Exclusive: Overseas Chinese Asked to Buy Chips for CCP’s State-owned Enterprise 警惕：中共或發動海外華人代購芯片
An overseas Chinese recently said on social media that his friend was asked by someone from a state-owned enterprise to buy chips from overseas countries.
一名海外華人日前在社交媒體上分享說，他的朋友被某中共央企要求代購20枚日本產芯片。以下是這個帖子及其英文翻譯稿，和相關背景新聞資料。
An overseas Chinese recently said on social media that his friend was asked by someone from a state-owned enterprise to buy chips from overseas countries.
The post says, “Overseas Chinese mobilized to buy chips [for the CCP]? Today, a friend of mine was contacted by personnel from a Chinese central level state-owned enterprise, and was asked to buy 20 pieces of Japanese chips. My friend worried that this would break the law. The person in China tried to reassure him by saying that the chips would only be used for civil purposes, on cameras only. It was only because their previous suppliers were banned from selling chips to China that he had to ask my friend to buy chips.
“I was very surprised upon learning this news. It turns out that China cannot even produce camera chips, and has to import Japanese ones. They are trying to launch a people-ocean tactic, like having many ants moving things. If one overseas Chinese buys 20 chips, putting all these chips together, that will be a large amount . I would like to advise all overseas Chinese to obey the local laws and not to be greedy for small profits.”
Early last year, when entire China was under lockdown, and overseas countries still didn’t know much about the CCP virus (COVID19) pandemic, the CCP mobilized overseas Chinese people to stockpile masks, resulting in a world wide shortage.
A video of a Chinese woman excitedly sharing and boasting about her experiences of buying all the face masks in several different supermarkets in Florida was widely circulated on the Internet last year.
After the US imposed a ban on China's top chipmaker from using American technology, Chinese companies including Huawei have run out of their processors.
7/17/2021
