US President Biden signs law to ban Huawei and ZTE from receiving FCC licences [telecom]

Am Sat, 13 Nov 2021 20:43:43 +0000 (UTC) schrieb Moderator snipped-for-privacy@remove-this.remove-this.telecom-digest.org>:

That's interesting. They don't want Huawei in that position, but Cisco and Sony are fine (maybe because these are American companies that can [be controlled by] their government).

The PRC government implements a policy of military-industrial fusion, wherein "national champion" industrial firms provide support for the military and in return the government's external spy agencies perform industrial espionage to support those firms. The US intelligence establishment believes that this "support" on the part of telecommunications companies includes secret remote access and/or data exfiltration functions that can be invoked by the PRC intelligence apparatus.

(It's perhaps worth noting here that the Chinese *state* does not have a military. The People's Liberation Army is the military department of the Chinese Communist Party, not the state, and to the extent these are hard to distinguish it is because China is a one-party state. But the PLA is answerable to Party leadership and not the government, to the extent these differ.)

-GAWollman