If the three thousand oil wells in the coordinates information is entered in wartime enemy missiles and smart bombs, combat data link, then the wells were accurately hit the possibility of war will be greatly increased
Feng Xue, was born in Xi’an, China, United States citizenship in 1998 received a Ph.D. Geology, University of Chicago, specializes in the Dabie Mountains in north China’s high-pressure rocks of the arrested former IHS Energy, the United States in Northeast Asia Regional Manager.
Due to theft and sale of Chinese state secrets, on July 5, the Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court verdict against him, sentenced to 8 years. According to reports, Xue Feng, the Chinese Petroleum Corporation to collect their information and documents of some oil fields, and a more than 30,000 wells, including the geographical coordinates and reserves information database of 22 million dollars later sold to a U.S. consulting firm .
The case alarmed the U.S. government level.
July 6, the U.S. State Department asked China to immediately release and repatriation of Feng Xue. The same day, Chinese Foreign Ministry responded that the legal rights of the accused are fully protected, China’s judicial sovereignty can not be outside interference.
Why is the case with seemingly ordinary trigger Sino-US diplomatic dispute? The key point of the problem is related to geographic data Feng Xue stolen China’s national economic security and military security. The growing evidence also shows that some of China’s geographic data has long been a coveted goal of the Western spy.
Missile attacks during the war target oil well is
U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman has personally visited Xue Feng, and sit about 40 minutes of the trial. According to Spain’s “national newspaper”, said to be pronounced with three Chinese people there.
In this way, the Western media and some politicians argued that the cases involved only “can be obtained from commercial sources of oil industry data,” and accused China of abusing the law. U.S. Embassy, said Washington suffered on Feng Xue verdict was “shocking” and called for “humanitarian release” Xue Feng.
Well everywhere in many parts of China, Xue Feng’s behavior will be punished by heavy penalties then why? The military expert explained to this newspaper, in fact, well data, such as pressure, yield, composition, depth, and so a state secret, and have very detailed security classification division.
This is not to stall state secrets, but “eat a cutting experience” results. Rio Tinto, after the case occurred, people began to realize that a number of economic information appear to be normal in fact a tremendous impact on national security. China’s large oil leak of information will enable the Chinese oil industry to foreign works, oil imports and exports, equipment procurement, negotiations, more vulnerable to analyze the actual mining capacity, cargo volume and price fluctuations of supply and demand space, so that the Chinese side in the disadvantage. This is a great dependence on oil imports in China, amounted to a manipulation strategy for lifeline.
In addition to matters related to economic security, in fact, the geographic information can also be a large number of employed in the military. Military experts point out that if three thousand oil wells in the coordinates of the information is entered wartime enemy missiles and smart bombs, combat data link, then the wells were accurately hit the possibility of war greatly increased.
States army has long been recognized the importance of geographic information. Such as the World War II, before all-out war Japan, the Japanese are not satisfied with the rough air reconnaissance data, China has sent more than a thousand people to the field of illegal surveying and mapping. The system of geographic intelligence gathering activities have been effective, war, the Japanese hold even greater than the map of China Map of China’s armed forces but also its much more accurate.
Again before the war started in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army Materiel Command also used by the local geographic data, built one billion U.S. dollars investment in Afghanistan realistic virtual battlefield simulation from the desert to the jungles and the crowded streets and other terrain.
US-Japan joint collection of Geographical Information
Military experts point out that modern war fighting forces on the geographic information becoming more demanding, although the major powers now have satellites, air reconnaissance capability, but because of limited high-altitude reconnaissance and precision surface of the earth curvature, atmospheric refraction and so lead to image distortion, etc. reasons, to send all staff on-site investigation and verification is still more than an indispensable means of intelligence gathering.
December 22, 2006, the United States and Japan signed a “cooperation geospatial intelligence official documents.” The document so that they provide each other with their respective countries in the world to master the detailed geographic data, including terrain, route, the latest measurement data, as well as place names, routes, geomagnetism, broad areas of the East China Sea and depth. United States and Japan issued a message in external cooperation to this claim as against the DPRK, but the fact that cooperation does not limit the scope of detecting objects and information exchange. Geographical information from China is clearly in the US-Japan joint collection and sharing of the list.
For this cooperation in the US-Japan contact and preparation time, the Japanese in China’s illegal to collect geographic information, the situation appeared one after another. September 23, 2005, the Japanese Institute of Land Information Technology Dalin trip with his students to bring two high-precision East Toshitaka GPS receiver, the local residents in the home setting by GPS receivers as a fixed station to the mobile vehicle stations in collecting large amounts of data, unauthorized collection of Hotan Airport Hotan City to important local water conservancy facilities, the geographic coordinates of the data highway.
Previously, the PLA garrison patrol forces in Xinjiang discovered Japanese tourists in the military restricted area near the survey phenomenon. Li Qiang receiving unit staff in Xinjiang, “International Herald Tribune” interview, he recalled, when a routine patrol forces in the edge of the area check a sport utility vehicle, used by Japanese tourists were found on board a very detailed map, several maps in the Chinese civil does not exist in the restricted area unknown path, temporary bridge has clearly marked, and even numbers and People’s Liberation Army occupied the same map! In the next and local checks with the security sector, we found the car in notebook computers, photographic equipment in a large number of military restricted area of geographic information.
World War II, Japan has not invaded into Xinjiang and other places, no grasp of geographical information detailed in Xinjiang. US-Japan long-term lack of geographical intelligence agencies in northwest China’s first-hand investigation and verification information. In recent years, Western spy to patronize the area from time to time, trying to fill this information gap.
Abroad, there are stringent “geographical zone”
“Voice of America” and other media that much fuss over China’s Feng Xue case, but in fact the U.S. government and the private sector protection of important geographic information is also very strict.
Clinton’s eight categories of the United States “must be confidential information” includes very broad. The “scientific and technical matters related to national security, the U.S. government plans to protect nuclear facilities, and national security-related vulnerability of information infrastructure,” the three are involved in geographic information.
“9.11″, the U.S. security services are more sensitive to the geographic information. For example, if the Middle East, Arab-American to use Google Earth mapping software such as frequent concern of some “sensitive areas”, it will lead to suspicion of intelligence personnel. U.S. commercial institutions, enterprises, important facilities of its own security company will employ strict protection, such as nuclear power plants, oil and other large geographic information, by no means “can be found easily online.” If the hand-held camera foreigners surveying equipment to the nearby long stay will not be free without blocking measure.
Contrast, the domestic situation, private institutions and some government agencies are not strong sense of confidentiality. Li Qiang staff recalls that when they arrested suspected Japanese tourists, the local authorities to force the results of her inquiries, the suspect is through a travel agencies related procedures, travel agencies in charge are not verified after the tourists “to travel and to find a Xinjiang monuments and sites, “the rhetoric credibility, neither in Translation, Wizard, or to relevant departments, on behalf of rental vehicles at random to allow the Japanese military activities in the closed area. Li Qiang staff said that some places in foreign investment, tourism, services, or scientific research cooperation activities, awareness of confidentiality on the geographic information needs further strengthening.
