America worries that Huawei, China's telecoms giant,
spies on behalf of its government and threatens
Western interests. Such concerns are not just about
America's security, but also its insecurity.
By The Economist
February 22, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
Rarely does a country go to war with a private
company. But America has done just that. But is this
really about Huawei or is it something bigger than
that? And what is the threat?
What is this war really about and why is Huawei in
the middle of it?
Founded in China in 1987 Huawei is now the world’s
largest maker of telecoms equipment with revenues
exceeding $103bn. When you think about Huawei you
might think about the handset. That makes sense,
since it sold 200m of them in 2018 alone. But close
to half of its revenue comes from selling network
equipment. In fact, since 2014 it’s outgrown all its
competitors reaching over 3bn people.
This is how networks function - Your phone sends a
signal to a nearby tower using radio waves, voice
and data are passed over an internal network run by
your phone company, which connects your handset to
other phone users and the wider internet. In other
words, these antennas connect us all. But now,
there’s a new kind of network. Although 5G is
massively overhyped, it is coming and Huawei is a
leading force in this innovation. But though this
computerised, smart future opens up new
possibilities it comes with a health warning.
Because if entire networks are vulnerable this opens
the door to countries spying on one another.
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