Not security concerns, but worries about China's rise trigger US angst

Security concerns are nothing other than a subterfuge some Western politicians use to demonize Chinese companies in a bid to realize their goal of containing China's development.

The US administration, which has been the ringleader behind this witch hunt, is willing to go to extreme lengths in this endeavor, with its senior officials even pleading with the US' European allies not to buy communications equipment from Huawei and not to cooperate with the Chinese company when building their new 5G networks. Since those pleas have fallen on deaf ears, they have even sought to coerce them with threats.

In the latest move, the Federal Communications Commission will vote in November on whether to bar cellular providers from using government subsidies to buy equipment from Huawei and ZTE because of security concerns.