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Senate Panel Wants Stricter Oversight of Chinese Telecoms

posted by janrinok on Tuesday April 21 2020, @11:41PM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday April 22 2020, @03:31PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday April 22 2020, @03:31PM (#985750) Journal

    The difference is that the USA was actively trying to get Japan on it's feet. While China has been sneaking around the back door to do some shady business in the alley.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 22 2020, @04:17PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 22 2020, @04:17PM (#985760) Journal

    The difference is that the USA was actively trying to get Japan on it's feet.

    You mean: "The US govt was actively trying to get Japan on it's [sic] feet, while American businesses were unhappy".

    While China has been sneaking around the back door to do some shady business in the alley.

    You mean: "While American businesses were happy to offer Intellectual Property (which belonged to them) to China in exchange for lower production prices, while the American govt was 'Meh, commercial contracts aren't my job'"

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