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

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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

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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. 
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