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Europe Should Be Afraid of Huawei, EU Tech Official Says (reuters.com)
The European Union should be worried about Huawei and other Chinese technology companies because of the risk they pose to the bloc's industry and security, the EU's technology commissioner said on Friday. From a report: "Do we have to be worried about Huawei or other Chinese companies? Yes, I think we have to be worried about those companies," Andrus Ansip told a news conference in Brussels, days after a top executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei was arrested in Canada as part of an investigation into alleged bank fraud.
Huawei, which generated $93 billion in revenue last year and is seen as a national champion in China, faces intense scrutiny from many Western nations over its ties to the Chinese government, driven by concerns it could be used by Beijing for spying. Ansip said he was concerned because Chinese technology companies were required to cooperate with Chinese intelligence services, such as on "mandatory back doors" to allow access to encrypted data.
He also said those companies produce chips that could be used "to get our secrets." "As normal, ordinary people we have to be afraid," he said, adding he did not have enough information about the recent arrest in Canada.
Huawei, which generated $93 billion in revenue last year and is seen as a national champion in China, faces intense scrutiny from many Western nations over its ties to the Chinese government, driven by concerns it could be used by Beijing for spying. Ansip said he was concerned because Chinese technology companies were required to cooperate with Chinese intelligence services, such as on "mandatory back doors" to allow access to encrypted data.
He also said those companies produce chips that could be used "to get our secrets." "As normal, ordinary people we have to be afraid," he said, adding he did not have enough information about the recent arrest in Canada.
But so far Apple has resisted the mandatory decrypting and back doors.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/05/02/apple-other-tech-companies-continue-to-resist-encryption-backdoor-proposals-by-fbi-us-doj
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/19/apple-fbi-privacy-encryption-fight-san-bernardino-shooting-syed-farook-iphone
https://www.imore.com/why-apple-was-right-resist-government-demands-back-door-ios
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-wants-apple-to-help-unlock-iphone-used-by-san-bernardino-shooter/2016/02/16/69b903ee-d4d9-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.htm
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OK, so we get the occasional nutcase from North Africa intent on suicide for religious reasons, but they kill less people a year than a single home grown, god fearing, gun toting nutcase in America.
You are either an ignorant fool or a troll, possibly both. American government is the main initiator of the Five Eyes program and appears to be by far the most aggressive of spying of any country in the world. American government in particular, has been touting "total information control". Also a lot of what you wrote is totally BS, sounds like stuffs made up from Falun Gong cult member.
Even a foreign company doing business on Chinese soil cannot do so unless a Chinese counterpart (and thus the PRC) owns 51% of the venture.
That is a flat-out lie. You are fake news.
http://www.china-briefing.com/news/setting-up-a-wholly-foreign-owned-enterprise-in-china/
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I won't speak to US related regime change in the Middle East, but here's the list of our activities in South America.
There are 11 countries listed. I didn't read the whole thing, but 30,000 people "disappeared" when the US helped overthrow a democratically elected president in Argentina (circa 1976).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
China does play with their citizens and their neighbors. The US does this stuff world wide (secret prisons, abductions, etc.).
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