Huawei as a Target

There are a few articles this week about the continued US interest on Huawei.  The beat on this story has not changed very much, but something is different.  The US is taking a closer look at the Broadcom- Qualcom purchase, stopped the Federal government from buying Huawei smartphones, and expresses a fear that Qualcomm which licenses its chips to Huawei could be damaged by have them restrained by Broadcom.

There is more to this than these kind of statements that express fears of what might be “if”.  That doesn’t happen anywhere else.  There was a 2012 report cited that mentioned Huawei had connections to Chinese intelligence and could not be trusted.  I suspect there is much more known about Huawei than is contained in a 2012 report.  There must be evidence that Huawei is actually doing something that aids or supports their intelligence services.  We are not going to find out what that is, because it is a state secret.  I think there is a better way.  If they are doing intelligence gathering we should know about it so we don’t buy Huawei smartphones or routers.  Our domestic companies should be buying something like that either.  You remember the old commercial with the theme “ Where’s the beef?”  This is a product of having a centralized government that has been prone to use commercial companies to spy on its own citizens and extend that to other people who use Chinese hardware.  Not very nice, and not something we should keep hidden.