Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

We will end up like cavemen if we start to banish every new technology coming from China based on racism. China will not stop developing new technology just because the US doesn't like it.

I don’t think people dislike Chinese tech because it’s made by Chinese people, but rather because the Chinese government is assumed to have some hand in it. Best faith interpretation and all that, right?

Technology has no political badges or flags. First of all, scientists and engineers are not political actors. Moreover, I have all the right to use a technology if I want it, even if it was developed in a totalitarian regime. For the US to prevent me from using this technology is infringing on my freedoms.

What freedoms does banning Chinese products infringe? I'm pretty sure that the national government has the right to control international trade in the same way that the state governments have a right to control interstate trade.

Get of your high horse. Scientists and engineers in China, are political actors. Everything done in china is political. And your right is superseded by national security, and good luck trying to find infringment on it.

I for one am rooting to start boycotting the whole of China, until their communist regime which conducts genocide is forced to change and play humane and fair.

You do have a right to buy Huawei equipment but you do not have the right to force your city/government to buy their equipment.

People get too caught up in attaching technology to a given place or person. "Chinese technology" vs "US technology". And probably a related phenomenon, when the "lead engineer in charge of the original Pentium" goes to work for Samsung or something (hypothetically), people think that means that Samsung is going to start making x86 processors or something silly like that.

Technology is bigger than any one person or place. Samsung could make x86 chips just fine without hiring a single Intel engineer, if they put enough money behind the project. Likewise, China could out-innovate silicon valley if they poured trillions into it (and I'm sure they make that calculation yearly and decide not to). Likewise, the US could build fabs and get back up to speed with China when it comes to chip production, but they would have to pour trillions into it, and it would disrupt our image of green/clean technology.

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