Ban Huawei to Escape China’s Digital Dictatorial Embrace

Huawei and ZTE communication networks in foreign countries also are deployed weapons that assist China’s foreign espionage, surveillance, and warfare objectives.

A screen shows visitors being filmed by AI security cameras with facial recognition technology at the 14th China International Exhibition on Public Safety and Security at the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing on Oct. 24, 2018. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images

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Free nations of the world have a choice: They can ban Chinese telecommunications giants such as Huawei and ZTE from building or dominating their next-generation “5G” digital communication networks, or they can let them in and watch their sovereignty and freedoms fade into the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) global digital dictatorship.