To read the scathing condemnation of Chinese telecoms equipment suppliers fired from Washington this week, you would think we still lived in another world. In that world, telecoms networks were built by national monopolies such as AT&T, France Telecomand British Telecom, and outsiders stayed away.
But we don’t.
You know things have come to a pretty pass when US politicians throw their weight behind a French company because the alternative is worse. That would be the effect of barring Huaweiand ZTEfrom the US market on the grounds that they are shifty front organisations for the Chinese government and the People’s Liberation Army.
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