US Bans Telecom Giant China Unicom Over Spying Concerns (bbc.com) 25
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: China Unicom has become the latest Chinese telecoms giant to be banned from the US over "significant" national security and espionage concerns. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it had voted unanimously to revoke authorization for the company's American unit to operate in the US. The firm must stop providing telecoms services in America within 60 days. The announcement comes after larger rival China Telecom had its licence to operate in the US revoked in October. US officials said the Chinese government's control of the company gave it the opportunity "to access, store, disrupt, and/or misroute US communications." This in turn could allow it "to engage in espionage and other harmful activities against the US," they said.
FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said: "There has been mounting evidence -- and with it, a growing concern -- that Chinese state-owned carriers pose a real threat to the security of our telecommunications networks." China Unicom told the BBC its American unit "has a good record of complying with relevant US laws and regulations and providing telecommunication services and solutions as a reliable partner of its customers in the past two decades." "China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited will closely follow the development of the situation," it added.
FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said: "There has been mounting evidence -- and with it, a growing concern -- that Chinese state-owned carriers pose a real threat to the security of our telecommunications networks." China Unicom told the BBC its American unit "has a good record of complying with relevant US laws and regulations and providing telecommunication services and solutions as a reliable partner of its customers in the past two decades." "China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited will closely follow the development of the situation," it added.
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Stop the racist rhetoric against Chinese. Please, go out an hug a random Chinese to make up for this injustice.
https://www.westernjournal.com... [westernjournal.com]
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Please, go out an hug a random Chinese
Where the fuck have you been for the last two years? Hug a random Chinese? Oh yeah.. That's what I want, COVID-22.
You're an idiot.
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Not enough proof. In order to be sure you'd need to:
1. Come up with something people overlooked for Obama/Biden.
2. Then the media raises a stink over it under Trump.
3. Then Biden resumes doing and the media ignores it.
4. Bonus points if Biden does it more than Trump ever did.
https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/... [twitter.com]
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20 people from [Huawei | China Telecom | Whatever ] come in the room for a meeting. Led by a director "in charge" of the delegation. Who is in charge? The director? F*ck no. The person in charge is the party secretary which is inconspicuously sitting at the corner of the table and pretending to be a mere sales rep. Is he really in charge? If the meeting is not very important - yes. If it is something major, there is also the internal security guy who is prete
China Unicom HAD a good record. (Score:5, Interesting)
Is that a misspelling? (Score:2)
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Chinese tech Juggernaut.
That's a good one. You should go pro.
Those cocksmokes can't even write stable router software.
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They are many more countries than America to sell in.
And not a single one of them with anything approaching the combined purchasing power of the United States. Your statement is proof you're an idiot. You can't sell goods to poor people, you fucking idiot.
Yeah, Andorra may be on par, person-to-person with the US, but there's like... 50,000 of those fuckers versus 325,000,000 Americans.
You're a tard.
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You do know that the US had significant trade both with the 3rd Reich and the USSR, right? There was some scandal about IBM selling the computing infrastructure to that made the Holocaust possible...
Incidentally, the US has significant trade with China these days. See, for example, https://www.census.gov/foreign... [census.gov]
This makes your lie obvious.
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You do know that the US had significant trade both with the 3rd Reich and the USSR, right?
Not with the 3rd Reich. What the fuck are you talking about? As for the USSR? No shit, Sherlock. They were our allies during WW2. We were supplying them with vast quantities of arms from the very beginning of the war.
There was some scandal about IBM selling the computing infrastructure to that made the Holocaust possible...
That's precisely why it was a scandal, genius. Trade with Hitler was illegal.
Nice try (Score:1)
There is no racism against China here. Any Communist one-party state in which if you criticize the party or worse yet try to start a competing party you will be thrown in jail with no recourse – and your imprisonment would all be perfectly legal – would get the same treatment on this site. So, actually the criticism here is not specific to just China.