The so-called Clean Network programme originated as part of the White House campaign against telecoms equipment maker Huawei. Pompeo’s announcement on Wednesday vastly widens its scope. Service providers like China Mobile are to be denied access to American networks, which could prevent the carrier’s mainland customers from roaming in the United States. Suspicious Chinese apps are to be purged from Google Play and iTunes, nor can U.S.
American executives are also to stop storing sensitive data on cloud servers run by Chinese companies like Tencent or Alibaba. That’s going to be an expensive headache for U.S. firms operating in China. What’s more, the United States proposes to prevent Chinese intelligence agencies from “compromising” the undersea cables that connect data centres around the world.
This initiative does not propose to stop already installed Chinese apps like Tencent’s WeChat from working inside the country, as India has done. That might come via other channels, however. And it’s unclear how the new restrictions would be implemented technologically and enforced legally; the State Department doesn’t have the power to force Google to evict Chinese apps, for example.
What is certain is retaliation from Beijing. Visiting American executives could find their mobile SIM cards don’t roam in China. And barriers to data sharing will make it harder for companies to integrate local and foreign operations. That puts cumulative bilateral direct investments the Rhodium Group estimates at over $400 billion at risk. And the world’s most unstable commercial relationship will have taken another giant step backward.
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon Americans have a fetish with walls and propaganda....
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon This feels wrong. Technology & communication are forging ahead - going global. Why, as a nation, would you not want to embrace that? What do you gain by not joining the club? By getting left behind? It feels like the old-fella who is instinctively afraid of technology & change.
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon It looks like a joke. Anybody remembers the beautiful 'PRISM' plan? Clean network sounds like PRISM+.
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon China has managed to insert itself into numerous western systems in a long term strategy for control. Thank goodness people have awakened to their insidious practices. Everything in China is ultimately under the control of the CCP, so free nations need to be very careful.
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon White ppl backed by their media have managed to turn COVID-19 to be a virus for black ppl in other to justify Segregation and Racism.
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon China China China！Pomopeo should be US‘s Chief China officer🤣
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon The United States has the dirtiest networks and websites in the world. He's still talking about clean network?
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon Clean network proposed by U.S government....😂😂😂
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon I support Pompeo in this! He is really protecting usa from Chinese tech stealings! More power to you !!!
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Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon Late for about 10 years.
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon Excluding one billion souls from Lord's Table? Pompeo's game plan for Lord's Table. In my Methodist Church our minister opens the Communion Table for everyone incl Communists, prostitutes, terrorists, non-believers every one!
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon Pompeo is a liar who is destroying the us
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon Mikey Mikey Mikey... Tall rhymes with wall. I see what you did there!😂
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon On board, Secretary.
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon This may have been to much glossed over and too soon, like a knee-jerk reaction. I am not sure what to make of it either.
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon Pompeo's approach is at best poorly thought out.
Breakingviews petesweeneypro GinaChon If Pompeo wants 'clean' networks, then he should start by purging the NSA's Prism surveillance program.
Americans literally bomb half the planet and used propaganda and lies to push for wars and regime changes... And the media still pretends that what this radical and warmongering country says is real.... Unbelievable..
emm, America finally became what it hated before
The people in China can't even get out of their own web. The only people you ever see on social media from China are government propaganda bots. Nobody needs to hear from them. You are fake news.
Should have done it a long time ago.
Finally a cohesive strategy from realDonaldTrump Adminstration to decouple from China. Thank you SecPompeo and the team. Every time there is a discussion of NationalSecurity, Media's first comment is - it is 'expensive', as if they are the cost accounting geniuses!
Liar king.
A wall surrounding the wall...
The US government is a robber. How shameless it is to rob the scientific and technological achievements and assets of Chinese private enterprises to help American enterprises compete.
Es kann sein, das er Recht hat. Der Diebstahl geistigen Eigentums ist m.E. eine Art chinesischer Leistungssport.
Too little, too late maybe? Applaud the intent but is it not unrealistic?
Now, the speaking is matching action. Operation clean up.