> screaming at everyone that big evil China is trying to steal all of our secrets It is well established that China, including huawei have been stealing a lot

> screaming at everyone that big evil China is trying to steal all of our secrets It is well established that China, including huawei have been stealing a lot of intellectual property, many of their products (initially at least) are simply reverse-engineered copies of western products of other companies. Huawei specifically have been known to steal Cisco's software and hardware. This is not something that happens on a single occasion, this is a top-down controlled practice and culture, in Huawei and in China in general. In light of this, why wouldn't they be stealing secrets if they have the chance to? Why would we treat it differently compared to western spying? Numerous reasons, but just off the top of my head, because the west at least has patent laws and if Huawei was a US company, Cisco would take them to court and redeem their losses, and it would work. In China however, it does not work, because they don't enforce intellectual property laws on a government level. If the whole government is ok with their companies stealing secrets, why on earth would we think that many of their companies including Huawei are not still doing it?