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AFAIK there has never been shown any evidence of Chinese spying in 5G hardware. On the other hand there has been a lot of propaganda and hetz from US authorizes against Huawei. Almost as if they were mad to lose a backdoor of their own.
Huawei has jumped through hoops to disprove that it should be the case that their hardware is compromised, including opening the technology so it can be reviewed by authorities in Europe.
On the other hand we know for a FACT that the US government is spying on us, that has been proven on a number of occasions.
Question is what will happen long term, will we see European competitors like Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens make a comeback, and actually become competitive again? If not there is no sense to this, if all it does is make us dependent on American equipment.
Wrong. Not only is Huawei a state owned enterprise but it regularly relays user info to China. So it is not unreasonable to believe Huawei may be spying on people. Additionally, Reporters Without Borders tells reporters to be extra cautious with Huawei devices and best not use them.
https://resources.rsf.org/why-journalists-should-stay-away-from-huawei-devices/
Also your whataboutism is just a sign of bad faith.
Yes Huawei is partially state owned, which is very common in China. How does that prove anything?
The bad reputation on this is LITERALLY based on US propaganda. Including the situation in this piece that state "strong backing from Washington".
Why the fuck does Washington care which G5 vendor we use?
The US government has been actively spying on European politicians and has been caught on multiple occasions, like this one:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spied-merkel-other-top-european-officials-through-danish-2021-05-30/
Obviously there were also other things revealed by Snowden.
This is not whataboutism, when I'm pointing out that USA has an active interest in being able to continue to spy on Europe. My guess is the Huawei equipment makes it harder. Which is probably why USA propagandize against it.
But apparently people are morons here and don't know what's really going on. Because they can't remember things that happened 10 or 20 years ago. Or they choose to ignore it, which is actually worse.
Obama admitted publicly that USA was spying on "non Americans", stating it was ONLY!!! non Americans, making it legal in his opinion, and that was part of what he considered a good balance of US intelligence!!
USA has zero respect for human rights of non Americans, and zero respect for the law outside USA. This is very clearly also evidenced in how ICE is behaving inside USA.
There is no evidence that China is spying through Huawei G5 equipment, and I bet you can't find any real evidence even if you try. Only American propaganda and false claims.
There is however evidence that Chinese Android phones have done it (telemetry), but that is no different from what Google, Apple, Facebook etc. are doing. And these situation has been limited to few brands, and were poorly hidden, so obviously not part of a state intelligence program.
But for some reason if a Chinese company is caught doing what everybody else is doing, it is immediately blown out of proportions and made into a scandal.
You people are naive, USA is not our friend anymore, they are not participating in this to help us. Huawei offered full transparency, which I bet the competition doesn't.
And there we go with the whataboutism again. Typical. This is about Huawei and the proven security risks, not the US. So stop deflecting to the US.
You clearly don't understand what whataboutism is.