[GOPJ]

Much as I fear abuse of power by U.S. intelligence, and suspect "deep state" participation in an attempted coup against President Trump, I want the United States to maintain its advantage in electronic eavesdropping. The problem is that we don't produce any telecom hardware. Zilch. We used to. Cisco was the market leader, but has pretty much abandoned the hardware business (it makes more money in software). The U.S. economic expansion is at risk. In April the purchasing managers' surveys produced by the research organization Markit fell off a cliff. At barely above the 50 mark, they show that almost as many businesses were contracting as were growing. The trade war is partly to blame...

Huawei already produces its own high-end chips for smartphones and data processing, and has been preparing for the worst for a long time.

It's time for us to 'prepare for the worst'...

[Vermont Lt]

It’s past time to start preparing. That is the problem with America.

[arthurus]

Relying on Chinese hardware is giving the Chines a broad avenue to all information that their hardware touches. Their back doors in every device is why the military and the airlines and some industries have been ripping out and replacing all the Chinese components they have put into their systems over the last decade. Chinese components are cheap to purchase but extremely expensive to use. A Chinese chip on your/my motherboard is likely sending every bit of data on the computer back to the Middle Kingdom.