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[webfact]

Pompeo says world should have eyes wide open about Chinese tech risks

 

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines, March 1, 2019. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

 

MANILA (Reuters) - U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday that the world should be "eyes wide open" about the risks of using Chinese technology, and that there could be problems for American firms operating in certain places where Huawei equipment was deployed.

 

Pompeo was asked during a visit to Manila about the prospect of the Philippines using Huawei 5G technology in future as it seeks to modernise outdated telecoms infrastructure.

 

"Our task has been to share with the world the risks associated with that technology: the risks to the Philippine people, the risk to Philippine security, the risk that America may not be able to operate in certain environments if there is Huawei technology adjacent to that," he told a news conference.

 

"We want to make sure that the world has their eyes wide open as to the risks of having that technology to be part of infrastructure, backbone or networks."

 

The U.S. government has been piling pressure on Huawei, the world' s biggest telecommunications equipment maker and trying to prevent American firms from buying Huawei routers and switches, as well as advising allies to do the same.

 

(Reporting by Martin Petty, Neil Jerome Morales and Karen Lema; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)

 

 -- © Copyright Reuters 2019-03-01

 

[pegman]

Not buying it Mike. You Americans spend more on spying than the rest of the world combined.

[mtls2005]

Quickly find a shiny object to distract from the several hundred buffoonish mistakes this administration has made.

 

Reach into the bag, and tell the studio audience what we have Mike.

 

Chiner.

 

Queue Central Casting...

 

 

[billd766]

The USA was once the world leader in cellular technology with Motorola ahead of Nokia. Siemens etc. I know as I worked for Motorola for over 10 years.

 

Where are they now including all the jobs.

 

Long gone mostly and sold off. through inept senior management.

 

[Srikcir]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

"We want to make sure that the world has their eyes wide open as to the risks of having that technology to be part of infrastructure, backbone or networks."

Okay, warning heard.

Move on.

How about stopping China export of chemicals used to manufacture opioids and meth?