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'You Need To Be Very, Very Cautious': US Warns European Allies Not To Use Chinese Gear For 5G Networks (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tussle-continues dept.

The United States sees the European Union as its top priority in a global effort to convince allies not to buy Huawei equipment for next-generation mobile networks, a U.S. State Department Official said on Tuesday. From a report: After meetings with the European Commission and the Belgian government in Brussels, U.S. officials are set to take a message to other European capitals that the world's biggest telecommunications gear maker poses a security risk, said the official, who declined to be named. "We are saying you need to be very, very cautious and we are urging folks not to rush ahead and sign contracts with untrusted suppliers from countries like China," the official said. The United States fears China could use the equipment for espionage -- a concern that Huawei Technologies says is unfounded. The push to sideline Huawei in Europe, one of its biggest markets, is likely to deepen trade frictions between Washington and Beijing.

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  1. Credibility gap by Roger+W+Moore · · Score: 3, Interesting

    perhaps it shouldn’t be so hellbent on insulting and alienating them?

    ...or spying on us. I have no idea whether the things the US is warning everyone about is true but it does have a bit of a credibility gap warning others about not using equipment from China when we know the US government has been doing exactly this with equipment form US companies. At this point it is hard to tell whether the US is worried about China gaining capabilities or just the US losing them.

    1. Re: Credibility gap by sd4f · · Score: 3, Interesting

      https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-19/5g-huawei-and-us-america-hates-competition

      I'll just leave that here...

  2. Re:Everyone Needs to Understand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The good old false dichotomy.
    Someone who is critical of what China's government is doing must certainly also love what Google and Facebook are doing.
    Just like not cheering for a 3rd person to start pissing on your head, joining the two other people that already forced you to the ground and are kicking you, is apparently hypocritical and therefore invalid logic.

    As someone living in Europe, China is not my friend. Russia is not my friend. The USA is not quite my friend. Of course this includes American companies like Facebook, google, Amazon and so forth as well. They're not my friends. I am not even sure whether I could call some of the EU states friendly. At least not in the sense that I would trust them further than I can throw them. There's always far too much self interest involved and little more than empty gestures and theoretic.
    Apparently the only effective protection against this behaviour is looking out for yourself first. And ironically that tactic only further gets everyone involved entrenched even further.