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America's Latest Effort To Thwart the Growth of China's Huawei is Playing Out Beneath the World's Oceans (wsj.com)
A new front has opened in the battle between the U.S. and China over control of global networks that deliver the internet. This one is beneath the ocean. [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; syndicated source.] From a report: While the U.S. wages a high-profile campaign to exclude China's Huawei from next-generation mobile networks over fears of espionage, the company is embedding itself into undersea cable networks that ferry nearly all of the world's internet data. About 380 active submarine cables -- bundles of fiber-optic lines that travel oceans on the seabed -- carry about 95% of intercontinental voice and data traffic, making them critical for the economies and national security of most countries. Current and former security officials in the U.S. and allied governments now worry that these cables are increasingly vulnerable to espionage or attack and say the involvement of Huawei potentially enhances China's capabilities.
Huawei denies any threat. The U.S. hasn't publicly provided evidence of its claims that Huawei technology poses a cybersecurity risk. Its efforts to persuade other countries to sideline the company's communication technology have been met with skepticism by some. Huawei Marine Networks, majority owned by the Chinese telecom giant, completed a 3,750-mile cable between Brazil and Cameroon in September. It recently started work on a 7,500-mile cable connecting Europe, Asia and Africa and is finishing up links across the Gulf of California in Mexico. Altogether, the company has worked on some 90 projects to build or upgrade seabed fiber-optic links, gaining fast on the three U.S., European and Japanese firms that dominate the industry. These officials say the company's knowledge of and access to undersea cables could allow China to attach devices that divert or monitor data traffic -- or, in a conflict, to sever links to entire nations.
Huawei denies any threat. The U.S. hasn't publicly provided evidence of its claims that Huawei technology poses a cybersecurity risk. Its efforts to persuade other countries to sideline the company's communication technology have been met with skepticism by some. Huawei Marine Networks, majority owned by the Chinese telecom giant, completed a 3,750-mile cable between Brazil and Cameroon in September. It recently started work on a 7,500-mile cable connecting Europe, Asia and Africa and is finishing up links across the Gulf of California in Mexico. Altogether, the company has worked on some 90 projects to build or upgrade seabed fiber-optic links, gaining fast on the three U.S., European and Japanese firms that dominate the industry. These officials say the company's knowledge of and access to undersea cables could allow China to attach devices that divert or monitor data traffic -- or, in a conflict, to sever links to entire nations.
So? Is Huawei a black pot or a black kettle?
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Current threats: US government, Google, Facebook, Huawei (but no evidence)
Previous threats: US government, USSR
Actually, Saddam did have chemical weapons. WMD's. Yes, he did. He did not have a nuclear program advanced as advertised by Dick Cheney's cassus belli, and his biological program had been buried.
Mentioning it constantly doesn't make the allegations against Huawei, a directly-owned and fraudulently controlled tentacle of the Chinese Communist Party, any less guilty or any less of a threat to western interests.
I don't see why you're so keen to make apologies or excuses.
He already said that Saddam had them. At one point. And we know this BECAUSE WE HAVE THE RECEIPTS. Learn to fucking read. Claims that Huwaie is directly owned by the chinese communist party and claims they are fraudulently so are meaningless US propaganda claims based on screaming hatred, bigoted ideology and a terror at losing a huge wodge of cash in the free market if the freedoms of the market are not curbed to protect the USA.
The United States is worried that China is doing in 2019 what the USA did starting in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Look, this whole Huawei is selling equipment that can be used to spy would be very simply solved if the U.S. would show some proof. If they can't do that then they are either lying, aren't technologically able too or haven't been able too because Huawei can come straight back with U.S. equipment and show how it is being used to spy. Since 9/11 the U.S. has been a political disaster on the world stage and they just aren't trusted anymore. Not even by their allies.
I reserve the write to mangle english.
Claiming "you don't have to like" when nobody has said what the like or do not is irrelevant. You're utterly pandering US propaganda and the bullshit done because capitalism cannot handle competition, even in capitalism.
The point was mentioned because YOU are a moron. The OP already said he had them, shithead. The fact is that WE SOLD THEM TO HIM. That is how we knew he once had them. We ALSO knew that he no longer DID have them. You're a brainless thug for idiocracy USA.
that the USA is a CURRENT threat, not potential, and that claiming this threat is a non-issue nothing burger. Since we all agree that the USA CURRENTLY does this, and yet we still run networks using these hacked and spied on connections, there's no need to not buy Huwei stuff. There is no additional risk. And there is a potential that there's less.
Confirm the claims and all you have is that there's only a choice of whether we let China or the USA spy on us, so no real reason for people to stop buying from China: china hasn't black bagged people from foreign countries. Meaning China is still a better security bet. Just not a secure one.
However you have fuck all other than accusation as your "evidence". If say so is evidence, then Huwei say they don't, so proof as good as yours that they don't spy on anyone.
Just like the Republicans view of Democrats, the U.S. intelligence agencies are thinking, "We're wiretapping all the undersea cables, so obviously the Chinese will too if they get the chance!"
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.