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Huawei sells 5G equipment. Think the equivalent of routers, switches but for cellular network. If they have backdoors then China can intercept and disrupt commu

Huawei sells 5G equipment. Think the equivalent of routers, switches but for cellular network. If they have backdoors then China can intercept and disrupt communication across many countries. That's the concern in a nutshell.

aiCeivi9 7y ago
They did the same with 3G/4G, they totally outpriced Nokia Siemens Networks. Why ban it now?
- WillPostForFood 7y ago
  The current administration sees China as a huge threat, the previous several administrations (republican and democrat) did not. Or if they did, they thought the way to deal with the threat was through economic cooperation.
  - Para2016 7y ago
    China has been a threat to US interests in the Pacific for decades. Now China is the regional hegemonic power which dwarfs the weak US Pacific partnership. China's international influence will continue to grow and they will likely achieve their 100 year plan. That's not really fearmongering, China has plenty of problems but they will eventually succeed.
    - pishpash 7y ago
      I like how you take an overly expansive and hegemonic definition of US interests and make it into another country's problem completely. Nice work.
- pishpash 7y ago
  Because in 5G it is demonstrably ahead technically and for the first time holds a significant number of patents. This is considered a "national security concern" because well, you know, if America isn't number one (USA! USA!) it is obviously because somebody else cheated, and America not being number one is obviously equivalent to the end of the world. /s
rtkwe 7y ago
Yeah the nightmare scenario goes a bit like: 1) Huawei's tech gets embedded deeply in US telecoms as 5G takes over as well as everyone claims it will and includes some buried controls mandated by the Chinese government 2) tensions between US and China inevitably come to a head over something 3) the Chinese government uses that backdoor to cripple US wireless networks 4) various sorts of hell break loose depending on how much 5G has supplanted other wireless industrial control solutions.
gscott 7y ago
Even something simpler as a command to shut down the equipment from remote at China's bidding.

aiCeivi9 7y ago

They did the same with 3G/4G, they totally outpriced Nokia Siemens Networks. Why ban it now?

WillPostForFood 7y ago
The current administration sees China as a huge threat, the previous several administrations (republican and democrat) did not. Or if they did, they thought the way to deal with the threat was through economic cooperation.
- Para2016 7y ago
  China has been a threat to US interests in the Pacific for decades. Now China is the regional hegemonic power which dwarfs the weak US Pacific partnership. China's international influence will continue to grow and they will likely achieve their 100 year plan. That's not really fearmongering, China has plenty of problems but they will eventually succeed.
  - pishpash 7y ago
    I like how you take an overly expansive and hegemonic definition of US interests and make it into another country's problem completely. Nice work.
pishpash 7y ago
Because in 5G it is demonstrably ahead technically and for the first time holds a significant number of patents. This is considered a "national security concern" because well, you know, if America isn't number one (USA! USA!) it is obviously because somebody else cheated, and America not being number one is obviously equivalent to the end of the world. /s

rtkwe 7y ago

Yeah the nightmare scenario goes a bit like: 1) Huawei's tech gets embedded deeply in US telecoms as 5G takes over as well as everyone claims it will and includes some buried controls mandated by the Chinese government 2) tensions between US and China inevitably come to a head over something 3) the Chinese government uses that backdoor to cripple US wireless networks 4) various sorts of hell break loose depending on how much 5G has supplanted other wireless industrial control solutions.

gscott 7y ago

Even something simpler as a command to shut down the equipment from remote at China's bidding.