The original reporting in German: https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/5g-debatte-smoking-gun-neue-beweise-im-streit-um-huawei/25484764.html https:/

The original reporting in German: https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/5g-debatte-smoking-gun-neue-beweise-im-streit-um-huawei/25484764.html https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/5g-debatte-... edit: from the Deputy Director-General SIGINT and NO (Network Operations) Group ASD (Australian Signals Directorate) https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/5g-choices-a-pivotal-moment-in-world-affairs/ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/5g-choices-a-pivotal-momen... > We asked ourselves, if we had the powers akin to the 2017 Chinese Intelligence Law to direct a company which supplies 5G equipment to telco networks, what could we do with that and could anyone stop us? We concluded that we could be awesome, no one would know and, if they did, we could plausibly deny our activities, safe in the knowledge that it would be too late to reverse billions of dollars’ worth of investment. And, ironically, our targets would be paying to build a platform for our own signals intelligence and offensive cyber operations. edit2: Reuters has updated its earlier article to incorporates the denial. The denial was reported two hours after Reuters reported on the Handelsblatt article with this story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-usa-huawei-idUSKBN1ZS197 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-usa-huawei-idUSKB...