US digs in for cyber warfare

[xchrom]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NJ13Ad01.html

Recently the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee took a meat-ax to Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, and its little brother ZTE in a 60-page report on national-security issues posed by the two companies.

The conclusion:
They're commies.
We can't trust 'em. Or, as the executive summary put it:
The United States should view with suspicion the continued penetration of the US telecommunications market by Chinese telecommunications companies. [1]
Specifically, the committee recommended that the government
not purchase any Huawei or ZTE equipment.

The committee rubbed further salt in the wound by recommending that private companies not buy any Huawei or ZTE telecommunications equipment either.

It also invited the legislative branch to expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to enable it to block procurement of Chinese telecommunication equipment by US customers, in addition to exercising its traditional powers of blocking foreign investment deemed harmful to US security. CFIUS had previously blocked Huawei's participation in a deal to take 3Com private - which was brokered by Mitt Romney's Bain Capital - and recently denied Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf, a California cloud computing company.

[bemildred]

1. So first we ship the factories and jobs over there, then we decide we can't trust 'em.

And these clowns think they can run the country.

[RC]

3. Correct.

Dealing with Chinese electronics companies is deemed not trust worthy. But it is OK for the Chinese to run the day to day operations of American electronics companies that shipped our jobs to China.
Most people with room temperature IQ's and above would see a problem here. But when our congress critters and agency management personally profit from this, there can be nothing actually wrong here, correct?.

[bemildred]

4. I was in the business in the 90s, we had lots of discussions of the security consequences

of the IT outsourcing back then, Edit: which it must also be said were obvious, but everybody had their eyes on the big bucks.

[leveymg]

2. Integrity of U.S. Corporate data is sacred, preserving American jobs not so much.

[pipoman]

5. Just to be clear..

The food imported from china is infected, the pet food imported from china is infected, the electronics imported from china are infected, and China has 'permanent "most favored trade status"? One of Bill's most obvious blunders IMHO..(probably not actually a blunder, but a profitable indiscretion)