Why Trump's anti-Huawei campaign is embarrassing

Editor's note: Ghanbar Naderi is an Iranian journalist, news commentator, documentary filmmaker and member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain. The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily that of the CGTN.

The Trump administration has conducted an unjustified campaign against Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

Isolationists claim that many Asian, African and European countries deploying their next generation wireless networks with the help of Huawei are actually offering Beijing a means of spying and even worse – which the company denies with force.

Fold back the bow of the moral universe back

There is more and more evidence showing that there is preparatory work to beat all the other works – a dirty trick attributed by President Donald Trump to the neo-conservative faction of his government.

In this feat, the isolationists desperately use all the tricks of the book, even throwing a sink, to put an end to the political and economic ascendancy of China as part of the vision of the president Xi Jinping of mutual trust and collective governance in the global cyberspace.

The Necon faction is terrified by the fact that President Xi's proposal to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace has greatly contributed to improving the global governance of cyberspace. To roll back this arc of the moral universe, they use the highest-paid news commentators and big-eyed conspiracy theorists to slander China.

In this paranoid season, the neo-neo-conservative spinner Sinophobia is deeper than that. Under this policy, Huawei can not operate in the United States, its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, can be arrested under an extradition warrant and its "normalized" business relationship with his US counterparts.

Interestingly, their own mainstream media have just painted a picture of the major spies in America. The list is dominated by Russia, its satellites and Israel. No Chinese, which is a good thing.

Anyway, Huawei can not be punished for being the world's largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment. The "outsider outsider" is far from the sneaky Fort Meade National Security Agency in Maryland. It operates the global spying network, but Huawei, which remains accessible to all, regardless of where they live, must be the usual suspect and can not allow real change in the world.

It's outrageous. This shows that there is a new trend in anti-Chinese sentiment in Washington, led by key decision makers in Trump. Their trade frictions between the United States and China are also fueling it. They see Huawei's global success as a "national threat." This irrational perception and anguish is not only detrimental to the United States, but it also makes it harder to end the trade war.

The path of defeat

Trump's anti-China policy will have serious global consequences. He chose to turn a blind eye to the great contributions of Chinese technology to Western prosperity. His neocon faction is using the Huawei lie to conceal the failure of the United States in its attempt to catch up with China in technology and commerce. They are desperately trying to hide their incompetence, and the sad thing is that some political and economic elites adhere to such absurd and outdated rhetoric.

The table is ready, but there is no real chance for the United States to win. This can not stop Huawei because US companies are not serious competitors in this market. Neo-conservatives exaggerate Huawei's threat because their record is inadequate – and falsified.

Regardless of their lies, Beijing does not need secret access to Huawei switches, routers and wireless base stations to infiltrate US networks, locate military bases, steal trade secrets, disrupt global markets and / or install software "equipment" that the Chinese intelligence services could have used to tap, spy on or interrupt Western data transmissions.

A lot of Western experts and cybersecurity companies say that it is unlikely to happen – "almost zero because it would be discovered." And they have not yet heard from the NSA "never having found Huawei backdoors created for Chinese intelligence".

The irony of the situation is that the United States has done what they accuse Huawei. That's why many countries, including Washington's European allies, are reluctant to enact a blanket ban on Huawei, even as Trump's officials continue to criticize the world's leading manufacturer of computer graphics. telecommunication equipment as "an unreliable substitute for intelligence services."

Despite the impressive power aura released by the neocon faction, Huawei will continue to make major global breakthroughs with its fifth generation wireless technology, or 5G,. Trump can ban Huawei in the United States and try not to present that as a failure. But the overall order will not blink.

These analogies are still imperfect, yet any telecommunication network has "gaps" and "insecurities" of medium or high priority. Huawei's engineering practices are no exception.

These problems and flaws are manageable and certainly never reflect Chinese hostility or intention. Anyone who doubts should ask the UK and German cyber risk agencies and officials who said they would "reject a general ban on Huawei 5G".

For those trying to keep up with global trends in telecom technology over the next two or three years, Trump's unjustified campaign against Huawei is not only embarrassing, it is also a disaster for US telecom companies.

More generally, one could say that its failure to end the trade war was not only amputating the future, but also the current opportunities of many Chinese and American companies working together in new world technologies.

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