The American Federal Commission for Communications has spear What he describes as a "radical investigation" on Chinese companies already on its "Covered list." These companies include Huawei, Zte and China Telecom, which, according to the United States government, is aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. In 2022, the Biden administration prohibited the sale of communication equipment, video surveillance equipment and services of these companies in order to protect the country’s national security and to ensure that "Communication equipment unworthy of trust is not authorized for use in [US] Borders."
According to the President of the FCC, Brendan Carr, the agency has reason to believe that some of the entities on the covered list still operates in the United States because they do not think that the prohibition covers "types of particular operations or otherwise." These companies are "Trying to end these FCC prohibitions by continuing to do business in America on a private or “unregulated” basis," He said.
This survey is the first major initiative of the National Security Council that Carr recently created within the FCC. The main objectives of the new council are to reduce the sectors of American technology and telecommunications to foreign opponents, to mitigate the country’s vulnerability to cyber attacks and espionage, as well as to guarantee that the United States "wins strategic competition with China on critical technologies."
The FCC intends to gather a wide range of information on the entities of the covered list, including details on their current activities in the United States and the activities of companies that could help their operations. He said it would be "Close all the gaps that have enabled opponents of unreliable foreign adversary to skirt [its] rules."
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