The Chinese Foreign Ministry has confirmed filing “many complaints” with the US government over espionage actions against Chinese companies, and looks to be even busier today with the scandal surrounding the NSA infiltration of Huawei.
Over the weekend, it emerged that the NSA targeted networking firm Huawei, the second-largest network infrastructure company in the word, behind only US-based Cisco. With the NSA having coerced US-based companies into coopering with spying schemes, Huawei’s being based abroad was likely a major reason for targeting them, and making off with the source code for their products.
Chinese officials have demanded a full explanation of the moves against Huawei, which reportedly began as far back as 2007, and has also insisted that the NSA must stop spying on its companies.
This is just the latest in a long line of NSA spying scandals that have suggested the agency was used for industrial espionage against well-placed foreign companies as much as it was used to spy on civilians the world over. Both Germany and Brazil have also seen themselves as major targets of industrial spying by the NSA.
Isn’t it time to ask again and again for NSA to be disbanded.
It is violating the US constitution by engaging in massive spying on us and it’s endangering us by spying on the Chinese.
NSA is a threat to our NATIONAL SECURITY.
This is incompatible with calling itself National security agency isn’t it?
President Kennedy wanted to breakup the CIA, Pt Obama should break up the NSA and completely redefine what it can and cannot do.
If the Chinese want to retaliate against us and they finally dump the dollar along with Putin, our economy will go down fast and inflation of 100% a week will become reality. National security is at risk!
Chris
I find it odd and humorous that the Chinese officials would have the gall to complain about US spying and hacking. They have hacked defense contractors, US agencies and US corporations. Stole MFG. trade secrets and advanced military data. Their as crooked as the NSA.