to think of a better reflection of the rise of China than the rise of Huawei. Like China, the firm, which was founded in 1987, began at the bottom of the value chain, reselling telephone-switching gear imported from Hong Kong. Also like China, it was not content to stay there. These days its products—from smartphones to solar panels—are sleek, high-tech and competitive with anything its rivals can produce. As a result its revenues have soared, hitting $105bn in 2018 .
Mike Pompeo, America’s secretary of state, has threatened to withhold intelligence co-operation from anyone who uses the firm’s gear in “critical” networks. Australia, like Britain one of America’s allies in the “Five Eyes” electronic-spying pact, has banned the firm explicitly. New Zealand, another member, has rebuffed a request from a local firm to use Huawei’s kit. Japan—which is not in the club, but is closely allied to America—has tightened its rules.
Britain’s stance matters more than the middling size of its telecoms market suggests. The country’s signals-intelligence agency,, is the biggest in the Five Eyes after America’s National Security Agency , with which it works hand-in-glove. And few countries know more about how Huawei operates. Britain was one of the firm’s first beachheads in the West. In 2005 Huawei was chosen by, a formerly state-owned telecoms company, to be part of a £10bn contract to modernise Britain’s phone network.
But there is more to worry about than back doors and here Britain’s findings have been less reassuring. In the’s most recent report, published in March, it suggests that the code in Huawei’s products is a buggy, spaghettified mess. That may not sound sinister. But bugs can be as useful to hackers as any back door.
, a widely used set of cryptographic protocols designed to secure data travelling over networks. Researchers frequently find security flaws in Open, meaning that sticking to the newest versions is vital. Huawei’s kit, it seems, is at risk from hackers of all kinds, not just Chinese state-sponsored ones. Insiders blame this sloppiness at least partly on the same commercial agility that has made Huawei so popular among its customers for its speedy introduction of new products.
Cyber-security, sanctions-busting and Tappy are, in turn, only parts of an argument that is fundamentally about the relationship between technology and geopolitics, says Janice Stein at the University of Toronto. America, the incumbent superpower, is under no illusions about the relationship between technology and power, of both the hard and soft sort. Neither is China, which aspires to the same status. Huawei is widely seen as a Chinese national champion.
We need Johnny English to investigate..
talk a lie,huawei has never done that
Duh
The Peking horse.
Like Apple was rumoured to have in the iPhone?
Is Huawei’s backdoor any different than Microsoft’s backdoor or Apple’s or Google’s or Siemen’s or Samsung’s? Or is that for “customer support”? There is no software out there where the company does not have remote access. Anybody who is surprised about such things better wake up
What about iphone?
Same happens with europeans...
They are a bad state actor that has been doing this at the behest of China’s govt, about time someone woke up in the US.
cisco contains malicious code as Dutch media reveals ，not huawei
it is the trade war no security. For that matter US security is a joke when a 13 year old boy can hacked into US defence systems & Russia dip in and out as and it likes.
Is there any evidence？or is just Political persecution
You mean like apple and google? You are probably also guilty of the same. Forget the fear.
Cisco has been spying all the world for several years
What an interesting thought... Channelling data from the west to China could create some wonderful collaboration and understanding. Is it necessary/helpful to have so much fear?
Curious that Ivanka got Chinese trademarks machines. Does she think that her father's concerns about Chinese tech doesn't matter when it has to do with elections? Any other lax tech policy around elections at the WH?
They know that because they're doing the same. Just think about it.
I understand The Economist dislike Trump but unfortunately he’s the only US president who actually did something useful to counter the CCP regime
National security card has been pulled to do the magic it does: rationalise irrational decisions, create fear and win elections
alternative take, Trump and his son in law are using US policy to benefit themselves their friends and their backers.
No 'America KNOWS Huawei's gear is designed to enable hacking by Chinese agents' But its not just Huawei that is investing in spying on everyone Every Corporation & Government has discarded Integrity & is coding spyware in every App The Age of InformationTyranny has arrived
One way to rally voters is thru fear.
May_Roma Hey, Obama, where are you?
Huawei is the new Bishop
they think too much that unnecessary
Reminds me of those who flee the asylum and attack civilians in the name of self-defense.
Unlike all those American Apple iphones - which are made in China?
The USA fears, the products show that they are better tech for a lower price.