Interesting news late Q3 2021, the US federal just reached some kind of agreement with a Chinese company named Huawei to release her by requesting extradition from Canada.
It's kind of strange to think the whole thing through. On the one hand, she was captured due to her involvement in a company that allegedly sells equipment to Iranian government. Iran was then a terrorizing enemy of USA and… presumably stopping Huawei from selling equipment to Iran because that equipment when used in Iran could cause USA harm.
However, at the same time, under the same former president Trump, the US lead several countries such as Canada, France and England to officially ban purchase of Huawei equipment for use in their countries. Because presumably the equipment is substandard for some reason.
The details of these political decisions are not clear. From a technical perspective, it might be really interesting to know exactly what spying capabilities Huawei equipment has. On the other hand, it would also be very interesting to find out why that same disabling capabilities are not useful to us when sold to Iran.
The US being unable to deal with Huawei network equipment might be a technical failing as well. One wonders why we couldn't develop mitigating systems to counter sabotage the alleged spying capabilities? I may be very naive, but honestly, didn't the US invent wire tapping? I mean we invented the wires and telephones to start with… and who invented the internet but the American military? why is it that we can't deal with a few piece of internet equipment ?
Overall, another aspect is that the lack of serious competition will also slow down the democratization of internet services. In all honesty, a country like America, shouldn't we have had a mini-musk or a mini-jobs that comes to the foreground to kick that PRCPLC company's ass? It can even be lead by a former soldier in the Is army! Or maybe the much lauded marine can have an ex that creates a company and fights back, the proper capitalistic way.
Because for gosh sakes I sure can appreciate cheaper, or at least slower appreciating, cellphone and internet prices, equipment, subscription and all. (and I will quickly hope superfluously that it is a result of free market competition)
The fact that American intelligence can't get basic information from Chinese counterparts about Iran, once their equipment is deployed, is quite troubling.
I would have thunken that the two country were on better terms than this. Bombs exploding on home soil is to be prevented, and our super powers should absolutely be aligned on this matter. If China knew Iran has a very successful plan to sail a ship into the Statue of Liberty, wouldn't they tell us? It sure doesn't hurt them any, but would save innocent peoples' lives—obviously many of those tourist had been mostly Chinese nationals anyways. And if US has eyes o a Uighur faction setting up a bit rocket to blow up Ürümqi wouldn't we tell somebody so all those innocent people, and many tourists of American origin, don't have to die?
Perhaps with a new era being ushered in by this radical president Biden, the world can move to a significantly more peaceful and happy time for all. Ending the war in Afghanistan, ending this stupid and self-contradicting extradition of Huawei, … man, this real world is more exciting than watching all the Star Trek series coming out on NBC! More exciting than Dune and Foundation debuting in the same week! And definitely much more exciting than billionaires flying themselves and friends to "the space."
Real world radical changes are afoot!
Let's see what happens next!
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