WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Thursday the United States and its allies should consider the highly unusual step of taking a “controlling stake” in Finland’s Nokia and Sweden’s Ericsson to counter China-based Huawei’s dominance in next-generation 5G wireless technology.
In a remarkable statement underscoring how far the United States may be willing to go to counter Huawei Technologies Co, Barr disclosed in a speech at a conference on Chinese economic espionage that there had been proposals to meet the concerns “by the United States aligning itself with Nokia and/or Ericsson.”
Barr said the alignment could take place “through American ownership of a controlling stake, either directly or through a consortium of private American and allied companies.”
“Putting our large market and financial muscle behind one or both of these firms would make it a far more formidable competitor and eliminate concerns over its staying power, or their staying power,” Barr said.
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As @EdwardGLuce knows, the sycophancy is a step on the road to authoritarianism: You want to be well treated by the people in power? You flatter them. Always of course present to some degree even in a healthy republic, but hyper-charged by Trumpist authoritarianism. https://t.co/ryQorzORdv
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 7, 2020
Socialism is when the state takes control of the means of production, including all industries and enterprises of any significant size or importance.
Sort of like Barr is arguing for doing right here. https://t.co/k2T2lYAGrp— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 8, 2020
Way. Someone help me out here. I was told we would never be a socialist country. What is it they call it when the state owns enterprises, again? https://t.co/U2OaGqwZRC
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 7, 2020
I would also like to point out at the same time the Trump administration is in a swivet about Huawei, they’re also making moves to eliminate end-to-end encryption and demand back doors into all of your communication services and devices.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 7, 2020
I don’t want Huawei (and thence the Chicom MSS) or Bill Barr in my private messages. If private citizens don’t have encryption, they don’t have freedom. Bottom line.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 7, 2020
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