When it comes to technology policy, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee, is clearly concerned about the power China holds, particularly when it comes to trusting China’s leading tech suppliers and the prospect of a China-dominated build-out of global 5G networks. “My beef is with the presidency, the Communist party. It is not with the Chinese people. I have no interest in trying to go back to some cold war bifurcated world, us against China,” the former telecom entrepreneur said during a panel discussion at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) second annual Cybersecurity Summit this week.
“I would argue that the Chinese people don't want this regime as well. Look at what is happening in the streets of Hong Kong,” he said. “The kind of surveillance state that China is using in terms of their tech companies would make George Orwell's 1984 look simple.”
The cybersecurity and surveillance threat that China poses dominates Warner’s thinking about the country along with the kinds of industrial policies the government has adopted to capture telecom and technology markets around the globe. Controversial tech giant Huawei in particular concerns Warner given the fear that Huawei builds backdoors into its gear to spy on rivals.
“You know when people say, well, show me the [spyware] backdoor in the Huawei equipment today, that's not the issue. There are challenges with the Huawei equipment today,” Warner said on the same day the Chinese company argued in the US District Court in the Eastern District of Texas that a law barring it from doing business with US government agencies is unconstitutional.
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“But the notion of a 5G network, which is a less central switch and ..
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