US Ports Full of This 'Trojan Horse' From China

US Ports Full of This 'Trojan Horse' From China - Spencer Brown

"...U.S. officials are ringing the alarm about another potential avenue for malign interference in the United States from Beijing: cranes.

• The highly visible but generally ignored ship-to-shore cranes at American ports are responsible for loading and unloading tens of millions of shipping containers each year. In addition to being a critical component of American supply chains, they're also used in some cases by the U.S. military.

Some of these cranes are innocuous, but an estimated 80 percent of ship-to-shore cranes operating at U.S. ports are made by ZPMC, a China-based manufacturer, leading to rising concern among American defense and national security personnel that have compared the cranes to a "Trojan horse," according to an exclusive report in The Wall Street Journal.