Senate Faults Oversight of Chinese Telecom Companies in US (nytimes.com) 13
Senate investigators said Tuesday that government officials had "exercised minimal oversight" of the risks posed by three Chinese telecom companies that operate on American communications networks. From a report: Federal agencies failed to properly follow up on some agreements meant to protect national security, did not provide adequate workers to vet the Chinese companies and operated through a "disorganized" process, according to a report from the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The report looked into a group of officials from the Homeland Security, Justice and Defense Departments, known as Team Telecom, that has historically advised the Federal Communications Commission on the possible national security risks of foreign involvement in American networks. The findings could put pressure on officials at those agencies and embolden politicians from both parties who argue that the United States must move quickly to sever any links between its communications networks and Chinese companies.
Maybe it would be better .... (Score:3)
At last (Score:1)
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lol what? Hong Kong...
That would be like foreign governments trying to purchase grain from New York City, if NYC was not part of the US. i.e. Ain't gonna happen
A much more reasonable approach would be for the US to work with their Allies (EU, Britain, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, etc...) to form a purchasing coalition that refuses to by Chinese goods that have been back doored
Anything else, historically, leads to isolation, nationalism and war
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Well, splitting China off from a relationship with Russia was a major accomplishment under the Nixon administration and effectively limited Communist globalism, leaving the USSR to fail and China to become a major US trading partner
Reversing course at this point only offers to weaken the US position relative to Russia and China, particularly if they re-open trade exclusively between each other
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Well, splitting China off from a relationship with Russia was a major accomplishment under the Nixon administration...
Which happened between 1956 and 1966, once Stalin had died. Nixon had nothing to do with it. Particularly because he didn't become president until 1969.
China became a major trading partner with the US (and rest of the world) due to a change of policy in China, which was the work of Deng Xiaoping.
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You have little understanding of history and do a great job of demonstrating it
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I'm just going to say it (Score:2)
Look, I have karma to spare, so feel free to mod me down. Not that I am intentionally trying to troll or anything.
Tongue in cheek question, What is it specifically about China that people outside of China are really afraid of? I kind of know the answer to it... but outside things like human rights, I don't know why we pick on them so much, and it's always a headline. In the grand scheme of things there are many, many countries that could be as horrible. I guess it's because China produces so many electr
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China is being used by the trump administration as a scapegoat to distract from failings in the arenas of trade and epidemiology
trump would like us to be at the brink of war before the election to scare voters into supporting trump, or as a reason to postpone the election
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1) Softly totalitarian-- with the softness depending on your ethnicity and beliefs.
2) China has been very successful in developing it's economy, in part because of its looseish regulation and cronyism ( i.e. making sure that whatever is good for Huewei really is good for China).
3) The size of China's domestic market entices Western execs to somewhat willingly transfer tech, while their low cost factories make IP theft an acceptable cost of doin
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As an American, I can see that China wants to rule themselves, and have very strong influence over any country bordering with them
just... like... America