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The US has warned the British government it "would be madness" to use Huawei technology in the UK's 5G network.
A US delegation presented the UK with new evidence claiming to show security risks posed by using the Chinese firm.
[...]Senior US officials handed over a dossier of technical information which sources claim challenged British intelligence's own technical assessment that it would be possible to use Huawei in the 5G infrastructure without risks to national security.
[...]The move is being seen as the latest round in an intense lobbying effort by the Trump administration as the UK government prepares to makes its decision on the 5G network.
Last year, the US banned companies from selling components and technology to Huawei and 68 related companies, citing national security concerns.
Is the security concern real, or is it all about the Benjamins?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @08:26AM (5 children)
The US has now completely lost its moral ground. When they can't compete, they impose pointless embargoes. Cuba was not an aberration in this regard, just a forward about things to come. Endless wars, both militarily and economically, is the status quo of US. For any other nation, Dotard in Chief would be beginning of an end (like in Zimbabwe or Turkey), but smarter people in the past have won great influence for US that it continues to enjoy. USD reserve currency status is what I'm talking about here. If not for that, US would be like Turkey already.
Enjoy while it lasts? I'm not optimistic that Americans have any great intelligence to actually see their own problems.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday January 15 2020, @01:24PM
Fair point, but who does?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @07:25PM
And you foreigners have to obey, as you're too scared to grow some balls to fight for your own interests. Haha, fuck you! 🖕🖕🖕
-- Uncle Sam
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday January 15 2020, @10:52PM (1 child)
Moral grounds tend to be rather relative when the other side is harvesting religious and ethnic minorities for not-so-spare organs.
Lesser of two evils and all that...
compiling...
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday January 16 2020, @12:21AM
Evil is evil. [youtube.com]
Can we choose "neither"?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @09:45AM
Although really the Whiskey Rebellion and Washintgon's leading of conscripted men to put it down showed America's true colors before it was even truly America (that was still under the Articles of Confederation, look to Shay's Rebellion and others for post-Union conflicts and the surrounding history of how the mechant class was already running things at the detriment of the common folk and especially colonial farmers. People continued moving West for a lot of reasons. Including to avoid taxes and corrupt government/lawmen.)
The opening of Japan however was an unprovoked attack on a foreign entity who had claimed the right to isolation, a right which we chose to breach in order to have a more convenient port to resupply in past Hawaii since Chinese ports were under unfavorable European control. The result of that being the decline of the Shogunate and the return of Imperial Japan, directly leading to their participation in later wars up to and including WW2 in order to continue fueling their industrial capacity for which they had insufficient domestic resources, particularly in regards to fuel and supplies of certain minerals.