It's good to be aware and keep an eye on these things, but I find the evidence that this specific election is concerning (at least in this op-ed) to be less tha

It's good to be aware and keep an eye on these things, but I find the evidence that this specific election is concerning (at least in this op-ed) to be less than compelling. > One of China’s Huawei-supported proposals for the International Telecommunication Union would fundamentally redesign internet protocol (IP) addresses into a less secure, state-controlled model. If anything, the last redesign of IP, IPv6, showed that there's very little standards committees can do to push a change like that on the Internet. Not when every individual ISP has to adopt the standard (or bridge the legacy standard) for it to work. So worst-case scenario, a standard is proposed that China and Russia adopt, which (a) has little bearing on what the rest of the world does and (b) is already something they can choose to do unilaterally in the national-level internets without needing UN support.