The arrest of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver Airport on December 1, sent shock waves through the global high-tech community as well as in world capitals from Washington and Beijing to London and Berlin. Routers are the core hardware technology at the heart of the Internet; Huawei routers are widely used across China and Europe. The problem is, once Huawei’s dubious equipment gets installed with its Chinese-origin hardware, it’s not so easy getting out. A brand-new National Interest report entitled, “Huawei: A Trojan horse inside Taiwan?” notes that Huawei equipment was still being found in the island’s backbone telecom networks two years after Taiwan’s 2013 official ban on Huawei hardware took effect. So let the Meng arrest serve as a warning.

Source: Forbes December 10, 2018 20:03 UTC