US Lawmakers Urge Canada To Snub China's Huawei in Telecoms (reuters.com) 72
Two leading U.S. lawmakers, both sharp critics of China, urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday to consider dropping China's Huawei Technologies from helping to build next-generation 5G telecommunications networks. From a report: Senators Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, said they had "grave concern" about the prospects of Huawei equipment in Canada's 5G networks on the grounds that it would pose dangers for U.S. networks. "While Canada has strong telecommunications security safeguards in place, we have serious concerns that such safeguards are inadequate given what the United States and other allies know about Huawei," the lawmakers wrote in the letter to Trudeau. Warner and Rubio are on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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"Nobody tells us what to do!" [Buys China's stuff.]
[Insert resignated Pepe meme.]
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"Shaddap nazi Trump faggots you retards of no value or consequence are being replaced!" [The entire world]
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except at the usual reaction from the Canadian government is to do exactly anything that the US says. When they say jump, we ask how high?
which is sad, because this is a very transparent ploy to get Canada to buy more US equipment. It's well known that the US equipment manufacturers have put back doors into their equipment in the past, and yet the Chinese ones have never been caught doing so. So really which one should we trust?
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Canada and US are 5-Eyes bros.
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The US that wasn't in a trade war with us that didn't call us a national security threat as a matter of policy, we'd probably pay attention.
But as a Republican president once said: "you're either with us or against us", and apparently you've drawn the battle lines.
Oh well. You've made your bed. Now sleep in it.
Selling Nortel's IP back to Canada (Score:2, Insightful)
Huawei is built off of what was stolen from Nortel Networks years ago.
If Canada allows them in, it would show they haven't learned anything since a crown jewel of Canadian IT was taken from them. They should have aggressively fought Huawei's attempts to sell internationally. It never happened. I always wondered why
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Yeah it's called Android. An American made product, for every cell phone that isn't iPhone. You meant that right?
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I thought Android was based on Linux and several other open source softwares. Thanks for teaching me that it is instead an American made product.
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Nortel was raped and dismembered by American Vulture capitalists, why you blaming the Chinese?
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If Canada allows them in
All of The Telus cell network is already Huawei. Has been for several years.
And Much of the Rogers western wireless networks well (though they are in the process of reverting to 100% Ericsson.)
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Nortel? A crown jewel of Canadian IT? Really? Will you tell us next that Canadian Tire is the epitome of quality and customer service?
Why does it matter about the brand (Score:1)
When everything now has boards with chips made in China, why even bother?
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Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia instead...
So South Korea, Sweden and Finland instead of China... Unless they get their chips from China of course...
Here's what it translates to (Score:3, Insightful)
"We claim that Huawei telecom equipment is rigged, but even after a whole decade of accusations there is no proof. Nothing. You know since before that our own equipment is rigged, but we still want you to buy it so we can tap your communications."
and in the other news (Score:2)
... Iraq possesses WMDs pointing at our heads.
Maybe it is time to review documents from the Snowden leak.
Support your neighbours. (Score:3)
Such warning might carry more weight... (Score:2, Interesting)
...if it wasn't coming from a treasonous bottom feeder who has consistently turned a blind eye while Russia raped Lady Liberty and put a puppet ruler in the White House. And a Democrat who has proved to be, at best, inept when it comes to managing the worst excesses of Rubio, John Cornyn a couple of other Republicans on that committee.
As a Canadian, I want to be crystal clear: I am NOT saying China is trustworthy. Far from it. China is one of the most terrifying governments on the planet, with their eff
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As a fellow canadian i wouldnt mind hearing your first hand experience iwth the "most terrifying government on the planet".
Clearly you have been there, experienced it first hand and have some interesting "totalitarian" stories to share.
Signed.. a canadian who actuallly owns a house in there (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilin) and has been there many times.
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So you're well aware that if you said what I said, you'd lose your house. If you were actually in it when you said what I said, you'd lose your freedom, too.
I'm fortunate to know people who lived and grew up there, and got out.
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Don't bother with this creep. Look at his other comments on this thread. It couldn't be more obvious he's a Chinese government troll.
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As a fellow canadian i wouldnt mind hearing your first hand experience iwth the "most terrifying government on the planet".
Clearly you have been there, experienced it first hand and have some interesting "totalitarian" stories to share.
Signed.. a canadian who actuallly owns a house in there (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilin) and has been there many times.
I generally don't comment much here but I just had to reply to this. I grew up in Punjab, India before migrating to Canada in early 90s. Anyhow, I still vividly remember going to Leh, Ladakh & Dharamshala during my summer vacations. While there one would notice the refugees which at the time looked like outnumbering the locals. All those refugees were either Chinese or Tibetans fleeing Chinese persecutions. It was indeed really a sorry sight, and at the time me and my friends did whatever we could at th
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Ah yes.. the classic "Tiananmen" reference. .My wife was there.. Were you or your family?
Does china do bad things? Yes, absolutly and there is no denying that fact.
Do we here in North America have a clean track record?
I'd say things like this were not the best things to do to your own people : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
The dr's and people doing the experiments didnt seem to want to volunteer their own familys, so i guess they had a good idea it wasnt good right?
Current China is probably similiar to
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Thank you for that. It's pretty clear we've uncovered a Chinese troll account. We're far from the only ones here who actually know Chinese people who have fled that odious regime, often carrying no more than the clothes on their back.
Few people find themselves at a place and time where they can make a real difference to the lives of others. Fewer still act. I honour you for your service.
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thats right.. i am at my house in Canada at the moment.. but you spotted the "chinese troll" account.. You and your friends going to do some "area 51" research later tongiht too?
because someone has a different opinion then you doesnt make them a "troll"..
Same post i made earlier.. Do share some of your own FIRST HAND experience from your time in China.. What.. Never been there.. Shocked.. Shocked i tell you...
My long term girlfriend is Chinses.. and yes, she fled china as well (for many reasons)... but it
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For you, yes. The government isn't going to mess with a foreigner who has no political agenda. Try starting an anti-government protest though, you'll be deported faster than you can say "but article 35 of the Chinese Constitution promises the right to freedom of speech and assembly!"
Though I agree the government is probably the least of people's worries. If you work in a tier 1 city, education, healthcare, housing, transportation are all insanely expensive for anyone with a Chinese income and you actually n
Justin Trudope will be too busy... (Score:2, Troll)
Perhaps we'll see him in Doritos and Mountain Dew or McDonald's commercials soon.
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Harper was our national embarrassment, and all the fascist cocksuckers who supported him.
Please try to keep up.
An honest politician? (Score:2)
I'm not sure if Justin is an honest politician.
One that stays bought.
US vs China (Score:3)
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Canada isn't subject to the US Senators' opinions (Score:1)
It's cute that they can't get along on anything meaningful, like putting a second rapist on the Supreme Court, nor can they actually get the Senate itself to do or say anything together, but two senators (1% of the US Senate) can "urge Canada" to not use a vendor because "we said so."
Canada has its own researchers, which use science to determine whether a vendor is worth doing business with, not voodoo. Canada has its own parliament, which other than the obvious advantage of having people who are still ali