US digs in for cyber warfare
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NJ13Ad01.htmlRecently the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee took a meat-ax to Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, and its little brother ZTE in a 60-page report on national-security issues posed by the two companies.
The conclusion:
They're commies.
We can't trust 'em. Or, as the executive summary put it:
The United States should view with suspicion the continued penetration of the US telecommunications market by Chinese telecommunications companies. [1]
Specifically, the committee recommended that the government
not purchase any Huawei or ZTE equipment.
The committee rubbed further salt in the wound by recommending that private companies not buy any Huawei or ZTE telecommunications equipment either.
It also invited the legislative branch to expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to enable it to block procurement of Chinese telecommunication equipment by US customers, in addition to exercising its traditional powers of blocking foreign investment deemed harmful to US security. CFIUS had previously blocked Huawei's participation in a deal to take 3Com private - which was brokered by Mitt Romney's Bain Capital - and recently denied Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf, a California cloud computing company.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)And these clowns think they can run the country.
Dealing with Chinese electronics companies is deemed not trust worthy. But it is OK for the Chinese to run the day to day operations of American electronics companies that shipped our jobs to China.
Most people with room temperature IQ's and above would see a problem here. But when our congress critters and agency management personally profit from this, there can be nothing actually wrong here, correct?.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)of the IT outsourcing back then, Edit: which it must also be said were obvious, but everybody had their eyes on the big bucks.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)The food imported from china is infected, the pet food imported from china is infected, the electronics imported from china are infected, and China has 'permanent "most favored trade status"? One of Bill's most obvious blunders IMHO..(probably not actually a blunder, but a profitable indiscretion)