Across the world, the United States is engaged in a lot of wars. One of
the least discussed of those wars is the war against Chinese
telecommunications firm Huawei, whose CFO the US had captured by Canada.
As the world upgrades cellular networks to 5G, Huawei is a chief
competitor for major US companies. The Trump Administration has been
making the rounds making it clear that countries must avoid using
Huawei, often under the guise of national security.
The European Union is apparently unconvinced, however, and despite all the US lobbying, EU Digital Chief Andrus Ansip will present recommendations
this week that will not in any way ban member nations from using Huawei
for infrastructure projects, nor accept US claims that they are an
“intelligence threat.”
Huawei has denied that they have in any way used their technology to
provide the Chinese government access to communications. Many EU
countries are arguing that without Huawei, the 5G upgrades across Europe
would be greatly behind.
Interestingly, the US 5G infrastructure companies include some that are
known to have been compelled to collude with the NSA in broad
surveillance of the American people, and on telecommunications
worldwide. Far from a unique security threat, Huawei’s danger is simply
based on the Trump Administration’s assumption that China will do to
Huawei what America does to its major telecoms.
I do not believe that at this point any company other than Huawei (pronounced Wow Way) can actually implement a 5G network. I believe that US companies are labeling things 5G but they are not.
That, I believe, is why the charge is not being made that Huawei stole the technology from the US!!
Hadn’t considered that.
In any case, not being flooded by more intense electromagnetic wireless radiation is likely a good thing.
We don’t know the full effects of intense radiofrequency 5G on dense human populations over years let alone a generation ortwo. The race to get the first such network up is also the race to be the first mass human experiment in radiation saturation.
China seems to be unduly encouraged to be the first mass 5G adopter.
While we will probably know, if only through alternative news, if they screw up, China’s government would be the last to admit effing up genocidally their own populations with RF radiation.
“… Far from a unique security threat, Huawei’s danger is simply based on the Trump Administration’s assumption that China will do to Huawei what America does to its major telecoms.”
True; building on that,
… the U.S. global spynet including 5-Eyes would be disrupted by China salting telecom networks with clean gear;
… people checking Chinese tech by virtue of not trusting it ever then discovering U.S. tampering;
… the U.S. is unable to direct Huawei to spy for the U.S. as this would mean admitting they do spy as well as giving away advanced techniques they don’t want getting around;
… most MIC spying is likely directed at industrial espionage of rival tech-industrial powers, including putative friendlies, not Chinese D-Day landings on Oregon.
Hardly surprising the U.S. wants Chinese telecom out of the global net to the maximum degree possible and everyone else is inclined to welcome Huawei.
US officials have a lot of gall to suggest a Chinese tech company should be sidelined like this. Apparently we can’t compete on a level playing field, so officials are prohibiting competition using whatever excuse is available. It has become increasingly obvious that US tech companies fully cooperate with the government on routinely violating everyone’s privacy everywhere, no warrant required… their objection now is not that our communications are going to be insecure, but that this lack of security might benefit a different government than our own. Nothing is more American than exceptionalism.
You mean Kidnapped in Canada
This could be rephrased, that China will do to the world with Huawei what they US already does to its own people and the world with its own tech industry.
It isn’t just that China might spy, it is that the US is now spying and means to continue to spy in exactly this way.
Do the Europeans really want to empower US spying in this way?
Good news-we need the EU to stand up against the USA or we will all be lost.