The US "Clean Network" plan is worrying
Foreign media: undermining the globalization of the Internet hurts others and harms oneself
After naming seven Chinese technology companies including Huawei, claiming that they are stepping up the removal of "untrusted" Chinese apps from the US digital network, and listing TikTok and WeChat overseas as a major threat to the United States, Secretary of State Pompeo Recently, I took the opportunity of visiting Europe to promote its "clean network" plan and try to establish a "clean country alliance."
At the beginning of this month, the U.S. State Department announced a supplementary order issued by Pompeo to the "21st Century Version Closed to the United States"-"Clean Network" order. Its goal is to establish an environment in the United States that excludes Chinese companies and find ways to operate from telecommunications. The five aspects of business, mobile application stores, mobile apps, cloud services, and submarine optical cables have completely eliminated Chinese companies, thereby protecting the US telecom operating network and infrastructure.
This plan uses the name of "cleaning" to implement "cleaning", mainly including: cleaning operators, Chinese telecommunications companies that are not trusted by the United States cannot provide international telecommunications services to the United States; cleaning stores, downloading from the US application store Untrusted Chinese apps; Clean apps to prevent Huawei and other untrusted Chinese mobile phone manufacturers from pre-installing or downloading US mobile apps; Clean Cloud to restrict Chinese cloud service providers from collecting, storing, and processing US data and information Capabilities, including companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, China Mobile, Tencent, etc.; clean fiber optic cables, and prevent Chinese companies such as Huawei from bidding for submarine fiber optic cable projects connecting the United States and other countries.
The BBC published an article claiming that the signal from the so-called "clean network" plan is worrying and has contributed to the breakdown of Internet globalization.
The article quoted Alan Woodward, a computer security expert at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom, as saying, "The US government has long criticized other countries for controlling Internet access... Now we see Americans doing the same thing." As "Is the United States About to Split the Internet? "The article said: "It's hard not to look at this from the perspective of the November U.S. election."
The Verge article, a well-known American technology media, stated that the plan is “vague and aggressive,” and it looks grand, but it doesn’t know how to implement it, especially since the current government’s top priority is the election in a few months. Therefore, the White House plans to launch a "purge" against Chinese technology companies on the Internet, and it seems that it is just frightening people.
Another well-known American technology media Business Insider said that the White House released a "wild plan."
The tech spot article on the US computer technology information publishing website believes that there are reasons to believe that the Trump administration’s proposal is unlikely to become a reality, especially because it ignores the way the Internet works at the technical level.
The article also stated that if the "Clean Network" program had a chance to achieve its goals, it might lead to the gradual breakdown of the free Internet, which should have transcended national boundaries. And such politically motivated actions are likely to be counterproductive, hitting American companies and American consumers.
Our reporter Zhang Mengran