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Huawei, ZTE a threat to India too, admits Indian Army
The Indian defense think tanks have shown great concern over the lack of indigenous manufacturing in India considering the inability and impossibility of decoding or tracking the chipsets manufactured by them unlike any other country.
"America assemble everything, they import it. But Chinese manufactured telecom equipment are suspicious as you cannot know what's inside. You cannot decode the units manufactured by them and thus pose higher risk and threat," insists Lt Gen SP Kochhar, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC, SO-in-C and senior col commandant.
This adds another blow to the Chinese telecom gear manufacturers which are currently undergoing recent thrashing from the US committee's recent report. The chairman and ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Mike Rogers (R-MI) and CA Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) released a report recommending the US companies considering doing business with Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE and to find another vendor.
The report recommends that the US government systems, particularly sensitive systems exclude Huawei or ZTE equipment or component parts.
'Any bug, beacon, or backdoor put into our critical systems could allow for a catastrophic and devastating domino effect of failures throughout our networks. As this report shows, we have serious concerns about Huawei and ZTE, and their connection to the communist Government of China. China is known to be the major perpetrator of cyber espionage, and Huawei and ZTE failed to alleviate serious concerns throughout this important investigation. American businesses should use other vendors," chairman Rogers said.
The report highlights the inter connectivity of the US critical infrastructure systems and warns of the heightened threat of cyber espionage and predatory disruption or destruction of the US networks if telecommunications networks are built by companies with known ties to the Chinese state, a country known to aggressively steal valuable trade secrets and other sensitive data from the US companies.
We warn the US government agencies and companies considering using Huawei and ZTE equipment in their networks to take into account the affect it could have on our national security," said ranking member Ruppersberger.
David Dai Shu, ZTE's director of global public affairs, in response to this report said, "It is noteworthy that after a year long investigation, the committee rests its conclusions on a finding that ZTE may not be of state influence. This finding would apply to any company operating in China. The committee has not challenged ZTE's fitness to serve the US market based on any pattern of unethical or illegal behavior."
Commenting on the committee report, Huawei said "The report conducted by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence which took 11 months to complete failed to provide clear evidence to substantiate the legitimacy of the committee's concerns. We have to suspect that the only purpose of such report is to impede competition and obstruct Chinese ICT companies from entering the US market."
The report, released in a Capitol Hill news conference, states that Huawei and ZTE provided incomplete, contradictory, and evasive responses to the committee's core concerns. The report comes after a year long investigation into the national security dangers posed by Huawei and ZTE, the 2 largest Chinese telecommunications companies doing business in the US.
- See more at: Huawei, ZTE a threat to India too, admits Indian Army - Voice&Data
The Indian defense think tanks have shown great concern over the lack of indigenous manufacturing in India considering the inability and impossibility of decoding or tracking the chipsets manufactured by them unlike any other country.
"America assemble everything, they import it. But Chinese manufactured telecom equipment are suspicious as you cannot know what's inside. You cannot decode the units manufactured by them and thus pose higher risk and threat," insists Lt Gen SP Kochhar, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC, SO-in-C and senior col commandant.
This adds another blow to the Chinese telecom gear manufacturers which are currently undergoing recent thrashing from the US committee's recent report. The chairman and ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Mike Rogers (R-MI) and CA Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) released a report recommending the US companies considering doing business with Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE and to find another vendor.
The report recommends that the US government systems, particularly sensitive systems exclude Huawei or ZTE equipment or component parts.
'Any bug, beacon, or backdoor put into our critical systems could allow for a catastrophic and devastating domino effect of failures throughout our networks. As this report shows, we have serious concerns about Huawei and ZTE, and their connection to the communist Government of China. China is known to be the major perpetrator of cyber espionage, and Huawei and ZTE failed to alleviate serious concerns throughout this important investigation. American businesses should use other vendors," chairman Rogers said.
The report highlights the inter connectivity of the US critical infrastructure systems and warns of the heightened threat of cyber espionage and predatory disruption or destruction of the US networks if telecommunications networks are built by companies with known ties to the Chinese state, a country known to aggressively steal valuable trade secrets and other sensitive data from the US companies.
We warn the US government agencies and companies considering using Huawei and ZTE equipment in their networks to take into account the affect it could have on our national security," said ranking member Ruppersberger.
David Dai Shu, ZTE's director of global public affairs, in response to this report said, "It is noteworthy that after a year long investigation, the committee rests its conclusions on a finding that ZTE may not be of state influence. This finding would apply to any company operating in China. The committee has not challenged ZTE's fitness to serve the US market based on any pattern of unethical or illegal behavior."
Commenting on the committee report, Huawei said "The report conducted by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence which took 11 months to complete failed to provide clear evidence to substantiate the legitimacy of the committee's concerns. We have to suspect that the only purpose of such report is to impede competition and obstruct Chinese ICT companies from entering the US market."
The report, released in a Capitol Hill news conference, states that Huawei and ZTE provided incomplete, contradictory, and evasive responses to the committee's core concerns. The report comes after a year long investigation into the national security dangers posed by Huawei and ZTE, the 2 largest Chinese telecommunications companies doing business in the US.
- See more at: Huawei, ZTE a threat to India too, admits Indian Army - Voice&Data