“If there was a shooting war, it is almost inevitable that the U.S. and China end up in some sort of conflict,” Tom Uren of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) told TechCrunch. “It’s not hard to imagine a time when 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. Given the current tensions between the U.S. “It’s simply not reasonable to expect that Huawei would refuse a direction from the Chinese Communist Party.” “The fundamental issue is one of trust between nations in cyberspace,” wrote Simeon Gilding, until recently the head of the Australian Signals Directorate’s signals intelligence and offensive cyber missions.
both have significant concerns about Huawei’s ability to act independently of the interests of the Chinese national government. “This 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,” conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith told The Guardian when informed of the Prime Minister’s reversal.Īs TechCrunch had previously reported, the Australian government and the U.S. 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.
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