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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: 3, Insightful) by Unixnut on Sunday November 25 2018, @03:33PM
Or in my experience, the "branded" products quality gets worse until it isn't much different to the knock offs.
Not sure when exactly it happened, but from the 2000's onwards it seems the only thing western companies put money into is "branding". They don't bother with quality, they don't really bother with unique innovations and differentiation, now you don't buy an item, you buy "into a brand", whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean.
As a result, most of the time you have a choice between a cheap Chinese white box item for $50, or a cheap Chinese white box item slapped with a "brand" selling for $150. For all bar a minority of shallow narcissists (or people so rich they don't care), people buy the cheaper item.
and it isn't even just networking gear, everything from cars onwards have just become more or less generic boxes with a badge slapped on them, and then marketing folks trying to sell me on paying for the "lifestyle" the brand represents.
The days of a brand actually signifying a reputation of some kind to do with the actual item itself, are long gone, at least in the west.