Australian Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek revealed that national security agencies are examining the potential weaponization of Chinese electric vehicles. This follows a US ban on Chinese-connected car technology over national security concerns and an apparent Israeli attack using booby-trapped pagers.
Minister for the Environment Tanya Plibersek says the nation’s security agencies are looking into the possible weaponisation of Chinese-made electric vehicles as part of the country’s $600 million cybersecurity strategy as Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce took the government to task over the issue. Her comments come a week after the US said it would ban Chinese-connected car technology from vehicles driven in the US over national security concerns, which would include hardware and software.
Barnaby Joyce and Tanya Plibersek go head-to-head on Sunrise. They also followed Israel’s apparent booby trapping of pagers and phones used by terrorist organisation Hezbollah this month, which killed 37 and saw more than 2000 people injured after hundreds of handheld pagers simultaneously exploded. On Monday, Plibersek joined Sunrise host Nat Barr and Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce for Hot Topics, where she was questioned about the imported technology and the potential for foreign interference.
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