Hold the phone: Huawei mistrust imperils China tech ambitions

Huawei has proven ties to the Chinese govt. The CFO for Huawei was caught with 7, SEVEN, Chinese passports. Ref: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46507974

"People will be intrigued to find out Ms Meng has not one but two homes in Vancouver, and wonder at how she was able to hold seven passports at the same time."

I've seen thousands of attacks originating from China against my servers daily for years and years. That doesn't count the traffic where they use a VPN to appear from other countries.

China was caught stealing corporate secrets from a company were I worked in the 1990s. Nothing has changed in all this time.

Until China behaves like a 1st world country within the international community, reducing their international power is the only real option.

The Chinese people deserve all the same human rights that other 1st world countries have. Freedom of religion, speech, travel, association, and the right to privacy.

Their currency manipulation isn't good either.

Beijing also passed a law in 2015 obliging its corporations to aid the government on matters of national security.

This, that makes it official that Chinese companies are not allowed to say "no" to the Chinese government, that makes the supply of these Chinese products subject to mere Chinese government whims

Remember when the Chinese government suddenly just stopped the foreign sale of rare earth metals in the market they dominate?

Regardless whether Hauwei will be allowed to set up 5G in western countries or not, any product coming out from Chinese factories should be put under a microscope. After all, it has been found that they put spy chip right on the mother board already. And, communication network is strategically very important.