Flying home on Air Force One last Saturday, President Donald Trump talked to reporters about his successful dinner chat with General Secretary Xi Jinping, declaring: It’s an incredible deal. It goes down, certainly—if it happens, …
Governments rarely monitor and evaluate their diplomatic outcomes and study lessons learned. That’s strange given the extent to which they evaluate and scrutinise foreign aid spending, defence acquisitions and intelligence-collection efforts. Because so much of …
Since late August, Chinese telecom firm Huawei, along with another Chinese telecom, ZTE, has been banned from providing 5G equipment to Australia. The Australian government didn’t directly name the companies, but said that ‘the involvement …
Scott Morrison took a step last week that will define him as prime minister, but it wasn’t about getting party room numbers. It was his announcement as acting minister for home affairs that effectively banned two big …
The Turnbull government’s latest announcement on how its new telecommunications sector security reforms will apply to 5G in Australia has effectively excluded Huawei (and ZTE, the other Chinese large telecoms provider) as vendors of 5G …
So, the Australian government has a big decision to make about whether it will allow Huawei to be a provider of Australia’s 5G communications network that will power the internet of things for us. The …
The UK government released the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre oversight board’s 2018 annual report on 19 July. HCSEC is a Huawei-owned facility that was created seven years ago to deal with the perceived risks …
The case against Huawei’s participation in bidding for the 5G network in Australia appears to be based on incomplete information, at least as far as the public record allows us to judge. For a full …
Q: How many of our politicians have you taken over [to Huawei’s Shenzhen headquarters]? Huawei Australia chairman John Lord: I personally have taken about a dozen over the last seven years. Q: And it’s all …
The Australian government will soon announce its decision on whether to allow Huawei to participate in Australia’s 5G network. It’s one of the most important policy decisions the prime minister will make this year. And it’s …
While Huawei itself, as well as its activities in Australia and worldwide, merit detailed scrutiny, the system and conditions within which it operates constitute a deeper source of concern. At present, the Chinese Communist …
Huawei has provoked recurrent concerns and generated nearly incessant controversy in recent news cycles. In the US, the potential for Huawei to dominate 5G network services was the implicit justification for the recent presidential order blocking …