On Monday, the Australian media disclosed a letter written by China’s Huawei Corporation to the Australian government. The letter was signed by John Lode, Chairman of Huawei Australia, and the other three believed that Australia’s participation in Huawei’s 5G network construction in Australia. The statement that will damage Australian national security is 'inappropriate and not based on facts'.
Australia is preparing for the construction of 5G network. The media recently reported that the Australian security department stated that Huawei is 'controlled by the Chinese government' and requested that the company be excluded from the scope of the tender. Previous reports from the Australian media also stated that the Australian government also blocked Huawei. Participated in laying the submarine cable between Solomon Islands and Australia. Solomon Islands gave up its signed agreement with Huawei. It has signed a separate contract with the Australian government.
The Huawei Australia company letter stated that Huawei has operations in more than 170 countries in the world and has strictly complied with the laws and guidelines of each country. Huawei Australia also pointed out earlier this month that Huawei has so far met more than 55% of Australia. For 4G requirements, excluding Huawei from 5G will seriously affect Huawei's business in Australia. Obviously, rejecting Huawei will also greatly increase the cost of Australian telecom operators and allow consumers to bear higher 5G costs.
National security has become an excuse for abuse in international trade protectionism. The U.S. has used most of this flag, and Australia has followed the U.S. tightest in restricting Chinese investment. If Australia has completely excluded Huawei from building 5G networks in Australia. In addition, it has become the most prominent demonstration model for boycotting Chinese technology companies outside the United States in the Western world. This will be a declaration of action on China’s true attitude towards China.
Recently, Australian officials released some information to ease relations with China. However, in Solomon Islands, undersea submarine cables and Australian 5G tenders, what people see is still Australia’s defense against China’s average level higher than the Western level. Canberra still keeps The Chinese elements entered a separate volume. Huawei is a private company that emerged after China’s reform and opening up. The government did not participate in any shares in it. Its operations are not only highly independent, but also quite international, and a large number of commercial and scientific elites from all countries in the world participate in the company’s Development. Huawei and other large multinational companies have no difference between their asset attributes and operating culture.
Discrimination Huawei discriminates against China’s national operating system. It is politically and culturally openly distrusting China. It conducts special censorship on products from China and can exclude them with vague reasons. Australia seems to be actively Promote the establishment of this unreasonable mechanism.
China is Australia’s largest trading partner, but Australia has been seriously tangled up with the issue of relations with China. It seems that the close economic and human relations between the two countries have been regarded as a burden. Australia is more keen on mimicking the United States’ radical China policy than European countries. This is in contradiction with its closer economic cooperation with China than in European countries, leading to its constant swing.
In the case that Huawei is a major part of Australia’s 4G network technology, if Australia categorically rejects Huawei’s bid for Australia’s 5G network construction in the name of national security, it is tantamount to redefining the security relationship between China and Australia. This is not only the two countries’ The reduction of a transaction, but also of great symbolic significance, will seriously affect the mutual vision between the two countries.
Australia doubts that China has infiltrated it and interfered in its internal affairs. Perhaps these voices are part of the bubble caused by internal politics in Australia, but they all left a deep impression on the Chinese society. Together with the exclusion of Huawei, it will make Chinese society’s The impression is fixed.
This will certainly have a negative impact on the part of Australia that it wants to expand or maintain. It will shroud the Sino-Australian relations in a haze.
Maybe some Australians want their country to become a political enclave on the South Pacific in the United States, and they are willing to be a lever for rightist US policy towards China. But that will not only benefit but it will also mean a corresponding price.
In the end, Australia wants to balance its China policy with the ball at their own feet.