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US Lawmakers Urge Canada To Snub China's Huawei in Telecoms (reuters.com)
Two leading U.S. lawmakers, both sharp critics of China, urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday to consider dropping China's Huawei Technologies from helping to build next-generation 5G telecommunications networks. From a report: Senators Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, said they had "grave concern" about the prospects of Huawei equipment in Canada's 5G networks on the grounds that it would pose dangers for U.S. networks. "While Canada has strong telecommunications security safeguards in place, we have serious concerns that such safeguards are inadequate given what the United States and other allies know about Huawei," the lawmakers wrote in the letter to Trudeau. Warner and Rubio are on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
"Nobody tells us what to do!" [Buys China's stuff.]
[Insert resignated Pepe meme.]
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Huawei is built off of what was stolen from Nortel Networks years ago.
If Canada allows them in, it would show they haven't learned anything since a crown jewel of Canadian IT was taken from them. They should have aggressively fought Huawei's attempts to sell internationally. It never happened. I always wondered why
When everything now has boards with chips made in China, why even bother?
Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia instead...
So South Korea, Sweden and Finland instead of China... Unless they get their chips from China of course...
"We claim that Huawei telecom equipment is rigged, but even after a whole decade of accusations there is no proof. Nothing. You know since before that our own equipment is rigged, but we still want you to buy it so we can tap your communications."
... Iraq possesses WMDs pointing at our heads.
Maybe it is time to review documents from the Snowden leak.
Now that USMCA is in place, it is absolutely wrong to buy inferior hacked Chinese equipment when the U.S. has products with superior back doors. Let's support 'MADE IN USA' so that the FBI, CIA etc. etc. can listen in instead of the Chinese.
*** Don't be dull.***
Whatever happened to freemarkets? not letting government pick winners and losers? government staying out of private business decisions?
Why don't they warn to the another presidents of the world?
Who are that are selling Trojan Horses to their customers?
Because they do. It's patently dumb to accept known-backdoored Chinese government branded kit in your national sec infrastructure. What should replace it instead? THAT ought to be the question, not whether Beijing does this.
How about you go eat a bag of dicks?
Signed,
Canada
...if it wasn't coming from a treasonous bottom feeder who has consistently turned a blind eye while Russia raped Lady Liberty and put a puppet ruler in the White House. And a Democrat who has proved to be, at best, inept when it comes to managing the worst excesses of Rubio, John Cornyn a couple of other Republicans on that committee.
As a Canadian, I want to be crystal clear: I am NOT saying China is trustworthy. Far from it. China is one of the most terrifying governments on the planet, with their efforts to meet and exceed George Orwell's worst totalitarian nightmare. I certainly haven't forgotten that the technological sell-out giving this appalling regime access to Nortel's patents is Canada's fault. It occurred under the Conservative Party government of Stephen Harper, Canada's most recent contribution to North America's apparently limitless capacity for breeding treasonous right wing pricks. Speaking of which...Marco Rubio is the last person who should be yapping at another country about security when he has sold out the United States of America without a second thought. And Warner should shut up because he's been such a little bitch while his own country is being sold out from under him.
Moderated down for plain, honest speech in three, two, one...
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
hitting his bong every day now that his boyhood dream of pot being legalized dream has come true. Maybe he will embarrass us on the world stage again soon. Dare to dream.
Perhaps we'll see him in Doritos and Mountain Dew or McDonald's commercials soon.
Here's one example of a few that are publicly known among people who can read. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/chinese-company-installed-secret-backdoor-on-hundreds-of-thousands-of-phones/
Huawei has a presence with their office located in Ottawa, Ontario where quite a lot of development takes place. For Canada, a country that's having less and less ASIC development presence as years continue to go by, it would be a blow to the industry from that stand point.
I'm not taking sides as to whether that Huawei is an ethical company (although many have questioned their labor practices of their employees in China), but if you look at ASIC development in Canada, you don't really get that much of a choice of employers in that field.
This is why many Canadians flock to the US for employment.
I'm not sure if Justin is an honest politician.
One that stays bought.
America can eat my bannock and suck my maple syrup.
You want to insinuate "your" trading disagreements into "our" international affairs? Then shut the fuck up and sit down at the table to negotiate a fair and honest trade deal first.
BOTH contain spyware. The US has a long history of doing the things they accuse china of, and they do it to their so called allies just as quick. So now you look at who is being the bigger asshole.....and currently that is the USA.
October 17th is a great day in Canada, Justin Trudeau will have something more important to do this week... this request will be ignored.
China has got Huawei.
US has:
Intel (Intel Management Engine)
AMD (PSP)
Google (Everything they do)
Cisco (Everything they do)
Microsoft (Their OS, browser)
Facebook (Their entire business model)
No proof, but Australia said no, even though Huawei said they could do a complete audit.
Interestingly Huawei said the Euro sounding brands BOARDS were all made in China.
So made in China or Made in China - you choose if you want 5G.
... Canada, we need your help.
We are your friendly neighbor down South, and we are giving you a deal you cannot refuse.
We need you to help our NSA to totally infest Canada.
If you help us, we promise we only spy on your proletariat.
If you decide not helping us, we will spy on your elites, your politicians, your businesses, and all level of your government.
Canada, we trust you to keep us in friendly terms.
It's cute that they can't get along on anything meaningful, like putting a second rapist on the Supreme Court, nor can they actually get the Senate itself to do or say anything together, but two senators (1% of the US Senate) can "urge Canada" to not use a vendor because "we said so."
Canada has its own researchers, which use science to determine whether a vendor is worth doing business with, not voodoo. Canada has its own parliament, which other than the obvious advantage of having people who are still alive practicing politics, and not trying to return to 1973, allows a wide range of opinions to circulate.
Frankly the US would be better off if we listened to Canadian opinions, and not those of evil old men hell bent on destroying our freedoms like Mitch Mcconnel, Lindsey Graham, and Chuck Grassley. These evil old men have one goal in mind -- remove women's rights. Everything else is to be mowed down in this quest to restore the past.
Go, Canada!
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Yeah, about that. Justin Trudeau just made Canada the 51st state.
The 51st state to legalize cannabis dude!
The members of Canada's cell phone oligopoly (Bell, Rogers, Telus) don't compete much with each other and provide terrible service.
All three won't be buying anything (from Huawei or any other vendor) to upgrade their mobile networks anytime soon. It's so much easier for them to provide terrible service and charge too much.
Compared to the rest of the world, Canada's mobile networks are slow and expensive. And they've been that way for more than 20 years.