Pentagon Bans Sale of Chinese Phones on U.S. Military Bases

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast




The Pentagon is moving to stop the sale of Chinese-made phones from Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. in and near U.S. military base stores for “potential security threats” they say the devices could pose. The Wall Street Journal reports officials have said the Chinese government “could order Chinese manufacturers to hack into products they make to spy or disable communications,” although Huawei and ZTE have said they would never let that occur. A source told the Journal that the Pentagon is specifically concerned about Beijing tracking U.S. troop whereabouts with the phones. Huawei is the third largest mobile-phone maker in the world, behind Apple and Samsung. ZTE is the fourth largest seller of phones in the U.S. market. The retail stores affected would be in and around military bases, as well as ones overseas that “cater to American soldiers and sailors.”

READ IT AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-bans-sale-of-chinese-phones-on-us-military-bases

[Sherman A1]

1. Good

Hopefully all others are reviewed in regards to cyber security as well.

[DetlefK]

2. The chinese government has a majority stake in every single major chinese corporation.

And the chinese government is ACTIVELY PREVENTING foreign investors from gaining majority-stakes in chinese companies.



Would you buy a Smartphone from a company that's controlled by the government?

[Nitram]

3. Good idea.

[bullwinkle428]

4. Those companies make lots of the cheap smartphones that are

used by low-cost carries like Tracfone. I have no doubt they sell lots of those phones on military bases, given how poorly many of the enlisted personnel in particular are paid.

[matt819]

5. Ok. . .

Are they going to ban Chinese-made phones from being on US military bases? If not, then this is fundamentally pointless.

Also, check back in a year, and I'd put money on the likelihood that Chinese phones are still available for sale on US military bases.

And what's the cost of this decision? How many thousands of Chinese-made cell phones are currently available for sale on US military bases worldwide right now? What happens to those phones? Returned? I think not. Destroyed? Yeah, right. Someone is going to find a way to make personal money from this seemingly simply and probably sensible decision.

Also want to ask the question about from when, and for how long chinese phones have been available on US military bases.

[keithbvadu2]

6. U.S. soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information by jogging

U.S. soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information by jogging

Via Fitbits actually given away to soldiers by the Army

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=cdfpWqbqOsTX5gKN5IPwDQ&q=U.S.+soldiers+are+revealing+sensitive+and+dangerous+information+by+jogging&oq=U.S.+soldiers+are+revealing+sensitive+and+dangerous+information+by+jogging&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0.5280.5280.0.6860.3.2.0.0.0.0.100.100.0j1.2.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.2.208.6..35i39k1.108.vS3usUthXDU

[BumRushDaShow]

7. "Chinese-made phones"

like, um, Apple?

[jmowreader]

8. Huawei and ZTE are partially owned by the Chinese government

Apple is a US-based company, and Samsung a Korean-based one.

[truthisfreedom]

9. Construction is everything.

They can be ordered to insert whatever.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. As post #9 noted - makes no difference

The assembly of Apple products is (predominately) being done in China. And Chinese oligarchs are making huge efforts at acquiring chip technology (whether outright by buying the companies or by buying stakes in them) and they have Taiwan's own hub (that makes Apple's A10 CPU) right there in their backyard.

There have been articles about this for years. One interesting one is here - https://www.wired.com/2016/06/demonically-clever-backdoor-hides-inside-computer-chip/

[keithbvadu2]

11. Senate Republicans drop bid to block Trump from helping Chinese telecom giant ZTE

Pentagon Bans Sale of Chinese Phones on U.S. Military Bases (ZTE)

The Pentagon is moving to stop the sale of Chinese-made phones from Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. in and near U.S. military base stores for “potential security threats” they say the devices could pose.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-bans-sale-of-chinese-phones-on-us-military-bases

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142050357

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ZTE

https://pilotonline.com/news/nation-world/national/article_3e99ca4a-b8bc-5b0e-b7b8-d7a7ffe9c06c.html



"Too many jobs in China lost," Trump tweeted... Such concern!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142058871

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/387515-schumer-hits-trump-for-offering-aid-to-chinese-company-how-about-helping


Senate Republicans drop bid to block Trump from helping Chinese telecom giant ZTE

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142115196

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/senate-republicans-cave-to-trump-on-deal-with-chinese-telecom-giant-zte/2018/07/20/28ae5820-8c3f-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html
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UPDATED: Trump pledges to help Chinese phonemaker ZTE 'get back into business'

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142058783

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/05/13/trump-pledges-to-help-chinese-phone-maker-zte-get-back-into-business/?utm_term=.7f2fcafb7710

ZTE, a company involved in hacking American cyber security.


A $500 million loan to Trump related projects works wonders to make America protect Chinese jobs. And some patents for Ivanka.

Too bad our coal miners did not think of that.