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This is our promise to you. subscribe.epochtimes.com 212-239-2808 December 2018 3 WANG ZHAO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES GLOBAL DOMINANCE Huawei Is the Cornerstone of a CCP Initiative to Overtake the US JOSHUA PHILIPP he Chinese Communist Party crime, they can also be used to monitor ac- company, and three Taiwanese nationals— (CCP) is pushing a goal, under tivists and protests.” including Stephen Chen, a former president the banner of sovereignty, of Huawei plays In addition to Nairobi, the report stated, of Micron Memory Taiwan, a Micron sub- eliminating reliance on foreign “Huawei has deployed its systems across 100 sidiary in Taiwan, who went on to work at systems within China and then a key role in cities in approximately 30 countries world- the CCP’s United Microelectronics Corp. ensuring Chinese-made systems China’s goal wide. Exports of such technology are being Weeks later, in late November, CCP offi- dominate the global landscape. coupled with Chinese government-backed cials claimed they had found evidence that In the push to dominate this to surpass grants that create dependency of the im- Micron was price-fixing, along with Sam- domain, the CCP has identified porting country on Chinese-produced gear sung and Hynix, and—without providing core technologies, including satellite GPS, the United and incentivize further purchases of such public evidence—claimed the companies Tinternet infrastructure, and superconduc- equipment.” were involved in anti-competitive behavior. tors, with Huawei playing a key role in States as the A core aspect of this push is a new CCP-led Tat came on the heels of temporary U.S. this agenda. world leader internet framework that is separate from, sanctions that banned ZTE from the U.S. Te Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief yet interconnected with, the global inter- superconductor market, after ZTE was noted June 5 that Chinese leader Xi Jinping in technology, net. Included in this technology is the CCP’s found to have violated U.S. sanctions on recently has been promoting this concept massive systems for internet censorship and Iran. Tough the ban was quickly lifted, it as an approach to “technology, the internet, under its online monitoring—and again, coupled with acted as a warning shot about the effect that and governance, one that seeks to embed it is Huawei’s internet infrastructure and U.S. sanctions could have on the Chinese [China’s] concept of ‘cyber sovereignty’ ... Project 863 systems for totalitarian social control. tech industry. in the institutions of global internet gov- Huawei plays a major role in the CCP’s With Huawei now facing a similar fraud ernance.” and “Made in programs for human rights abuse and do- case related to Iran, the stakes have grown, In the past, the CCP’s concept of cy- China” 2025 mestic surveillance. A 172-page internal and the CCP’s programs to replace and sur- bersovereignty often referred to its push document from Huawei in 2015, which pass the United States as the global tech- to dominate the global internet space, programs. was leaked to the internet, was a training nology leader are front and center again, an effort dating to at least 2010, which manual for Chinese internet police to moni- with initiatives to compete in 5G internet included a play to gain control of the in- tor, analyze, and process video content. It technology, new energy, quantum comput- ternet globally through the United Na- also showed Huawei’s involvement with the ing, and others. tions in 2015. CCP’s Golden Shield Project for censorship In China, there’s a concept of “surpass- As the program has advanced, however, it and Skynet System for surveillance. ing you at the curve,” and that’s become a has broadened to include the foundational Te company’s technology is also part guiding concept for the CCP’s aim to over- technologies that make the internet and of the CCP’s Social Credit System, which take the United States as the world leader global technology systems work, while creates a database on each person, tracks in technology, under its Project 863 and maintaining the CCP’s spirit of social tyr- all available data about the individual, and China 2025 programs. Te idea is that it’s anny and global market domination. calculates a “citizen score” that determines very difficult to surpass someone already Trough the CCP’s “One Belt One Road” their level of freedom in society. ahead in a certain area, but when the whole initiative, it’s constructing core infrastruc- Te CCP is also making substantial ef- world is making a turn, that person can be ture that includes an export of the “China forts to replace the U.S.