[SauronOfMordor]

My guess is that they consider 5G to be a vital part of their global intelligence infrastructure, and will do anything to ensure that Chinese equipment is installed worldwide.

That said, I’m less worried about Chinese intelligence, than I am about the abuses of our own Deep State.

[Zhang Fei]

[That said, I’m less worried about Chinese intelligence, than I am about the abuses of our own Deep State.]

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I worry about the effects of having Chinese gear in our communications backbone, because we will be fighting a war with them sooner rather than later. I’d hate to have us unable to respond to a Chinese nuclear first strike because our sensors can’t get through to the people manning our ABM systems or the nuclear triad. The Deep State can be taken down by legal and political means. In an age where China possesses MIRV’ed nuclear warheads and both ICBM’s and SLBM’s, having our communications cut off in wartime could mean our physical extinction.

[Zhang Fei]

Another way of putting this is Democrats have been screwing up this country for 100 years, but the GOP has been able to slow down the process by winning at the ballot box. It will be a lot harder to get over a Chinese nuclear first strike that leaves China untouched because our command and control capabilities have been fried due to Chinese hardware.