U.S. to open program to replace Huawei equipment in U.S. networks
I view this as inevitable. Networking infrastructure has a valid national security interest.<p>Companies in China are extensions of the state and tools of foreign policy. Sure these companies are notionally private but the people who own them exist because the CCP allows them to and the price for that is loyalty.<p>I believe this will continue and I fully expect that at some point the United States will deem those born in mainland China, regardless of current citizenship, to be a security risk and they won&#x27;t be allowed to work in areas of national security or national interest.<p>This goes beyond classified material and extends to China cheating on trade including, but not limited to, the wholesale theft of intellectual property through &quot;partnerships&quot; and other means as the price Western companies pay for &quot;access&quot; to the Chinese market.<p>Western companies won&#x27;t &quot;win&quot; in China because the CCP won&#x27;t allow it to happen. They&#x27;re literally giving away their secret sauce chasing a phantom. There&#x27;s a reason why there are Chinese versions of every Western company you can think of that&#x27;s dominant in China.<p>Why the issue with those born in mainland China? Because China doesn&#x27;t allow dual-citizenship. Those that become naturalized in the United States, for example, lose their Chinese citizenship. This then becomes a carrot the CCP can dangle in front of those wishing to return: restoration of citizenship. That is, of course, if you happen to have a particular set of knowledge or skills deemed important to China.<p>What I believe is most needed immediately is reciprocity in trade. That is, if Western companies aren&#x27;t given fair access to the Chinese market (for the record, it&#x27;s China&#x27;s right to restrict this for whatever national interest they wish) then Chinese companies should be similarly restricted in the West.