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Whether Huawei (or any Chinese firm) really is spying - or planning to - is almost irrelevant. There's always a #platformrisk argument for maintaining control of critical infrastructure - for a country or a company.

See: Surviving Platform Risk ideafaktory.com/platform-risk-…
Cost? Problem is cost to whom? ISP's get to decide our fate, based on their costs, not ours, as citizens or a nation. A realignment is in order.

PS- I don't feel bad dictating to govt-created monopolies what to do.

US is way too lax on foreign property ownership. Time to clamp down.

Farmland is strategic.

In Sydney & London, foreign oligarchs stash shady cash in real estate, inflate prices, turn neighborhoods into ghost towns. They're cracking down, as should NYC.
npr.org/2019/05/27/723…
Coincidentally... An episode of NPR's The Indicator podcast on weaponizing global interdependencies.
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This trade war & tech company tussle will have deep ripple effects on US-China relations long after this administration.

Addressing these issues was long overdue, but no doubt it could have been handled better.

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