If it succeeds, the threat to free and open countries is threefold: the CCP would capture vast amounts of data and weaponise it; the CCP would gain the capability to turn o systems, a potent form of economic warfare; and the CCP could p ressure foreign governments into changing policies under threat of interruption to the supply of CIMs. [...] The law w ill send a s trong and wider m essage on the security of using Chinese CIMs – but only if one of the first actions of the NSUP is to place Chinese CIM manufacturers on the debarment list and enforce a ban. [...] In August 2 023 the House Select Committee on t he Strategic Competition Between the US a nd the CCP wrote to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requesting to know what a ctions it m ight b e considering to d eal with the t hreat of Chinese CIMs. [...] 25 The F CC in turn wrote to eight government departments (State, Defence, Homeland Security, Justice, the Federal Acquisition Security Council, and the three intelligence agencies) welcoming ‘ the opportunity to collaborate with you in a ddressing this threat, including consideration of the inclusion of this equipment from Quectel a nd Fibocom o n the Covered List.’ 26 The conclusions and possibl. [...] Broaden understanding of the threat of CIMs to economic and national security, a s well as t o the values and data of free a nd o pen countries.
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