Chris Uhlmann & Angus Grigg — How the 'Five Eyes' cooked up the campaign to kill Huawei

All the evidence before the spy bosses at the dinner in Canada pointed to a rising superpower mounting the most comprehensive campaign of espionage and foreign interference that any had witnessed.

The Party was aggressively exporting a worldview that was hostile to democracy and actively sought to undermine it.

A new Great Game was afoot and the West had been slow to act. But it is acting now.Operation hang up on Huawei: how it happened:

• February 24 - Malcolm Turnbull lobbied US spy agencies to ban Huawei and ZTE from Australian 5G network
• August 19 - Turnbull rings US President Donald Trump and tells him of the Huawei, ZTE ban
• August 23 - Australia announces Huawei, ZTE ban
• August 24 - Turnbull dumped as Prime Minister
• October 29 - Mike Burgess explains decision to ban “high risk vendors” from 5G, cites risks to critical infrastructure
• November 21 - White House slams China for increasingly frequent cyber attacks
• November 27 - New Zealand bans Huawei citing “significant network security risk”
• December 1 - Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou arrested in Vancouver
• December 7 - British Telecom says it will strip Huawei equipment out of its 3G and 4G networks and will not use in 5G

Chimerica is over.* The new policy is contain and isolate.

Sydney Morning Telegraph
How the 'Five Eyes' cooked up the campaign to kill Huawei
Chris Uhlmann & Angus Grigg

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*Oh, wait. 

The problem with the claim that Xi has been "forced" is that China's trade surplus with the United States is actually considerably larger in 2018 than it was in 2017. For the first ten months of this year its surplus in goods has been $344.5 billion.

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