Expelling China’s telecom companies from the USA
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https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59055360
US revokes licence of top Chinese telecoms company
Officials said the Chinese government's control of the company gave it the opportunity "to access, store, disrupt, and/or misroute US communications".
This in turn could allow it "to engage in espionage and other harmful activities against the US", they said.
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Related: Top News Organizations Run Huawei-Sponsored Puff Pieces
Some of the country's most prominent news organizations have partnership deals with telecom giant Huawei, which the U.S. government considers a national security risk because of links to the Chinese government.
The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Reuters, and Politico have all published news-style pieces commissioned by the Chinese telecom giant to advance its interests, according to a Washington Free Beacon review. Since July, Reuters has published two sponsored articles touting Huawei's investments in the United Kingdom. The Journal has published 14 sponsored articles since last year, while Wired has hosted virtual events sponsored by the tech giant. Politico ran pro-Huawei content last year. The articles disclose that Huawei sponsors the content, though the company's ties to the Chinese government may not be apparent to readers.
How does a company like Huawei "sponsor" an article in a newspaper?
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Related: Top News Organizations Run Huawei-Sponsored Puff Pieces
Some of the country's most prominent news organizations have partnership deals with telecom giant Huawei, which the U.S. government considers a national security risk because of links to the Chinese government.
The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Reuters, and Politico have all published news-style pieces commissioned by the Chinese telecom giant to advance its interests, according to a Washington Free Beacon review. Since July, Reuters has published two sponsored articles touting Huawei's investments in the United Kingdom. The Journal has published 14 sponsored articles since last year, while Wired has hosted virtual events sponsored by the tech giant. Politico ran pro-Huawei content last year. The articles disclose that Huawei sponsors the content, though the company's ties to the Chinese government may not be apparent to readers.
How does a company like Huawei "sponsor" an article in a newspaper?
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@george-k said in Expelling China’s telecom companies from the USA:
How does a company like Huawei "sponsor" an article in a newspaper?
By paying money to said newspaper, like buying an advertisement.
@axtremus said in Expelling China’s telecom companies from the USA:
By paying money to said newspaper, like buying an advertisement.
Yeah, I totally understand the idea of buying advertising.
But to pay the newspaper to run stories it considers favorable as though it were "news?" C'mon man.
That said, I doubt that China is the only player doing that.
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@axtremus said in Expelling China’s telecom companies from the USA:
By paying money to said newspaper, like buying an advertisement.
Yeah, I totally understand the idea of buying advertising.
But to pay the newspaper to run stories it considers favorable as though it were "news?" C'mon man.
That said, I doubt that China is the only player doing that.
@george-k said in Expelling China’s telecom companies from the USA:
But to pay the newspaper to run stories it considers favorable as though it were "news?" C'mon man.
The newspaper that allows this to happen risks its own reputation. "Paid speech" is also protected by the First Amendment. So not sure if there can be a public policy remedy for something like this without tweaking the First Amendment.
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@george-k said in Expelling China’s telecom companies from the USA:
That said, I doubt that China is the only player doing that.
This kind of "advertising" by countries was pretty common in the washington post. I remember that it might take the form of a "special section" or insert. I don't remember a specific case but I remember seeing them regularly. China would have certainly been a country that did this.
Like this: https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-china-propaganda-advertising-section
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Kind of related a bit
(https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/25/lorex-ezviz-pulled-from-shelves/)
