As China's Big Tech Hits America, Biden Signals Surrender
by Gordon G. Chang • February 17, 2021 at 5:00 am
There is no greater danger than that posed by Huawei Technologies, the world's largest manufacturer of communications networking gear.... Huawei poses a mortal threat to the U.S. economy. Beijing has been using the company to steal data.
Huawei is Beijing's "mechanism for spying, " as Senator Marsha Blackburn told Fox News in July 2019.
America should be putting Huawei out of business, not supporting its efforts to injure U.S. allies, partners, and friends, not to mention America itself.
The problem with the Biden approach is that there is not a moment to lose. "Sadly, I fear that by the time the Biden team comes around to the fact that Trump was right about China, the United States will have given up its leverage and China will have moved far beyond the point in which American sanctions can reliably work. At that point, Chinese tech firms will have been so enmeshed in the world system, propagating new technology and products, that it will be nearly impossible to decouple, the ultimate objective of Trump-era sanctions against China." — Brandon J. Weichert, tech analyst and author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, to Gatestone, February 2021.
On February 11, the Justice Department asked the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to put on hold its review of the Trump-era ban on WeChat, the popular Chinese messaging app.
This request came a day after the administration asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for a similar hold on the case considering the Trump ban on the Chinese mobile video-sharing platform TikTok.
Lower U.S. courts had previously enjoined the enforcement of the Trump bans. WeChat users and TikTok had sued to block enforcement. Trump banned the apps because they were, he correctly contended, collecting "vast swaths" of data and censoring Americans.
