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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.
except at the usual reaction from the Canadian government is to do exactly anything that the US says. When they say jump, we ask how high?
which is sad, because this is a very transparent ploy to get Canada to buy more US equipment. It's well known that the US equipment manufacturers have put back doors into their equipment in the past, and yet the Chinese ones have never been caught doing so. So really which one should we trust?
Nortel was raped and dismembered by American Vulture capitalists, why you blaming the Chinese?