Reuters reports the Biden administration is “investigating Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei over concerns U.S. cell towers fitted with its gear could capture sensitive information from military bases and missile silos that the company could then transmit to China.
Authorities are concerned Huawei could obtain sensitive data on military drills and the readiness status of bases and personnel via the equipment.” According to Reuters, “The previously unreported probe was opened by the Commerce Department shortly after Joe Biden took office early last year... following the implementation of rules to flesh out a May 2019 executive order that gave the agency the investigative authority.”
Meanwhile, a group of Republican senators wrote to the heads of the U.S. Treasury and Defense departments last week requesting they review a Chinese subsidiary’s purchase of farmland in North Dakota, which is approximately 12 miles from Grand Forks Air Force Base.
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