My Take | US’ China bashing is borderline racist
- With the CIA claiming that Huawei has received funding from Chinese intelligence agencies, shouldn’t Beijing be just as concerned about some of America’s biggest tech firms fighting over a US$10 billion Pentagon project
Washington has taken China-bashing to a surreal level. Borderline racist, it is now mostly fact-free. Allegations are made with no or the flimsiest evidence. When proof is requested, it makes threats to allies and rivals alike to accept them at face value, or else! A complacent mainstream American media can always be relied on to spread the propaganda by reporting out of context and focusing only on the most negative.
Perhaps the CIA can tell people what kind of funding projects are involved, no? The agency’s more hi-tech sister organisation, the National Security Agency, has already – illegally – hacked into the Shenzhen-based firm’s mainframe networks and found nothing.
Of course, it all depends on what kind of funding we are talking about; intelligence agencies are by definition in the disinformation business.
The Pentagon has a US$10 billion cloud-computing project to upgrade its information technology systems, a mouth-watering contract that has some of America’s biggest tech firms fighting over it. Is it that kind of funding with Huawei in China?
Google was the front runner but dropped out after widespread opposition from its employees. According to Bloomberg, either Amazon or Microsoft is expected to be chosen later this summer.