Australian media reported today that if Australia accepts Huawei’s 5G equipment, it will be enough to completely disable Australia’s 5G network system at the command of the Chinese Communist government.
“The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age (Melbourne) both published today “The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne’s The Age both published reports today by Sydney Morning Herald reporter Peter Hartcher, which cited Hartcher’s recently released book “Red Zone: China’s Challenge and Australia’s Future”. Challenge and Australia’s Future.
The report reveals that the Australian federal government’s cybersecurity intelligence unit has concluded that if Huawei were to provide 5G equipment, the Australian government would have to implement 300 security measures; however, even if all of these measures were implemented, the Chinese government could still completely shut down Australia’s 5G network at any time if it gave the order.
In today’s report, Hartchel pointed out that the Australian Signals Directorate had been studying Huawei for more than eight months and trying to come up with an acceptable set of security measures; however, the Australian However, the “Australian Signals Directorate” finally advised the federal government that the introduction of Huawei 5G equipment was too risky and simply impossible to prevent.
The Australian federal government ordered a ban on Huawei 5G equipment in 2018; Australia was the first country in the world to do so. Subsequently, the Chinese Communist government has repeatedly asked Australia to revoke the ban.
“The Sydney Morning Herald and The Century reported on November 18, 2020, that an unnamed Chinese Communist Party official released a file from the Chinese Embassy in Australia containing 14 items on which Australia had offended the Chinese Communist Party, including Australia’s ban on Huawei’s ban on the supply of 5G equipment was the second item mentioned in the file.
In his report today, Hartchel cited a new book, “The Red Zone: The Chinese Communist Challenge and Australia’s Future,” in which an unnamed senior Australian intelligence official was mentioned. The intelligence officer said the biggest risk if Huawei 5G equipment is introduced is not that the Chinese Communist Party could use it to conduct espionage activities in Australia, but that the Chinese government could completely cripple Australia’s 5G network.
The intelligence officer cautioned that unlike 3G or 4G network security risks that only involve phone tapping and other issues; the risks of 5G networks will extend to the broader social and economic levels. He explained that if the 5G network system were to go down, it would affect “sewage plants that would stop, clean drinking water that would not be delivered to homes, public transportation networks that would stop, and electric vehicles that would stop their self-driving capabilities.”
Despite Huawei’s claims that it would not cooperate with the Chinese government if it gave orders that were contrary to Australia’s national interests, the intelligence officer believes that Huawei’s actions are not in line with the Chinese government. But the intelligence officer thinks Huawei’s claim is ludicrous; he said, “If the Chinese Communist Party asks Huawei to carry out tasks that are against Australia’s national interests, it is bound to do so.”
The report also mentioned that the Chinese Communist government passed a legal order in 2017 requiring all state-owned and private companies to cooperate in assisting the Communist government’s national security efforts.
According to information published on the website of the Ministry of National Defense, the “National Intelligence Law of the People’s Republic of China” was adopted at the 28th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People’s Congress on June 27, 2017, which explicitly states in “Article 7” that “Any organization and citizen shall support, assist and cooperate with the national intelligence work in accordance with the law.”
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