Yadkin Docs

ustin Rowlatt investigates the spread of Chinese influence around the planet and asks what the world will be like if China overtakes America as the world's economic superpower. In the first of two films, he embarks on a journey across Southern Africa to chart the extraordinary phenomenon of Chinese migration to Africa, and the huge influence of China on the development of the continent. While many in the West view Africa as a land of poverty, to the Chinese it is seen as an almost limitless business opportunity. From Angola to Tanzania, Justin meets the fearless Chinese entrepreneurs who have travelled thousands of miles to set up businesses.

Fuelling China: Daniel Yergin joins a panel of Canadian economists and observers to discuss China's growing need for energy. What does this growth means for Canada? What are the political implications of China re-shaping their energy sector?

Director, China Policy Program, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

Immelt said “certainty of demand” is required to spur hiring.

Immelt said that the “government in the U.S. has always been a catalyst to drive growth. This is not President Obama versus President Bush: The [National Institute of Health] has been a catalyst for the world’s best healthcare system. The Defense Department spawned… the Internet and modern transportation technology for generations. The nuclear industry was built [by] the Defense Department.”

Infrastructure is a facilitator of competitiveness and productivity… whether it’s broadband or highways or ports or electricity grids

That's called social engineering and it's a widely used technique, especially by Chinese hackers.

ou say Chinese hackers and there's been a lot of reports about cyber espionage stemming from China. What's going on here? GJELTEN: You know, Lynn, all the cyber security people we talked to say there's just a ton of cyber espionage coming out of China these days. Hackers are stealing technological secrets, trade secrets, computer code, design plans, you name it. The security people say it's like a vacuum cleaner approach. They just suck up everything they find.

But what's behind this is that China wants to catch up to the west. Now, they don't have the business environment to support innovation. You don't see the Chinese equivalent of companies like IBM or Google or Apple popping up there, so rather than develop their own ideas and technology, they just steal it. That's the background here. At least, that's what we hear from U.S. intelligence officials and security people. NEARY: And the Chinese government's not acknowledging any role in this attack on the chamber of commerce? GJELTEN: They say there's no evidence, but cyber security people who have investigated other intrusions blamed on China say it's pretty easy to tie them back there and it's hard to see how the government would not be involved in some way, given the way China works. Chamber officials say they have no doubt that this intrusion did come from China.

Google reported in January 2010 that its computer infrastructure in China had been hit by a "highly sophisticated" attack that resulted in the theft of company secrets. Google also said it had evidence that a goal of the attackers was to gain access to the Gmail accounts of Chinese human-rights activists.

At the time, the company did not blame the Chinese government for the intrusion. But shortly thereafter, a U.S. diplomat in Beijing confidentially cabled Washington that "a well placed contact" was claiming the Google attack had been "coordinated" by the Chinese government "at the Politburo Standing Committee level."

China publicly for hacking American industries

but Chinese hackers have even broken into and stolen plans from American furniture manufacturers.

China's cyberwar against U.S. is too vital to ignore

China is waging a quiet, mostly invisible but massive cyberwar against the United States

obtaining the ability to sabotage vital infrastructure.