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Why Huawei Gives the US and Its Allies Security Nightmares (technologyreview.com)
Perhaps the most insightful piece that sums up why the U.S. and its allies are apprehensive of using Huawei's products. Six reasons, we are just highlighting the pointers, click on the source story to read the description:
1. There could be "kill switches" in Huawei equipment.
2. ... That even close inspections miss.
3. Back doors could be used for data snooping.
4. The rollout of 5G wireless networks will make everything worse.
5. Chinese firms will ship tech to countries in defiance of a US trade embargo.
6. Huawei isn't as immune to Chinese government influence as it claims to be.
1. There could be "kill switches" in Huawei equipment.
2. ... That even close inspections miss.
3. Back doors could be used for data snooping.
4. The rollout of 5G wireless networks will make everything worse.
5. Chinese firms will ship tech to countries in defiance of a US trade embargo.
6. Huawei isn't as immune to Chinese government influence as it claims to be.
7. It's competition to US products.
8. People with Huawei equipment can be spied upon by the Chinese government and not as easily by the US government.
pretty much, everyone in the intelligence industry worry about the stuff they are doing to other countries being done back.
Look at what they are saying that other places are likely doing, and you get a pretty good list of what they are doing to other places.
7. Huawei phones lack the backdoors that allow the US intelligence community to spy on its own people.
That's it, really. They don't trust us, not at all. You really have to wonder why? Why do they feel the need to spy on us and know what we're thinking? Our elected government made this illegal, and the intelligence community promptly broke the law and lied about it.
On March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress that intel officials were not collecting mass data on tens of millions of Americans. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden soon revealed material that proved Clapper's testimony false: The government had been gathering and storing data from ordinary Americans' phone records, email and Internet use.
They don't feel any obligation to us at all. It's OK if they break the laws we passed with our elected government and lie to our faces - they don't feel safe if we can keep secrets from them. Fuck democracy, they have wars to start. If we all started buying Huawei they would feel very unsafe indeed.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
To sell more liquified natural gas of course. The same reason they are trying to convince European governments to block the Nord Stream pipeline.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-accounts-software,37480.html
Kinda says it all...
Chinese firms will ship tech to countries in defiance of a US trade embargo.
Why should foreign entity obey US law is I may ask?
They don't have to obey US law. However, the US is within its rights to say that it will not allow US trade with a firm that breaks its embargo. These days almost every non-trivial item has components that are built/designed/licenced by US firms. So you can trade with, e.g. Iran, but your firm will no longer be able to get supplies of US components, software, equipment, etc. and the US will refuse to trade with you or any of your suppliers. Which pretty much means you're screwed if you trade with a country that the US has embargoed. It's harsh but well within the norms of embargoes. (I'm from the UK and have no dog in this fight.)
So no, the US are definitely no more allies of Europe than China is.
You have no sense of proportion. China lives by completely different rules. They have no respect for freedom of speech or democracy, quite the opposite, and they don't care if other countries do. The US has its flaws, but I'll take a flawed democracy over an oppressing dictatorship any day.
And beyond ecinomics... well, if you're European, it's not like China is out to burn your home, rape your wife, kill your dog. They're on a different hemisphere for chrissake, there's noting to gain for them from indaving another, regardless of whether that's Europe or US. (FWIW, the only country that has a habit of doing that post-WW2, regularly, is the US.)
No, maybe they'll just destroy all your infrastructure that's connected to the internet, including telecommuncations, power supply, and everything else that's needed in a modern society. Japan's being in a different hemisphere didn't stop them from starting an all out war with the US. If the western countries tries to do the right thing and stop China from taking areas from smaller countries in Asia then a war is not an impossibility. I assume you know that China is already doing that by creating artificial islands with military bases.