U.S. State Department Undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment John Klatsch begins a trip to the European Union and eight European countries on Monday (September 21, 2020) to continue the global initiative to advance the “CleanNet” in Europe.
The eight countries include Germany, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, and Spain.
The U.S. earlier this year announced its Clean Internet Initiative, a comprehensive effort to remove “untrusted” Chinese equipment and technology products from five major areas: telecommunications carriers, mobile apps, app stores, web-based cloud services, and submarine cables, and called on all countries to follow suit.
To date, the U.S. initiative appears to have received a broad and positive response in Europe and around the world.
According to information released by the U.S. State Department, countries such as the United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, Estonia, Romania, Denmark, and Latvia have opted not to use products from “untrusted” vendors in their 5G networks, major carriers in France, India, Austria, South Korea, Japan, and the United Kingdom have all rejected the use of “tools under the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance system,” and the three major Canadian carriers have indicated that they will not use Huawei products in their 5G networks.
Klatsch has just completed a three-day visit to Taiwan. He was the most senior U.S. State Department official to visit Taiwan since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China. Beijing reacted strongly to the visit, including sending military aircraft frequently across the centerline of the Taiwan Strait and conducting combat military exercises nearby.
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