Christian Leuprecht and David Skillicorn: The move will not deter digital exploitation by China, but it would deprive it of a key advantage
For the 21st century, communications and data will be as vital as oil and electricity were for the 20th century. Communication networks are the basis of business and industry, and increasingly, of social and political life.
The importance of cyberspace to this century is why Huawei has been in the news. Quick to realize the importance of cyber capabilities, China has been strategic in enabling Huawei to compensate for the greater wealth and skill of the U.S. and other Western rivals.
The U.K. government set up a joint organization between its signal intelligence organization, GCHQ, and Huawei to see if they could reach a workable level of trust in Huawei’s equipment. Their latest report suggests this has proven impossible. Even if a switch could be proven to be harmless, all switches must be able to update their software, usually over the internet itself; something that’s innocuous today can readily turn into a vulnerability tomorrow.
On the other hand, there is also a cost do doing business with Huawei. Cyber manipulation poses an existential threat. That is why China refuses to extend reciprocity and has long barred non-Chinese companies from Chinese network infrastructure. The recent Review of the 2018 National Defense Strategy by the United States National Defense Strategy Commission found that the U.S.
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