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The Chinese Communist Party is seeking leverage over individual
Americans as well. The Party is collecting your most intimate data—
your words, your actions, your purchases, your whereabouts, your
health records, your social media posts, your texts, and mapping your
network of friends, family, and acquaintances.
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The Chinese Communist Party accomplishes this goal, in part, by sub-
sidizing hardware, soware, telecommunications, and even genetics
companies.
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As a result, corporations such as Huawei and ZTE undercut
competitors on price and install their equipment around the globe at a
loss.
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This has the side eect of putting out of business American man-
ufacturers of telecom hardware and has made it very diicult for Nokia
and Ericsson.
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Why do they do it? Because it is not telecom hardware or
soware prots the Chinese Communist Party are aer, it is your data.
They use “backdoors” built into the products to obtain that data.
When the Chinese Communist Party cannot buy your data, it steals
it. In 2014, the Chinese hacked Anthem insurance, collecting sensi-
Angeles Times, March 16, 2011,
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-china-red-dawn-20110316-story.html
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Samantha Homan, “Why You Should Worry if You Have a Chinese Smartphone,” October
26, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/26/china-technology-
social-management-internet-social-credit-system. Also see Emile Dirks and James Leibold,
“Genomic surveillance,” June 17, 2020, https://www.aspi.org.au/report/
genomic-surveillance. Also see Danielle Cave, Samantha Homan, Alex Joske, Fergus Ryan
and Elise Thomas, “Mapping China’s Tech Giants, April 18, 2019,
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/mapping-chinas-tech-giants
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On Chinese tech rms’ links to the Chinese Communist Party and government, see, for
example, Dr. Christopher Ashley Ford, September 11, 2019, “Huawei and Its Siblings, the
Chinese Tech Giants: National Security and Foreign Policy Implications,”
https://www.state.gov/huawei-and-its-siblings-the-chinese-tech-giants-national-
security-and-foreign-policy-implications/. Also see Chuin-Wei Yap, “State Support Helped
Fuel Huawei’s Global Rise,” December 25, 2019,
https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-support-helped-fuel-huaweis-global-rise-11577280736.
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Brian Fung, “How China’s Huawei Took the Lead Over U.S. Companies in 5G Technology,”
The Washington Post, April 10, 2019,
https://search.proquest.com/docview/2206871501/citation/2D74B574CE9949D0PQ/
1?accountid=45205
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Tarmo Virki, Angela Moon, “In Push to Replace Huawei, Rural U.S. Carriers Are Talking
with Nokia and Ericsson,” Reuters, June 25, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/
us-huawei-tech-usa-nokia-ericsson-exclus/exclusive-in-push-to-replace-huawei-rural-
us-carriers-are-talking-with-nokia-and-ericsson-idUSKCN1TQ1VV