The incident substantiated suspicions in both countries that China used Huawei equipment as a conduit for espionage , and it has remained a core part of a case they’ve built against the Chinese company, even as the breach’s existence has never been made public, the former officials said.
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In 2019, the United States placed Huawei, Hikvision and other firms on its economic blacklist. Last year, the FCC designated Huawei and ZTE as a national security threat to communications networks – a declaration barring U.S. firms from tapping an $8.3 billion government fund to purchase equipment from the companies.
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Huawei has since been blocked from 5G networks in the Netherlands . Meanwhile, the US had put Huawei on a blacklist, forbidding US companies and citizens from doing business with the company, and in 2020 tightened those sanctions, barring vendors worldwide from using US technology to produce components for Huawei.
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Over the last few years, the Chinese firm Huawei has become an unexpected symbol of technological threat , with the United States rallying allies to limit the company’s global scope. Although it is a private firm, Chinese law and Huawei’s extensive ties to the state have both raised sharp concerns.
Read moreWhy is Huawei 5G a threat?
They claimed that Huawei and other Chinese technology companies represented a serious threat to national security, as their 5G systems could be misused for the purpose of espionage or even sabotage by China (Cartwright, 2020).
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