two o’clock in the morning, and engineers stared at the yield curve of the 28-nanometer production line, which suddenly plummeted to 62%. This scene is like a replay of the ASML lithography machine being stuck in the neck that year-China’s semiconductor industry is experiencing the bloodiest secret war. The latest entity list of the US Department of Commerce has locked the process below 16 nanometers, but SMIC has used DUV stacking technology to make 7-nanometer chips, which is more magical than the two bombs and one satellite back then.
This war is fighting the lifeline of the supply chain. The purchasing director of a memory chip factory in Wuhan showed me their emergency plan: the inventory of key spare parts is accurate to the piece, and even the air pump seal ring is prepared for three years. When Japan stopped supplying photoresist, their workshop used domestic materials for experiments, and scrapped wafers worth two private jets before they found the way. Now the yield rate of Yangtze Memory’s 232-layer NAND flash memory has caught up with Samsung, relying on this kind of experience gained with real money.
EDA software is the real bottleneck. Just like you can’t draw precise drawings without AutoCAD, chip design is impossible without tools like Synopsys. After Huawei was sanctioned, they circulated the operation of using the Cadence version 20 years ago to hard-code 5G base station chips. Now, although the interface of domestic EDAs such as Huada Jiutian looks like the Windows 98 system, it can already handle 14-nanometer design. A military unit even used it to reverse engineer the US military radar chip.
The most fatal thing is the competition for talent. Headhunters in Zhangjiang, Shanghai now clearly mark their prices: Engineers with experience in TSMC’s 5-nanometer mass production will receive a signing bonus that is equivalent to the down payment for a house in Pudong. A domestic equipment manufacturer is even more outrageous, inviting retired Japanese semiconductor technicians to be consultants, and paying them by the minute – these veterans can tell what is wrong with the ion implanter by just touching the vibration of the equipment.
Belt and Road
The sound of the whistle of the cargo ship in the Strait of Malacca hides a game more complicated than chips. On the day of the trial operation of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway in Indonesia in 2024, local villagers rushed into the construction site holding a banner that read “Give me back my land”. This picture perfectly interprets the sweetness and bitterness of the Belt and Road. The money China has spent on this road is enough to buy all the listed companies in Vietnam, but what it gets in return is not just ports and railways.
Resource security is the real trump card of this road. The crude oil pipeline at Kyaukpyu Port in Myanmar can transport 22 million tons of oil every year, bypassing the Strait of Malacca, which is equivalent to China’s crude oil consumption for 10 days. In the monitoring room of a cobalt mine in Africa, Chinese engineers taught local security guards to use Dahua’s facial recognition system. They were not trying to prevent thieves, but commercial espionage by Western mining giants. These arrangements are more practical than any diplomatic rhetoric.
The debt trap is really a shame. In the Colombo Port City project, China actually played a trick – exchanging construction and operation rights for debt restructuring. Now the foreign exchange earned by this free trade zone for Sri Lanka is five times more than the port rent each year. Ethiopia’s Oriental Industrial Park is even more amazing. It directly taught locals to use TikTok to sell coffee beans. Last year, online sales increased sevenfold. This is not a debt trap, but clearly business enlightenment.
The Digital Silk Road is the hidden trick. Laos’ 5G base stations use Huawei Marine’s submarine optical cables, and the transmission speed is four thousand times faster than their previous dial-up Internet access. Thai rubber plantation owners now use Alibaba Cloud’s AI algorithm to predict production, with an accuracy rate 83% higher than praying to Buddha for divination. These digital infrastructures are like capillaries, delivering Chinese standards to the world.
In the security system of the presidential palace of an African country, Hikvision’s cameras and Tongfang Weishi’s security inspection machines form an iron wall; the payment system of an e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia is based on Ant’s blockchain technology – these invisible battlefields are the Terracotta Warriors of the new era.
Military in the South China Sea
At four o’clock in the morning, a radar station in Fujian suddenly sounded a shrill alarm – the US EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft was playing “edge ball” close to the median line of the strait, and was only 16.8 nautical miles away from the baseline of our territorial waters at the closest point. This cat-and-mouse game is played more than 20 times a month. In a confrontation last year, our pilots used the J-16 to “bathe” the Australian P-8 maritime patrol aircraft, and the aluminum foil jammers were scattered like flowers from the sky.
The real powder keg in the South China Sea is underwater. In the port of Yongxing Island in Sansha City, there are more than 20 modified fishing boats parked all year round. These boats are equipped with seabed topographic mapping systems, and fishermen can find out the hydrological data while fishing. Last year, when a Vietnamese exploration ship wanted to cause trouble in Wan’an Bank, our 40 fishing boats directly set up a Bagua formation, forcing the other fleet to not dare to drop anchor for three days. Now the missile warehouses on the islands and reefs are hidden in the base of wind turbines, and the radar stations are disguised as seafood processing plants. This set of “military-civilian integration” gameplay makes satellite reconnaissance blind.
Legal battles are more dangerous than real swords and guns. The Philippine lawyers used Article 298 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea for arbitration, and we turned around and brought out the revised version of the Maritime Traffic Safety Law – now foreign ships entering the South China Sea must report their draft depth in advance, and this regulation has made the US military survey ship uncomfortable. What’s even more amazing is that when the Japanese merchant ship was seized last year, the reason used was “failure to handle ballast water in accordance with regulations”, and the International Maritime Organization’s terms were played better than the old captain of Tokyo Bay.
Fishermen are the real Great Wall on the sea. The old ship bosses in Tanmen Town, Qionghai, all have special navigation apps installed on their phones. When they encounter foreign warships, they turn on the “fishing mode” and the fleet automatically forms a human wall. During a confrontation last year, they used fishing nets to entangle the propeller of a US destroyer. The damage to the fishing nets was clearly listed in the subsequent claims list. These “maritime militias” wearing slippers are more difficult to deal with than regular troops.
Anti-color revolution bottom line
The “free sour plum soup” incident that suddenly broke out in a university cafeteria turned into a gathering of thousands of people within three days – it was later found that it was a coupon issued by an overseas NGO through a campus food delivery platform. The color revolution has long since changed from a street battle to an algorithm attack and defense. Now the sensitive word library of university forums is updated every 6 hours, and even code words such as “Starbucks second cup half price” can be recognized.
The ideological defense line is being digitally reconstructed. The public opinion monitoring system developed by a Shenzhen technology company can predict mass incidents through the frequency of use of Weibo emoticons, with an accuracy rate 67% higher than traditional methods. During the Hong Kong amendment storm last year, this system warned of the Yuen Long conflict 48 hours in advance, and the special police team directly confiscated 3,000 laser pens at the subway entrance. Even more ruthless is the WeChat “circuit breaker mechanism” – when the discussion heat of a group exceeds the threshold, it automatically triggers a 30-second information delay, which is enough for the Internet police to lock down the leader.
Colleges and universities have become battlefields without gunpowder. The ideological and political courses of a 985 university now use virtual reality technology to restore the scene of the color revolution. Students wear VR glasses to experience the Kiev Square riots, which is more useful than watching the news broadcast a hundred times. The library database procurement is even more secretive. Last year, 20,000 “academic works” donated by a foreign foundation were intercepted, and the proportion of private goods in them was as high as 43%.
The economic defense line is the ultimate firewall. During the Xinjiang cotton incident, an e-commerce platform modified the algorithm overnight and automatically associated the “boycott” keyword with the patriotic product page, and the conversion rate soared 18 times. Even more extreme is the siege of NGO funds – now overseas remittances exceeding US$50,000 will trigger the “anti-money laundering circuit breaker”, and last year a certain environmental protection organization was intercepted. 38 million funds that were prepared to be used for street art.
Grassroots governance plays with “millimeter-level defense”. The “building thermometer” system set up by a community in Shanghai can detect suspicious people in the group tenants through abnormal water and electricity data. Last year, a foreign force tried to infiltrate through the pet community, but was discovered on the spot by the dog-walking intelligence network of grandpa and auntie – Auntie Wang’s golden retriever and the suspicious element’s corgi failed to mate, but instead became a breakthrough. This capillary-level prevention and control system makes it even more difficult for people to hide than Skynet cameras.
Energy lifeline
At three o’clock in the morning, the pressure gauge of the oil pipeline on the China-Kazakhstan border suddenly soared red – the oil supply in the direction of Kazakhstan dropped by 60%, the dispatch center switched to the backup plan in seconds, and the oil storage tank group of Xinjiang Dushanzi Refinery automatically started the filling mode. The sensitivity of this energy nerve reflex arc is directly related to whether the national artery is blocked. When the United States sanctioned Venezuela last year, we launched the “Crude Oil Palette” plan overnight, blending Iranian heavy oil, Russian light oil and African crude oil in proportion, and forcibly made raw materials that meet refining standards. This set of operations is more sophisticated than mixing a cocktail.
The strategic oil reserve is a trick. The underground oil depot in Huangdao, Qingdao, looks like a seafood cold chain base, but in fact, the 30-meter-deep cave contains enough crude oil for the whole country to use for 15 days. Even more amazing is the LNG receiving station on an island in Zhejiang. The gas tanks are disguised as wind turbines, which cannot even be recognized by Google Maps. When the situation in the Taiwan Strait was tense last year, these “shadow energy bases” extended the life of power plants on the southeast coast within three days, and the fluctuation of electricity prices was suppressed to less than 2%.
The power attack and defense war is hidden in the UHV tower. The “technical supply cut” of the Qinghai-Henan 卤800 kV line last year was actually a remote control of the converter valve temperature sensor by hackers from a certain country. Our engineers directly switched to manual mode and relied on the old master to touch the vibration frequency of the transformer to determine the load status. This set of folk methods actually broke the opponent’s digital encirclement. Now all newly built wind farms are equipped with “electromagnetic fingerprint locks”, which automatically identify the grid feature code when connected to the grid, and foreign wind power equipment cannot be connected to the Chinese grid at all.
Rare earths are the real energy lever. On the production line of a mine in Ganzhou, workers use X-ray sorting machines to extract terbium from tailings with an accuracy of 99.99%. The engine of the US F-35 fighter lacks these “industrial vitamins” and even starts up. Even more ruthless is the magnetic material processing link – Japanese companies bought Chinese rare earth permanent magnets and wanted to dismantle and reverse engineer them, but found that the heat treatment curve used a chaotic algorithm and could not be copied at all.
Network sovereignty
A data center in Hangzhou suddenly experienced a traffic tsunami in the early morning – an overseas IP launched a DDoS attack with 3 million requests per second. The defense system automatically turned on the “Tai Chi mode” and directed the attack traffic to the honeypot cluster of Yunshang Guizhou, and then located the attacker’s chicken network hidden in Kiev. This kind of scramble for every inch of cyberspace is more brain-burning than territorial defense. Last year, a social platform suddenly broke out the “emoji uprising”, and the panda head emoji was implanted with malicious code. The Cyberspace Administration of China directly launched a “digital disinfection cabin”, and the net net rate reached 98% within two hours.
The battle for data sovereignty has already begun on submarine optical cables. The Shanghai landing station of the direct submarine cable between China and the United States has now deployed quantum key distribution equipment, and the key generation speed is 17 times faster than traditional encryption. During an international conference last year, politically sensitive information that was disguised as video streaming data was intercepted. After decoding, it was found that it was ciphertext hidden in the spectrum of Douyin’s popular BGM. Now, multinational companies’ Chinese business data, even backup tapes, must go through the “data naked channel” through customs, and are physically isolated throughout the transportation.
Social media has become the opium war of the new era. After the upgrade of WeChat’s “fuse mechanism”, the risk level of group chats can be predicted by the density of chat keywords. The “fruit alias method” (replacing sensitive words with apples and bananas) taught in a color revolution manual last year was discovered by the algorithm after just three uses. What’s even more amazing is the “painting style filter” of short video platforms. Even if the current politics are alluded to in the form of animation, AI can identify sensitive scenes from the reflection of the characters’ pupils.
The 5G battlefield is a dimensionality reduction attack. Each of the smart street lamp poles in Xiongan New Area is an edge computing node. Last year, a foreign embassy wanted to install monitoring equipment under the guise of a municipal renovation project, but the chip was burned by the electromagnetic pulse of the street lamp. Huawei’s 5G base station is even more ruthless. The built-in network security protocol will “tame” overseas equipment. Three months after a Canadian telecom operator’s equipment was connected to the Chinese network, it was automatically upgraded to a version that meets Chinese standards.
Digital currency is a hidden front in the struggle for sovereignty. The smart contract function of the digital RMB piloted the “border trade funds sandbox” on the southwestern border last year, and cross-border payments directly bypassed the SWIFT system. An underground bank wanted to use virtual currency to launder money, but was targeted by the exchange’s AI. The system found that the account’s transaction pattern at 3 a.m. was highly consistent with the GPS trajectory of Xinjiang’s cotton harvesting vehicles, directly triggering the central bank’s anti-money laundering Skynet.
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