Communication security

The Technology Cold War With China: Why The United States' Strategy Against Huawei Has Backfired

...In May, President Trump signed the "Executive Order on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain." The order “declares a national emergency with respect to the threats against information and communications technology and services in the United States and delegates authority to the Secretary of Commerce to prohibit transactions posing an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the security and safety of United States persons.”

In my opinion, the executive order was much more about protectionism than it was about national security. It was a move in the making for more than a decade, concocted by the largest communications infrastructure companies in the world, and it was designed to stifle open competition and enable these organizations to fight for dominance both domestically and in the global market.

I have worked in the networking infrastructure industry for more than 25 years, which included a rotation in Hong Kong as senior vice president and general manager of an incumbent networking vendor’s $1-billion business across Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China. During this time, I became intimately familiar with Huawei, how it conducts business and what it's like to go toe to toe with the formidable networking giant.