Huawei Technologies

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In 2021, Chinese telecom giant Huawei formally handed over the Konza-Ubonifu data center to the Kenyan government.

The data center is the infrastructure core of the city brain for Kenya's first smart city, the Konza Technopolis, a new town built from scratch on the outskirts of Nairobi.

After nearly two decades of making and remaking, and as a flagship project of Kenyan Vision 2030, Kongza has yet to deliver on its promises.

I think part of the problem, too, is, you know, and we've mostly talked about stuff inside of our lifelines, kind of circle back to, we touched on a little bit earlier on, we've got to get a higher degree of seriousness both inside the U.S., but a greater challenge is going to be with our allies, whether it's, you know, Canada flirting with Chinese or, you know, we always, everybody knows the the Europeans' love of cheap Russian gas, even while the war has been going on for years.

But I also remember the great battles, and I think it's still going on in a few countries that are allies, about Huawei and the Chinese penetration of communications.

And I think one of the classic examples where you're looking for the seriousness, and some people may be familiar with this, but Norway's public transportation operator, again, getting a cheap green electric bus.

Where are you going to go for cheap and green and electric? You're going to go to China, of course.

So that's, you know, or Volvo, you know, is another case in point.

You know, they were taken over.

So who knows? But let me just talk about Huawei for a second because there's a good success story there.

And that was with the 4G network in Europe that Huawei was intending to deploy and that the Europeans were going to buy.

That claim has been proven to be false by industry researchers.

tp-link has offered to manufacture their routers within the united states but in actuality all the components would still be manufactured in china with the routers just being assembled here as a result of this tp-link is now off my list this is like huawei part two exactly unless amazon has a big sale on their ero routers i'll most likely be getting the netgear orbi mesh system

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There's like a small ridge that you feel and it feels unnatural, like it's not entirely perfectly flat.

So rewarding the people who spend time actually looking at us apparently, right? This is the Oppo Fold N5, which was the hinge phone that Huawei was pushing, right? You see that? yeah monstrosity in the middle right this was from two years ago then this is the oppo fold n6 which is this year's version right okay you still see you know lovely lovely it's not as much not too much hinge but yeah it's almost

flat it's almost flat

And then you have the iPhone Duo, right, with much lovelier graphics.

In March this year, more than a quarter of all the cargo unloaded in Sydney came off Costco ships.

So I'm looking at that and I'm thinking, is that going to turn out to be the next Huawei, which was a source of tension between Australia and China? I think let's wait and see on that one.

It's an ongoing source of tension between many parts of the world and China.

Yeah, and I think Costco might be a flashpoint in the future.

Anyone, you know, the, the, everything, all access is controlled from both sides, but there's that compute in the, in the middle of desert, um, we can treat as neutral for this process.

You take the cryptographic commitments there, those fingerprints, and again, a secure process of some kind, imagine for dramatic purposes, an anthropic or Huawei executive, maybe both, with a briefcase handcuffed to their wrist, carrying data to this location.

It gets plugged in and a variety of computational checks can be run against the data.

You can prove that it's the real data because you have the fingerprint and Once you've proved that it's real data, you can run any test you want because this is a secure facility.

It started with Nokia, with Zeiss back in the aughts.

And then we got Leica partnering with Huawei for a while.

And that was brilliant.

And it wasn't just...

A lot of it is like color science.

They worked on the software.

In the days of Huawei and Leica, I was covering that stuff and talking to their engineers.

Leica specified to Huawei how to manufacture the lenses.

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Yeah, and I think honestly the thing that really hurt the chance of having alternate carriers in the U.S. was the entity list of Huawei.

Because remember, Huawei was going to be available in AT&T stores until the U.S. government put them on the entity list.

And I think...

Politically, however you feel about that, about like obviously a national security concern, I understand that.

I'm not trying to mitigate that in any way.

But I think that move right there really kind of set the deal because then they thought, well, we'll go and just kick Huawei out and then Huawei will go away and just disappear.

And Huawei came back and fucking came out swinging.