U.S. Panel: China's Giant Telecom Companies Are A Security Threat

U.S. Panel Calls 2 Chinese Firms ‘National Security Threat’ -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee recommended on Monday that American companies should be blocked from carrying out mergers and acquisitions involving two Chinese telecommunications firms, saying their equipment could be used for spying in the United States. The recommendations, the result of a yearlong investigation, also said the United States government should not use equipment from the companies, the giant Huawei Technologies and ZTE Inc., and that American companies should find alternative suppliers as well.

A report on the inquiry described the companies as a “national security threat” to the United States, saying that the committee had obtained internal documents from former employees of Huawei that show it supplies services to a “cyberwarfare” unit in the People’s Liberation Army. The committee said that the United States government should go through the federal Committee on Foreign Investment to carry out its recommendations to block any business or other transactions involving the Chinese companies.

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WNU Editor: U.S. House Committee's Report on Huawei is here.

As to what is my take .... if China had respected tech copyright laws and conducted a serious effort to combat and stop cyber attacks originating from China .... this debate would not even be happening.