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Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence (HPSCI), and the committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Dutch
Ruppersberger, announced on Thursday that their committee will look into the
potential for Chinese telecommunications equipment — like commercial
servers, routers and switches — to help China spy on the United States.
“The investigation is to determine the extent to which these companies
provide the Chinese government an opportunity for greater foreign espionage,
threaten our critical infrastructure, and further the opportunity for
Chinese economic espionage,” Rogers tells Danger Room. “Through this
investigation we will come to a better understanding of the threat so we are
better prepared to mitigate.”
The concern is that Chinese companies could tamper with equipment for use in
civilian communications infrastructure, allowing China to insert Trojan
horses that eavesdrop on targets in the United States. Chinese companies
already make a number of telecommunications products sold in the U.S., but
several have bowed out of deals to acquire large stakes in American telecom
companies after facing U.S. government pressure.
Rogers says the investigation is an outgrowth of a review he commissioned
shortly after becoming chairman of the committee in January.
“The findings in that preliminary review indicate that a full investigation
was warranted,” he explains. “I have serious national-security concerns
about Huawei, ZTE and other infrastructure companies, and will use all of
the committee’s resources to determine the extent of the threat and what
the government is doing about it.”
Both Huawei and ZTE have been involved in a bids to gain a great foothold in
the U.S. market — only to be turned down over espionage fears.
In the past few years, Huawei was rebuffed in its attempts to purchase
network infrastructure manufacturer 3Com and backed out of a deal for server
company 3Leaf, after Congress and the executive branch’s Committee on
Foreign Investment in the United States raised red flags. Pentagon officials
claim the company has close connections to China’s People’s Liberation
Army. And in November of last year, Sprint dropped ZTE from a major U.S.
telecommunications infrastructure contract, under pressure from the
administration and Congress.
In a joint statement released with Ruppersberger, Rogers says the
investigation won’t just focus on Chinese espionage capabilities, but also
on whether America’s own spooks can find and thwart any spy gear.
The House committee inquiry comes on the heels of a similar initiative from
the Obama administration, first reported by the Wall Street Journal’s
Siobhan Gorman, to examine the espionage risk of Chinese telecommunications
companies building American telcom infrasturcture. There, too, the
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