Federal authorities said Charles Lieber, a prominent nanoscientist and a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, received hundreds of thousands of dollars from his Chinese connections. He shuffled into a Boston federal courtroom in shackles Tuesday to face charges that stunned the area’s scientific community.
"The Chinese government‘s goal … is to replace the United States as the world superpower and it’s breaking the law to get there,” Joseph R. Bonavolonta, the FBI special agent in charge of the bureau’s Boston office, said at a news conference. China “wants what we have so they can gain the upper hand,” he added.
BBC - 5G: EU issues guidance on 'high-risk' suppliers -
Huawei is not named in its guidelines, and the decision on which equipment to use is left to individual countries.
The non-binding EC recommendations call on member states to:
- strengthen security requirements
- assess the risk of suppliers
- restrict suppliers considered to be high-risk
- reveal exclusions for key assets considered as critical (such as the core network)
- set up a legal or regulatory framework to control the use of outsourced suppliers
- ensure governments get audit telecoms operators to provide detailed data on sourcing of 5G equipment
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