Huawei in India: The Chinese, finally, get their way
Deccan ChronicleThe Chinese seem to have finally succeeded in pushing Huawei through the Indian heartland to bid for the multi-billion-dollar hearing-device 5G telecommunications system? China has found the knob, and India’s establishment seems helpless in the face of a determined Chinese onslaught which deftly combines psy war with influencing a sizeable chunk of opinion makers. That, “at least 75 out of 176 nations surveyed globally are actively using AI tech for surveillance, and the leading vendors are Chinese firms, led by Huawei, which supplied tech to at least 50 countries”. Huawei’s entry will be projected as a “sign” of Indo-Chinese “convergence” for India’s modernisation. But why is India forgetting, despite it being pointed out, that China will never, ever, allow any foreigner, however friendly, to get anywhere near their “defence, electricity, oil, petrochemicals, telecommunications, coal, aviation, and shipping”, all of which are state-owned enterprises, equivalent to India’s public sector undertakings like ONGC, Bhel, BEL, Air India?