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> No Chinese firm should be permitted to own a controlling interest in any communication system widely used in the US. That can backfire very quickly, when Eur

• hobofan 9y ago
  (Playing devils advocate to some degree:) And maybe European states should. The USA and China (maybe Russia to some degree too) are the only states that have control over the main tech players whose products are used by their population. If there ever were to be a war-like scenario again with internet embargos for Europe, the internet would be a very empty space, smartphones would degrade to next to useless bricks and businesses that switched to the cloud would lose their IT backbone.
• Chaebixi 9y ago
  >> No Chinese firm should be permitted to own a controlling interest in any communication system widely used in the US. > That can backfire very quickly, when Europe is going to say the same – no US firm should be permitted to control any system widely used in the EU. China is a somewhat special case, though. It's an explicitly authoritarian oligarchy that have a proclivity for censorship and control. They should get more scrutiny from other liberal regimes than the US. Though, if Europe wanted to disadvantage US communication products, I think they'd have a more than enough justification by citing NSA mass surveillance.