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Washington Asks Allies to Drop Huawei
The U.S. government has initiated an extraordinary outreach campaign to foreign allies, trying to persuade wireless and internet providers in these countries to avoid telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei Technologies Co., according to people familiar with the situation.
American officials have briefed their government counterparts and telecom executives in friendly countries where Huawei equipment is already in wide use, including Germany, Italy and Japan, about what they see as cybersecurity risks, these people said. The U.S. is also considering increasing financial aid for telecommunications development in countries that shun Chinese-made equipment, some of these people say.
Also: The US is warning other countries against using Huawei's 5G tech
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Sunday November 25 2018, @06:51PM (2 children)
It is extremely irritating that this point has some merit. The Red Chinese Government is very much not a friend.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday November 25 2018, @07:31PM (1 child)
The 5-eyes nation I live in already has a telecom network supplied by Huawei. If I remember correctly the US was not best pleased at the time.
Our problem is that while we are an ally of the US, they are considered not terribly reliable these days, and China (blatantly self interested) are influential in our region.
We are too small to annoy the big dogs, so it's something of a balancing act.
Based on this I suspect our government is frightened of what China might do. [newsroom.co.nz]
This investigation is also going nowhere. [nzherald.co.nz]
I have heard China's engagement in the region called "soft power" but there may well be a threat behind it.
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Sunday November 25 2018, @08:06PM
China's softpower policy can be understood by its similarity to the foreign policy concept in the US circa 1903 "Speak softly and carry a big stick"
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