Trump Has This One Right: Chinas 5G Is A Real National Security Threat

(Boston Globe) Larry Edelman January 28 2019 Forget about the wall and worry about the back door. Thats my takeaway from yesterdays eye-opening and somewhat scary front-page story in The New York Times about the US governments efforts to persuade allies and other countries to shun next-generation mobile phone networks made by Huawei Technologies and other Chinese companies. Unlike President Trumps phony immigration crisis Chinas potential ability to infiltrate so-called 5G networks is a real security threat. This time the president has it right. Nervousness about Chinese technology has long existed in the United States fueled by the fear that the Chinese could insert a back door into telecom and computing networks that would allow Chinese security services to intercept military government and corporate communications" according to the Times story by David E. Sanger Julian E. Barnes Raymond Zhong and Marc Santora. But the concern has taken on more urgency as countries around the world begin deciding which equipment providers will build their 5G networks."