From the state department publication: https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-assets/ https://www.state.gov/a

From the state department publication: https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-assets/ https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-... "Momentum for the Clean Network program is growing. More than thirty countries and territories are now Clean Countries, and many of the world’s biggest telecommunications companies are Clean Telcos. All have committed to exclusively using trusted vendors in their Clean Networks." Looks like the goal isn't to balkanise the global internet. Rather, to create a zone where Chinese companies are banned from accessing it at all by integrating other countries into the Clean Netwok program starting with the US. Unlike China's great firewall which is purely domestic in scope, the Clean Network has global ambitions.