Our 'Five Eyes' intelligence partners from the US, Britain, Canada and
New Zealand have all failed to produce anything.
Nothing! In fact, of all associated parties, Huawei has been the most
transparent and has even offered to set up security research centers in
countries where their products can be assessed for the alleged security
threats.
The 'Five Eyes' has consistently denied such proposals as any kind of
viable solution to their security concerns.
As an added note, the US networking giant of Cisco and its competitors
have negative track records of security breaches and vulnerabilities,
which has at times exposed the data of millions of American and
international internet users.
On many occasions, US intelligence and law enforcement authorities have
deliberately exploited known vulnerabilities to complement their own
domestic and global spying operations.
"Huawei is bad" has been pure political propaganda from the US, fobbed
off to Australia and other allies.
While Britain, Canada and New Zealand had varying domestic decision
making processes that were carried out to reach a conclusion on Huawei,
there was an eventual line of unity drawn for the 'Five Eyes' nations - a
unity which has resulted in any member nation even considering catering
for Huawei in their core 5G networks placing themselves at risk of being
frowned upon by the US.
In a world full of international geopolitical tension, it is often just
accepted that democracy loving countries need to stand together whether
they agree with the path the US paves or not.
Let's face it, Australia needs the US.
That shouldn't put any spotlight of unimportance on Australia though, as
the US needs Australia too as we play a crucial role in maintaining peace
in the Asia/Pacific region.
Despite Australia's attempts to publicly paint a portrait that Australia
makes key security decisions with our own sovereign interests at the core
of the decision making, there is little doubt that pleasing US interests
probably have more of an influence.
I'm starting to see similarities between Huawei and TikTok, with the
increase in hostilities towards Chinese owned social media platform,
TikTok.
The politics of TikTok are complicated, as are the politics of Huawei.
Huawei was part of the secret US trade policies to keep its allies
aligned with American hegemony, not necessarily their sovereign
interests.