“”We want to build a network so the Chinese can’t listen to your calls,” the official told Reuters”
Good luck with that.
This is an old Military table-hitting thing. When they found out that all of this US tech is totally Chinese they got scared. And with good reason.
A mil report stated that the saturation of questionable and outright covert spy tech in our everyday electronics (In use by DoD) . It’s scary and a lot of people began to understand the next war, and how we were losing, or did lose.
When it comes to government abuses of the system, it’s already been proven that they abuse the private system anyway so no changes there.
The difference is that in a few years the government will have a tool so powerful that it will make our actual bullets obsolete. Everything will be tied into 5G. Everything.
5G will be the IOP (Internet of People).
The meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities should give anyone pause.
Have the Chinese added another deliberate vulnerability to chips they manufacture, that by COTS are ubiquitous in, say avionics?