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US Lawmakers Urge Canada To Snub China's Huawei in Telecoms (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tussle-continues dept.

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.

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  1. Next by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 2

    "Nobody tells us what to do!" [Buys China's stuff.]

    [Insert resignated Pepe meme.]

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    1. Re:Next by green1 · · Score: 4, Informative

      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?

  2. Selling Nortel's IP back to Canada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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

    1. Re:Selling Nortel's IP back to Canada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Nortel was raped and dismembered by American Vulture capitalists, why you blaming the Chinese?

    2. Re:Selling Nortel's IP back to Canada by kent_eh · · Score: 2

      If Canada allows them in

      All of The Telus cell network is already Huawei. Has been for several years.
      And Much of the Rogers western wireless networks well (though they are in the process of reverting to 100% Ericsson.)

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  3. I guess you could go with by bobstreo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia instead...

    So South Korea, Sweden and Finland instead of China... Unless they get their chips from China of course...

  4. Here's what it translates to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "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."

  5. Support your neighbours. by XB-70 · · Score: 2

    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.

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  6. Such warning might carry more weight... by hyades1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...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.

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    1. Re:Such warning might carry more weight... by Stealthey · · Score: 3, Interesting

      As a fellow canadian i wouldnt mind hearing your first hand experience iwth the "most terrifying government on the planet".
      Clearly you have been there, experienced it first hand and have some interesting "totalitarian" stories to share.

      Signed.. a canadian who actuallly owns a house in there (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilin) and has been there many times.

      I generally don't comment much here but I just had to reply to this. I grew up in Punjab, India before migrating to Canada in early 90s. Anyhow, I still vividly remember going to Leh, Ladakh & Dharamshala during my summer vacations. While there one would notice the refugees which at the time looked like outnumbering the locals. All those refugees were either Chinese or Tibetans fleeing Chinese persecutions. It was indeed really a sorry sight, and at the time me and my friends did whatever we could at the moment to help them. We didn't have much cash, but we tried to help by giving whatever we had and also extra clothes that we had for our trip.
      I recall seeing 2-3 year old kids who were rescued by fleeing refugees and nobody knew who they belong to, because Chinese government had killed indiscriminately when annexing Tibet. With annexation of Tibet,Chinese government knew then, that they can do anything and rest of the world either doesn't care or too scared to get involved. Yes there was sanctions and noise...but nothing of effect.

      My second trip the next was literally a helping mission, when we asked for donations from nears and dears to take there. I still remember how much they appreciated getting old clothes, pots and pans. But to the see the suffering of those people was gut wrenching. Indian government was trying to do whatever it could by providing some(barely) medical services etc. But yeah, Chinese government (not people) if not the most terrifying certainly is up there in committing atrocious crimes against its own citizens and that of its neighbors.

      It may very well be that my experiences might have influenced my bias, but Sir, you cannot in good conscience say that Chinese government doesn't commit atrocities. They may very well do lot of good and humane things but that doesn't negate the facts.

      I shall end this with an obvious references to:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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  7. US vs China by sit1963nz · · Score: 2

    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.