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US Lawmakers Urge AT&T To Cut Commercial Ties With Huawei and Oppose China Mobile Citing National Security Concerns (reuters.com)
U.S. lawmakers are urging AT&T, the No. 2 wireless carrier, to cut commercial ties to Chinese phone maker Huawei Technologies and oppose plans by telecom operator China Mobile to enter the U.S. market because of national security concerns, two congressional aides told Reuters. From the report: The warning comes after the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump took a harder line on policies initiated by his predecessor Barack Obama on issues ranging from Beijing's role in restraining North Korea to Chinese efforts to acquire U.S. strategic industries. Earlier this month, AT&T was forced to scrap a plan to offer its customers Huawei handsets after some members of Congress lobbied against the idea with federal regulators, sources told Reuters. The U.S. government has also blocked a string of Chinese acquisitions over national security concerns, including Ant Financial's proposed purchase of U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram International.
Doesn't China own most of American debt? How's that NOT a national security issue?
All the phones are made in China anyway so what is the difference whose name is on it?
So this basically translates to: "The Chinese are spying on American citizens?!? THAT'S OUR FUCKING JOB!"
This same CONgress/WH, allowed CHina to buy California Pass with massive amounts of rare earth and thorium.
The GOP and this admin are at best schizophrenic.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
This is the classic example of americans insisting they can have guns, and butter, at an equal rate. Schrodingers China has existed in this country for forty years now. Its simultaneously a valued and trusted trade partner in american consumer capitalism, and the scourge of modern capitalism in its communist defiance of the almighty dollar.
Nikita Khrushchev once said: "Communism will dance on the grave of the capitalist and we will sell you the rope you use to hang yourself." These days China has become more of a capitalist dictatorship. It still goes through the party motions of communism and allegiance but the unions are meaningless banners and the equality is a dream long since dead by the sino soviet split. American recognizes this, but its political apparatus after decades of deregulation and acuiescence to powerful multinational businesses like AT&T --which owe no allegiance to a single nation anymore-- is toothless to do anything more than sternly plead with the company to alter its course of business.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Sorry to have to break it to you, but nobody here is gonna shed a single tear over AT&T's discomfort.
No, what they're afraid of is that Huawei phones can be broken into by someone else.
US national security in the IT space is shot to hell, and most of it is the NSA's fault, with Intel a close second. China just needs to stand back and watch...
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
There is manufacturing capacity outside of China
(I might be wrong, but I think that Sony Mobile still has some manufacturing capability in Japan.
India has significant manufacturing capability - used among other by Intex, if I'm not wrong.
Samsung is obviously manufacturing partly in South Korea)
Though to be honest most of these use chipsets - e.g. Qualcomm - with dubious ogranisation (Seriously ? The *modem* functionning as the SoC's Northbridge? If that doesn't smell like potential backdooring).
So even if China happens to not be installing backdoors, that doesn't save you from all the other bad actors.
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No, what they're afraid of is that Huawei phones can be broken into by someone else.
and yet the idiots don't fear apple phones being broken into by someone else
Why is the federal government trying to tell companies who they can do business with?
China is NOT a state sponsor of terror.
The GOP needs to figure out if they believe in freedom or not.
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other companies based in japan or south korea what are the chances that the chips in them are from china,
reminds me of harley davidson bragging about being american made when over 35% of the bike was assembled from imported parts that come from china
its a global economy, better get global or be left behind, dont blame me i did not make it that way, all the corporate elite and wallstreet did it is who to point the finger at
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Republicans vs Democrats? I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords.
I *don't* welcome them. But I sort of expect them. The "sort of" is because it's a timing thing whether the "Chinese overlords" arrive first or the "AI overlords" arrive first. By my estimate there's a better than even chance that the "AI overlords" will arrive first...of course, if the "AI overlords" arrive in China first, then they may be the same thing.
The good thing is if things happen that way it's quite likely that war will not result. The Chinese certainly don't want that, it's bad for profits. And no well designed AI will want war. So there's a good chance this will be another (relatively) peaceful transition of power, as was that between Britain and the US. (Well, WWII wasn't exactly peaceful, but it also wasn't Britain vs. the US. So I'm not counting that, even though it certainly hastened the transition.)
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
what will be left after you're done?
The rest of the world will be left.
Re "No, what they're afraid of is that "
The NSA and GCHQ just expected US brands to keep giving them global collect it all products without users knowing.
The PRISM access. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
DROPOUTJEEP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Junk encryption, global tracking for 5 eye nations.
With new brands from China the people who get into the cell phones in an export nation are city, state, national police.
The NSA and GCHQ got total access with the US brands.
Now police forces are getting the same way in and lawyers, human rights lawyers, FOIA groups will see what police do when they look at a cell phone.
The decades of telco secrecy is gone and the NSA wants its global tracking back without police around the world getting the same functions.
Once police get law enforcement friendly networks they can do what the NSA, CIA, CGHQ, mil, special forces can do globally. The interesting people get arrested and their lawyers, criminals in the police force, cult/faith/community members with telco clearance tell the criminals what was done to their new big US brand cell phone.
Interesting people stop using the cell phone as the US brand trust in encryption has gone.
The NSA wants their secrecy and big US brand trust back or the interesting cell phone networks go dark. Digital collection is all the NSA has to offer and if that goes dark its new funding, political/mil standing goes back to the FBI, CIA.
The CIA, FBI have humans to spy on humans and can still get results in closed faith based communities.
The US monopoly on tech is gone and now everyone with a police force can try been the NSA.
The only way out is to not allow the cell products in and so secure the US big brand/NSA working relationships again.
Security now needs protectionism to stay a secret.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"