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Senate panel wants stricter oversight of Chinese telecoms:
[...] The Wall Street Journal understands that the Senate Permanent Subcommitee on Investigations will issue a report demanding stricter oversight of Chinese telecoms operating in the US, arguing that they otherwise pose an "unacceptable" national security risk. The panel also blasts officials for allegedly being too soft on these telecoms across multiple administrations, pointing to 18 years of supposedly lax screening.
The panel criticizes several regulators (nicknamed Team Telecom) for finding no concerns when China Telecom and China Unicom, both state-run, got licenses to operate in the US in 2002. A risk mitigation deal in 2007 gave those regulators the power to visit China Telecom, but they only used that twice (in 2017 and 2018), according to the Senate panel's findings.
American officials have stepped their scrutiny of China over the years. Team Telecom has asked the FCC to revoke China Telecom's license, and it's no secret that the US has clamped down on equipment makers like Huawei and ZTE. However, this panel could help foster an even more aggressive stance.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday April 22 2020, @01:01AM (5 children)
Any "technology stealing" Chinese companies may have done was with the full connivance of the western companies that allowed them to do it.
Let's stop pretending those clever Chinese fooled everyone. The quid pro quo for access to the Chinese markets (and cheap, cheap labour) has always been letting them have what they want.
Oh, and the massive western companies that have made billions on that deal don't care what you think
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 22 2020, @01:15AM (2 children)
Yes, and I think there is something of a racial thing in there somewhere. All those really bright assholes from Ivy League colleges thought something along the lines of, "Well, we can pretend to give those dumb Chinks whatever it is they want. We're so smart, we can give them advantages like this, and steal it all back later. No one can compete against us, because we're the best!" The only two problems with that were, the Chinks were smarter than the Ivy Leaguers thought, and the Ivy Leaguers are a lot dumber than they thought.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday April 22 2020, @05:51PM
Interesting how software patents and copyright are totally cool once those "Chinks" get involved.
I thought that information just, like, wanted to be free or something, man.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2020, @07:15PM
doesn't matter. ivy league got rich(er). they believe rich = smart. the chinese figured out this weak spot long ago, tah.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday April 22 2020, @02:58PM (1 child)
Maybe we could protect our superior freedom loving way of life by building a great firewall to protect us. These tech-stealing Chinese companies are trying to steal our tech for their own profit to enrich themselves! Do they have no shame! Furthermore, they embed back doors in tech so that their government can spy on us! Freedom loving nations like ours have no such agency that would do such a dastardly spying thing!
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday April 22 2020, @05:54PM
Won't the internet simply detect our censorship and route around it?