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All the US-China clashes over telecommunications

All the US-China clashes over telecommunications

The article by Giuseppe Gagliano

The war between the United States and China naturally also involves the legal rules governing telecommunications infrastructures.

The new Countering Untrusted Telecommunications Abroad Act (CUTAA) appears as the latest US-built weapon in the global battle for telecom regulatory leadership.

The law, passed by the House of Representatives on September 20, has attracted strong criticism from Beijing. This demonstrates the determination with which the United States is waging an all-out economic war with Beijing. In this regard, just think of the Securing Global Telecommunications Act, passed by the House of Representatives the day after the CUTAA .

The CUTAA, which was put in place by Democrat Susan Wild, not only wants to protect the US from Chinese technology but its implementation will involve the involvement of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). On the one hand, it imposes controls on the exposure of US embassies to the Chinese state security ministry, or Guoanbu, through the use of Chinese telecommunication equipment and parts. On the other hand, CUTAA will require U.S. publicly traded companies to declare to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) whether they use Chinese equipment, networks or services such as cloud computing and data storage.

But closed means another major success on September 29: they scored a key victory over Russia and China at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency that coordinates telecommunications operations and services around the world. , when its candidate Doreen Bogdan-Marin was voted as the new head of the organization.

In fact, the alternative candidate Rashid Ismailov was regarded by Washington as a threat. Let's not forget that he was a former communications minister in the Russian government and Huawei's vice president for Russia and Eastern Europe.

Speaking of China, we must not forget that thanks to the outgoing Chinese Secretary General Houlin Zhao, Beijing has tried to pressure the ITU to approve Huawei's "New IP" Internet Protocol, a measure that would allow governments to be able to deactivate access of an individual at any time. However, to be fair, we cannot say that the US has achieved a 360-degree victory: in fact on 8 September the Office of Industry and Security (BIS) was forced to loosen some sanctions against Huawei, authorizing the transfer of certain cryptographic technologies to Huawei provided that it is intended for the development of international telecommunications standards.


This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/stati-uniti-cina-regole-telecomunicazioni/ on Sun, 09 Oct 2022 06:00:20 +0000.