Did The U.S. Just Concede Defeat In Its War With Huawei?
Apr 2, 2019, 06:55am
Zak Doffman
Contributor
Cybersecurity
I write about security and surveillance.
Two weeks ago, I suggested that Huawei had won its battle with Washington, and now that seems to have been confirmed by U.S. officials. “We are going to have to figure out a way in a 5G world that we’re able to manage the risks in a diverse network that includes technology that we can’t trust,” conceded Sue Gordon, the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, at a conference in Texas last week.
The U.S. official was clearly referring to Huawei. And the message was equally clear. The U.S. has failed to spark a global prohibition on the Chinese manufacturer's 5G equipment, which they claim carries a major security risk given alleged company links to the government in Beijing.
As to how all of this will actually work in practice, without destroying the West's intelligence sharing arrangements? “We’re just going to have to figure that out," Gordon said. As reported in the Washington Post, the U.S. is now having to plan for a world where Huawei maintains its dominant position in networking equipment as countries shift to 5G. And, consequently, “you have to presume a dirty network,” Gordon explained. “That’s what we’re going to have to presume about the world.”
East versus West
"America doesn't represent the world," Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei had told the BBC in February. Back then, it looked as though the U.S. could prevail in its campaign against the company. But since then the EU has essentially refused to go along with any outright bans, and other countries including Thailand, the UAE and the Philippines have done the same. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where Huawei ran a masterful PR campaign to turn the spying tables on the U.S. themselves, the company claimed that it had signed new 5G deals with operators around the world.
Since then, the company has published a record set of annual results for 2018, with revue growth of 19.5% to catapult them into the Microsoft and Google bracket with revenue above $100 billion. Although their carrier revenues were flat, with growth now more reliant on glitzy new smartphones, the company claimed afterward that network equipment would return to double-digit growth again for 2019.
more @ https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...defeat-in-their-war-with-huawei/#42c46279fb01
Apr 2, 2019, 06:55am
Zak Doffman
Contributor
Cybersecurity
I write about security and surveillance.
Two weeks ago, I suggested that Huawei had won its battle with Washington, and now that seems to have been confirmed by U.S. officials. “We are going to have to figure out a way in a 5G world that we’re able to manage the risks in a diverse network that includes technology that we can’t trust,” conceded Sue Gordon, the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, at a conference in Texas last week.
The U.S. official was clearly referring to Huawei. And the message was equally clear. The U.S. has failed to spark a global prohibition on the Chinese manufacturer's 5G equipment, which they claim carries a major security risk given alleged company links to the government in Beijing.
As to how all of this will actually work in practice, without destroying the West's intelligence sharing arrangements? “We’re just going to have to figure that out," Gordon said. As reported in the Washington Post, the U.S. is now having to plan for a world where Huawei maintains its dominant position in networking equipment as countries shift to 5G. And, consequently, “you have to presume a dirty network,” Gordon explained. “That’s what we’re going to have to presume about the world.”
East versus West
"America doesn't represent the world," Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei had told the BBC in February. Back then, it looked as though the U.S. could prevail in its campaign against the company. But since then the EU has essentially refused to go along with any outright bans, and other countries including Thailand, the UAE and the Philippines have done the same. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where Huawei ran a masterful PR campaign to turn the spying tables on the U.S. themselves, the company claimed that it had signed new 5G deals with operators around the world.
Since then, the company has published a record set of annual results for 2018, with revue growth of 19.5% to catapult them into the Microsoft and Google bracket with revenue above $100 billion. Although their carrier revenues were flat, with growth now more reliant on glitzy new smartphones, the company claimed afterward that network equipment would return to double-digit growth again for 2019.
more @ https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...defeat-in-their-war-with-huawei/#42c46279fb01
