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Preview: Huawei

October 5, 2012 11:18 AM

The Chinese telecom giant Huawei, a global company already doing business in the U.S., may pose a security risk to the U.S. government, industry and citizens says the U.S. House Intelligence Committee. Steve Kroft reports on Sunday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7:00 p.m. PT.

Chinese telecom giant eyed as security threat
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by sengssk October 8, 2012 9:55 PM EDT
COMMUNIST China is not the equal of the United States in its governance, employee protections, environmental laws, transparency or accountability and therefore does not deserve to be treated as an equal. They have not earned it in the community of free nations.

It is Congress that has full authority to direct trade policy, not fifth-column pseudo-libertarian think tanks and lobbyists, not the CATO Institute, the Petersen Institute, the US-China Business Council, the Club for Growth, the Chamber of Commerce or Patton-Boggs.

We must withdraw from and re-negotiate every single Free Trade Agreement on our terms. Every nation should withdraw from the disasterous World Trade Organization and look after their own industries and jobs and trade only when the people decides its in their best interests.

For those who think the US should look out for number one, tell your representative you demand where they stand on Chinese economic warfare: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find

For those Americans who are pro-Beijing free traders, you are nothing more than the next Axis Sally or Tokyo Rose. You are the same ilk that sold IBM census machines to Nazi Germany for a quick buck.
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by wirelessfan October 7, 2012 9:52 PM EDT
I trust US companies more than Chinese companies to protect our domestic security, of course. But, as a consumer, I want low cost broadband.

If carriers in Africa, Brazil, Japan, India and other countries can buy inexpensive 4G infrastructure from Huawei (or ZTE), then why shouldn't US carriers.

If our national security infrastructure is the best in the world, then you'd think they could show proof of spying by Huawei. If there's spying on both sides, maybe it's time to clear the air - even if it opens a can of worms.
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by maxwell_edison2 October 7, 2012 7:54 PM EDT
I think Bill Plummer is a traitor and should be deported.
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by bevigilent October 7, 2012 7:53 PM EDT
Does another catastrophe need to happen before the U.S. wakes up and smells the coffee? We need to protect our interests, our people, our existence FIRST before other countries proffer from our resources.
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by cameling13 October 7, 2012 7:49 PM EDT
Steve Kroft should at least learn how to properly pronounce Huawei. It doesn't start with a 'W' and is pronounced 'huh-ua wei' and not wahwei. For someone who touts himself as a serious news reporter, this is shoddy work.
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by SeanPPratt October 7, 2012 7:43 PM EDT
So the US government does not want Huawei to exactly what the US government is doing? Hypocrisy Alert!
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by lapiton October 7, 2012 7:16 PM EDT
Huawei - The rise, fall and rebirth of the chinese dragon - prophecy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHR8nfU3nXs
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by JK5050 October 7, 2012 10:31 AM EDT
The argument that "Huawei is a business in the business of doing business" doesn't hold up. $32 billion may sound like a lot of money to you or me, but that barely makes the Fortune 100, which only looks at US companies, and it's NOTHING compared to the kind of access to intellectual property and state secrets that this story is talking about. Nice try, though.
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by htn0812 October 6, 2012 11:04 PM EDT
Any companies in communist China can claim that they are not controlled by the government but they will do what the government tell them what it wants done. Just look at how the government tell Yahoo China to hand over identities of the dissidents. Another example is Baidu (Chinese equivalent to Google) is told to block out all info regarding Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and Tiananmen Massacre.
The Chinese government strictly controls the internet in China and spies on its citizens with the collusion of companies likes Huawei because these companies have no choice if they want to stay in business.
So, it's not a stretch at all when the Chinese government tell these companies to spy on americans, steal classified info, steal intellectual properties...etc... especially now that they have the means to do it easier with their own equipment. The Chinese will cheat, spy, steal, and rob you blind. So, wake up and don't let them.
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by KellySpeaks October 5, 2012 8:18 PM EDT
Ah yes another scare tactice.. I truly believe that the Republican Congressman should be more concerned over Extreme Evangelicals taking over our culture and blocking out the rest of us, with their ridiculous ideology, than a Chinese company taking advantage of our free market.. These are the types of things that happen when you have a free market.. As long as this is what Americans will demand, then this is what you will get...
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