WTF! June 11, 2018  China Pushing to Control US Rail Industry Control of the U.S. rail system also gives the CCP a network of sensors across the United States, and control of a key tool used for domestic transport by the U.S. military. Trains run through every major city and through every major military base...and trains are also used to transfer sensitive materials for the U.S. military. According to Erik Olson, vice president of the Rail Security Alliance, the main company behind this push is CRRC, a state-owned Chinese company. A report from Oxford Economics, backed by the Rail Security Alliance, found that CRRC’s actions could eliminate 65,000 jobs from the United States if China takes over U.S. freight rail production. If allowed to proceed, it could also reduce the U.S. GDP by close to $6.5 billion. Today’s trains are fitted with closed circuit cameras, have internal WiFi, and,  according to Olson, the technologies in the Chinese-made rail cars are from some of the same companies currently being accused of spying for the CCP. “Smartcars are really smart vehicles,” Olson said. “They have tons of sensors on them. They’re e-cars, essentially.” User data could be at risk from the Chinese companies having access to internet traffic on the networks, and data collected by the sensors could feed back to the Chinese regime as well.