The debate over Huawei’s role in international networking stems from the company’s close ties to the Chinese government and the attendant fears that relying on Huawei telecom equipment\u00a0could expose the allied nations to potential cybersecurity threats and weaken national security.<\/p>\n
How Huawei is dividing Western nations<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Originally, the UK had intended to allow Huawei to maintain a foothold in the nation’s telecom infrastructure in a plan that had received the approval of Britain’s intelligence agencies in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is very good news and I hope and believe it will be the start of a complete and thorough review of our dangerous dependency on China,\u201d conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith told\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0when informed of the Prime Minister’s reversal.<\/p>\n
As\u00a0TechCrunch\u00a0had previously reported, the Australian government and the U.S. both have significant concerns about Huawei’s ability to act independently of the interests of the Chinese national government.<\/p>\n
“The fundamental issue is one of trust between nations in cyberspace,\u201d\u00a0wrote\u00a0Simeon Gilding, until recently the head of the Australian Signals Directorate\u2019s signals intelligence and offensive cyber missions. “It\u2019s simply not reasonable to expect that Huawei would refuse a direction from the Chinese Communist Party.”<\/p>\n
Given the current tensions between the U.S. and China, allies like the UK and Australia would be better served not exposing themselves to any risks from having the foreign telecommunications company’s technology in their networks, some security policy analysts have warned.<\/p>\n\n
“It\u2019s not hard to imagine a time when the U.S. and China end up in some sort of conflict,\u201d Tom Uren of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) told TechCrunch. \u201cIf there was a shooting war, it is almost inevitable that the U.S. would ask Australia for assistance and then we\u2019d be in this uncomfortable situation if we had Huawei in our networks that our critical telecommunications\u00a0networks would literally be run by an adversary we were at war with.”<\/p>\n
U.S. officials are bound to be delighted with the decision. They’ve been putting pressure on European countries for months to limit Huawei’s presence in their telecom networks.<\/p>\n
“If countries choose to go the Huawei route it could well jeopardize all the information sharing and intelligence sharing we have been talking about, and that could undermine the alliance, or at least our relationship with that country,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told\u00a0reporters on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference,\u00a0according to a report in The New York Times.<\/p>\n
In recent months the U.S. government has stepped up its assault against the technology giant on multiple fronts.\u00a0Earlier in May, the U.S. issued new restrictions on the use of American software and hardware in certain strategic semiconductor processes. The rules would affect all foundries using U.S. technologies, including those located abroad, some of which are Huawei\u2019s key suppliers.<\/p>\n
Huawei admits uncertainty following new US chip curbs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
At a conference earlier this week,\u00a0Huawei\u2019s rotating chairman Guo Ping admitted that while the firm is able to design some semiconductor parts such as integrated circuits (IC), it remains \u201cincapable of doing a lot of other things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\u201cSurvival is the keyword for us at present,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Huawei has challenged the ban, saying that it would damage the international technology ecosystem that has developed to manufacture the hardware that powers the entire industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the long run, [the U.S. ban] will damage the trust and collaboration within the global semiconductor industry which many industries depend on, increasing conflict and loss within these industries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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