The American government has unveiled a wide-ranging Initiative with the aim of Chinese computer technology at all levels to restrict, not only in the United States. It comes to popular Apps, Cloud services, telecommunications networks, undersea cables and Smartphones.
“The Clean-Network program is the comprehensive approach of the Trump Administration for the protection of the privacy of our citizens and the most sensitive information of our company prior to the aggressive interventions of malicious actors, such as the Communist party of China (CPC),” said the American Secretary of state Mike Pompeo said in a statement.
He made it clear that Washington intends to forge in the matter of an international Alliance against the second largest economy in the world. “The United States will call on our allies and partners in government and industry around the world, the growing flood of connect, in order to protect our data against the surveillance state, the CCP and other malicious entities,” said Pompeo. And he concluded: “The construction of a clean fortress to the data of our citizens is to ensure the safety and security of all our Nations.”
pressure on Huawei, Tiktok and Wechat
explicit name is mentioned in the on the website of the Ministry of foreign Affairs published notice of the Chinese network equipment and Smartphone maker Huawei. For months the government has in Washington, pressure on allied countries in Europe to dispense with the services of the group, the new mobile radio standard 5G build.
In Europe has, in the meantime, the British government to this request, the French tend to be also, in Germany, a final decision is still pending. Washington argued that Huawei’s technology offered the Chinese leadership a potential espionage or sabotage is a possibility. The company rejects all accusations.
In the featured “Clean-Network-program” is Huawei, however, especially as a cell phone manufacturer in the visor. In the section on “Clean Apps” it says: “Huawei, an Arm of the surveillance state, the people’s Republic of China, is with the innovation and reputation of leading American and foreign companies. This company should remove their Apps from the App Store of Huawei, in order to ensure that they work together with a human rights violator.“