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Motives: * Trump has been on at China for a long time. * US establishment growing increasingly worried about the sophistication of Chinese tech and are viewin
by crdoconnor 7y ago
Motives:
* Trump has been on at China for a long time.
* US establishment growing increasingly worried about the sophistication of Chinese tech and are viewing Huawei as a strategic threat. Especially since the latest generation of Chinese telecoms tech has arguably leapfrogged western offerings. Free trade works brilliantly until you stop being the top dog.
* NSA doesn't the idea of Chinese being able to use their tech to spy on US. They'd prefer domestic US companies build tech to spy on us for them instead.
* "National security concerns" is kind of a "get of jail free card" when it comes to escaping WTO rules on protectionism, so it fits in pretty well with the rest of the trade war.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoBBC Click covered the issue https://youtu.be/yCzNHi9TBCQ?t=690 https://youtu.be/yCzNHi9TBCQ?t=690 onwards. They say Huawei claim to be 18months ahead [12m35] of everyone with 5G, and their interview with UK's intelligence advisor [16m20 onwards] suggested that there's not really a security problem. They do talk about [17m04+] the possibility of the network being shutdown and the fallout of that, and have a dramatisation.
- roca 7y agoResearch clearly shows that practically undetectable hardware backdoors are not difficult to build. For example: http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/543048/26931843/1464016046717/A2_SP_2016.pdf?token=N4pJSSoqL4kE4V4JXpTwx7qDRX4%3D http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/543048/26931843/146401... Anyone who says they're confident there aren't any can't be trusted.
- crdoconnor 7y agoIt's not current security issues they're worried about it's future potential security problems at the point where we are utterly reliant on Huawei. Nonetheless the NSA is trying to pretend that Huawei is currently installing backdoors.