Can America Stop Huawei's Global Takeover? | Opinion

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Can America Stop Huawei's Global Takeover? | Opinion
ARTICLE BY JAMES GORRIE

The deadly virus originating out of the central Chinese city of Wuhan is making headlines, and well it should. There is the potential for this new coronavirus to spread rapidly from China to the rest of Asia and the West. The virus attacks victims’ immune systems, compromising their health and threatening their very existence. At this writing, there are over 400 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, with at least one in the state of Washington in the United States, and seventeen deaths.

But there’s another high-risk contagion that has spread much further and deeper into many nations of the world, with very serious consequences as well. I’m talking about Huawei of course, and its drive to be the main source of 5G equipment for the world.

As we've covered before, the China-based company is the biggest network equipment and phone infrastructure provider on earth. Its equipment is at the very heart of communications systems in countries across Europe and Asia, as well as in several Western states in America.

Unfortunately, as many are aware, Huawei gear itself is the infection, compromising networks and phone systems with built-in spyware. This enables the company to record, gather, and alter data of all stripes, from the mundane to the top secret, and send it home to Beijing.

The global equipment provider’s violations range far and wide in their damage to the national security, as well as economic viability, of every nation in which their network equipment operates. In medical terms, the “Huawei virus” undermines nations’ immune system, lowers its ability to defend itself in a variety of critical areas, including trade and foreign policy.

In fact, Huawei was the catalyst of the U.S.-China trade war and the threat it poses to U.S. sovereignty is reflected in Trump’s very hard line against it. That also explains why Washington named Huawei a national security threat last November.

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