Is the US shooting itself in the foot by banning Huawei?

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Appix

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You know. While Western countries like USA, Australia and their vassalage Japan block Huawei and ZTE countries like Saudi-Arabia and United Arab Emirates have invited them in their country but meanwhile in China they think positive of the West and negative of Muslim countries. I think that should change, rapidly and drastically.
 
lol watch tidalwave not even respond to your rationale

he’s a troll here to stir up shit

China cannot decouple from US supply chain or else it will lose competitiveness.
TSMC is highly dependent on US and European companies for their hardware and materials. It’s impossible to be self sufficent these days. Even US needs ASML EUV machines or there’s no way they can reach 10 or 7nm.
don't use profanity and trolling accusations just like that please
 

PeoplesPoster

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UK Suggests US Worries About Huawei Spying Are Being Overblown
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from the protectionism-by-another-name dept
Tue, Feb 26th 2019 3:23am —
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So, while there's really no denying that Chinese smartphone and network gearmaker Huawei engages in some clearly
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, it's not anything that can't be matched by our own, home-grown
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telecom
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. And while the Trump administration has been engaged in a widespread effort to blackball Huawei gear from the American market based on allegations of spying on Americans, nobody's been
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that this actually occurs. At the same time, we tend to ignore the fact that the United States broke into Huawei to steal code and implant backdoors
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In short, this subject is more complicated that the blindly-nationalistic U.S. press coverage tends to indicate, and a not-insubstantial portion of this hand-wringing is driven by good old-fashioned
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Throughout this whole thing, Huawei executives have been right to note that in the
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, you'd think some security researcher would have been able to prove that Huawei gear is spying on Americans wholesale. And last week, as news emerged that the Trump administration was finally considering a
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, our closest surveillance allies in the UK made it clear that the Huawei threat
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The United Kingdom could undermine an American-led campaign to keep Chinese tech company Huawei out of super-fast 5G mobile networks around the world. The National Cyber Security Centre, part of the UK intelligence service, has concluded that there are ways to limit the risks of using Huawei to build next-generation wireless networks, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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Brumby

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Well, if you asked people what shape the earth is, you'd get an echo chamber too so I wouldn't use that as evidence, certainly not for something being wrong.
You are right in that "echo chamber" is not about right or wrong. It is more about preaching to the choir.

As I said, different countries have different freedoms. To have someone attempting to disrupt society (for self-hate, confusion, insanity or some various treacherous reason) be swiftly removed is a freedom for everyone else. Obviously, to the person attempting to incite chaos, that's a lack of freedom. I stand with those who love their nation and wish to raise society rather than raze it so it's clear which type of freedom I prefer. So once again, the US and China have different freedoms; Chinese freedoms are more beneficial to warm-blooded law-abiding supporters of unity with nothing to hide, and US law is more beneficial to those of deviant nature who wish to test the limits of his capabilities in inciting unrest/disrupting the system. We appreciate the difference and it would be as comical as it is ironic for someone who has never experienced much less understood China to call people who have lived in both China and the US/Europe, "indoctrinated."
It is common sense and necessity that every company follow the directives of the law enforcement agencies of the country that it is under. Huawei must do it. So must US companies. If I'm a client of a bank in the US and I commit fraud, the bank must surrender my financial information to the FBI instead of protecting me as a customer. If I text violent plans to my accomplice and the police demand my records from my service provider, the US company must give it instead of protect me. I understand that there was a case where the FBI needed to crack the phone of the San Bernardino shooter and Apple refused to cooperate under the pretense that it was being ordered to create something rather than provide what it already had and it resulted in a long and expensive legal battle with the FBI finally paying nearly a $1 million for a third party to hack the iphone. This tells me that firstly, Apple would have been required to cooperate had the software already existed and secondly, the US legal system is incredibly cumbersome to both the FBI and the companies that the FBI demands cooperation from. For China, the requirements are similar, though the process would not be so unwieldy.

Laws as you alluded and to the extend that both of us can agree is that they govern societal behaviour between prohibition and permission. Where we defer and that I addressed (not to you directly) is that intitutiions either protect or abuse the laws that are meant to protect its citizens. That was my emphasis in my comments about the behaviour of an oppressed state. If you wish, I am happy to hear your rebuttal concerning my initial comments regarding the notion of freedom relative to the practices of how institutions are abused as a mean to oppress and control its citizens.
 

Brumby

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Now, just don’t use the moral high ground arguments. Whatever the western nations are accusing China of doing, they have been doing it for much longer. Practically, the entire modern western society has been built on the blood and sweat of the slaves and the native people in their colonies. Just go to any museum in a western country and check out the wealth that they have accumulated from their colonies and throughout the centuries of colonization. I wouldn’t consider slavery and colonization a western standard. Yet the west has been doing these for centuries.
I thought the discussion was about Huawei. I presented the reasoning on why Australia considers it a security risk and that a decision was based on risk management. How or earth did it degenerate into some kind of postulation about slavery and colonization? I am happy to have a conversation about moral equivalence and the pontification of moral duties and obligations but this will be seriously off thread.

When needed, the west did not shy away from stealing Chinese technologies. A British gentleman, Robert Fortune, pretended to be a Chinese and stole the trade secrets of the Chinese tea industry. He has been considered as a national hero who “changed the course of history”.
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I don't know the history on this. I have no intention on dwelling into a case where I don't know the history and the facts. In particular I don't know what international and intellectual property laws were prevailing during that period. It is either legal or illegal. Since you brought it up, tell me what laws were broken then.

We are now in 2019. In 2017, China legislated a statute that basically it can at will demand Huawei and any other commercial Chinese companies to be an extension of the state intelligence apparatus. AFAIK, a designated company cannot decline and neither can it disclose publicly that it has become a conduit for intelligence gathering. China by design has decided to take this route. Other nations will necessarily assess the risk and make their own decisions accordingly to a perceived threat and yet the conversation has entirely shifted to become Huawei/China as the victim. Better still some moral equivalence conversation. Please don't insult our intelligence.
 
I thought the discussion was about Huawei. I presented the reasoning on why Australia considers it a security risk and that a decision was based on risk management. How or earth did it degenerate into some kind of postulation about slavery and colonization? ...
yeah noticed some pro-China team members using their version of
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here LOL
 

localizer

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I feel like we’re unqualified to speak about these things. You need a team of lawyers focused on international trade /WTO to explain just what countries can and cannot do.

Any lawyers here? XD
 

Equation

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You are right in that "echo chamber" is not about right or wrong. It is more about preaching to the choir.



Laws as you alluded and to the extend that both of us can agree is that they govern societal behaviour between prohibition and permission. Where we defer and that I addressed (not to you directly) is that intitutiions either protect or abuse the laws that are meant to protect its citizens. That was my emphasis in my comments about the behaviour of an oppressed state. If you wish, I am happy to hear your rebuttal concerning my initial comments regarding the notion of freedom relative to the practices of how institutions are abused as a mean to oppress and control its citizens.


In which country? Define abuse and oppression. In both the US and China institutions are required to cooperate with the government should there be an investigation into the criminal activity of its patrons. Are such investigations the definition of "abuse" and "oppression"?
 

tidalwave

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China military Semiconductor already decoupled from the west.
The Beidou receiver, Loongson CPU, CETC DSP , UnilC memory ,GaN/GaAs AESA transceiver all manufactured inside China and could even done using Chinese equipment only. This is far more than Soviet able to accomplished. Soviet able to compete straight on with US with only vaccum tube technology .

Commercially, it will takes sometimes, soon or later manufacturing firm like TSMC will run into a wall, process can't go below 3 nm that will allow Chinese manufacturing firms to catch up.

At worst case, if US stopped Chinese firms from using TSMC, and Samsung foundry, then China have to give up high-end electronic product for Western countries market. So be it. Everything else China can cover. Definitely be self sufficient and decoupled from US

And then wait till Chinese equipments catch up to western counter part. Like I said before soon or later, limit of physics will be reached, Western firms will hit a wall.
 
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