The United States banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from Huawei and ZTE, opens new tab in 2022 and has encouraged Europe to do the same.
The United States banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from Huawei and ZTE, opens new tab in 2022 and has encouraged Europe to do the same.
Don’t hold your breath on either one. The attempted phase out of Chinese electronics is its own self-imposed economic drag, especially as China’s semiconductor industry takes off while the western manufacturers are hobbled by their fixation on AI.
When CPU and RAM prices get high enough, you’re going to see some very lucrative black markets for sanctions evasion.
Telecommunications equipment and PC parts are not the same
All the major telecoms are heavily exposed to the computer hardware market.
And? Do you understand the rationale behind the existing bans?
The argument - that goes back to the Bush “War on Terror” anti-China tech policy - is that any hardware produced outside the NATO sphere could leave domestic users vulnerable to foreign surveillance.
But scratch the surface of this critique and you find something very different. It’s the US technology that’s riddled with backdoors.
The problem with Chinese technology is that, in many cases, American surveillance companies haven’t penetrated it. A domestic market with Chinese phones and routers and other online gadgets riddles the Five Eyes Panopticon with blind spots.
I think the more balanced take would be both sides are doing it lmao.
Sure. But to say the American entrenchment around American tech companies is some kind of buffer to Chinese spying clearly hasn’t born out in practice. Americans have pockmarked their tech with security vulnerabilities and Chinese hackers have waltzed right through them. You aren’t safer from the CCP because you’re on American hardware. Just the opposite.
Are you truly implying it’d be more secure to buy Chinese tech then US specifically if you’re not wanting to be spied on by the CCP?
That’s quite the take lmao.
Only if your primary concern was US-centric surveillance. If you cared about Chinese surveillance, idfk. Big hanging question mark as to whether American native systems are more compromised than Chinese native systems. All I can say for sure is that American systems are confirmed compromised by both US-friendly surveillance and Chinese hacker groups.
It’s very easy to believe “Thing from China bad because China Bad”. But once you look into the actual security schema for these tools and applications, you discover Americans did an excellent job of leaving their hardware exposed to domestic infiltration and a terrible job of securing it against foreign intrusion.