Re:China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwi...
by abandonliberty on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @01:13AM
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what's blocking WeChat?
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Re:China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwi...
by dis-sys on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @01:54AM
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WeChat is not blocked, just like a long list of US internet services not blocked in China - Amazon, NH, booking.com, ebay, uber, airbnb, expedia and many more.
That being said, Huawei and Alipay's expansion into the US has been repeatedly blocked by the US federal government [1]. By citing the same national security concerns, using such logic, Cisco and Microsoft should have long been banned in China - but they are not, both are making good $ in China.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-moneygram-intl-m-a-ant-fi...
Re:China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwi...
by teknologist on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @02:23AM
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Those companies had to obtain ICP licenses and participate in forced partnerships and open up their servers to the government.
Your claim of fairness here is simply quite laughable
Re:China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwi...
by age_of_stone on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @05:01AM
(#18022863)
Huawei would like to participate in "forced" partnership and open their servers to the US government in exchange US market access. But still, it's banned by national security. laughable?
Re:China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwi...
by teknologist on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @07:49AM
(#18023483)
Well I guess they shouldn't have put a backdoor in their products then. You're conflating two unrelated things.
Re:China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwi...
by TACIXAT on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @12:41PM
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>Well I guess they shouldn't have put a backdoor in their products then.
Citation needed. I've yet to see any evidence against Huawei and ZTE. Just FUD from the USG.
Re:China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwi...
by chupasaurus on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @08:17AM
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Cisco is full of backdoors either.
Re:China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwi...
by abandonliberty on Saturday September 22, 2018 @09:15PM
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It seems like you undermined your own point here.