Chris Uhlmann & Angus Grigg — How The 'Five Eyes' Cooked Upward The Crusade To Kill Huawei

All the prove earlier the spy bosses at the dinner inwards Canada pointed to a rising superpower mounting the well-nigh comprehensive travail of espionage in addition to unusual interference that whatsoever had witnessed.

The Party was aggressively exporting a worldview that was hostile to commonwealth in addition to actively sought to undermine it.

A novel Great Game was afoot in addition to the West had been ho-hum to act. But it is acting now.Operation hang upwards on Huawei: how it happened:

• February 24 - Malcolm Turnbull lobbied U.S.A. spy agencies to ban Huawei in addition to ZTE from Australian 5G network
• August xix - Turnbull rings U.S.A. President Donald Trump in addition to tells him of the Huawei, ZTE ban
• August 23 - Commonwealth of Australia announces Huawei, ZTE ban
• August 24 - Turnbull dumped every bit Prime Minister
• October 29 - Mike Burgess explains determination to ban “high run a peril vendors” from 5G, cites risks to critical infrastructure
• November 21 - White House slams PRC for increasingly frequent cyber attacks
• November 27 - New Zealand bans Huawei citing “significant network safety risk”
• December ane - Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou arrested inwards Vancouver
• December seven - British Telecom says it volition strip Huawei equipment out of its 3G in addition to 4G networks in addition to volition non role inwards 5G

Chimerica is over.* The novel policy is comprise in addition to isolate.

Sydney Morning Telegraph
How the 'Five Eyes' cooked upwards the travail to kill Huawei
Chris Uhlmann & Angus Grigg

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*Oh, wait. 

The occupation amongst the claim that Xi has been "forced" is that China's merchandise surplus amongst the U.S.A. is truly considerably larger inwards 2018 than it was inwards 2017. For the kickoff 10 months of this twelvemonth its surplus inwards goods has been $344.5 billion.

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