{"id":32371,"date":"2020-02-28T18:19:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2020\/02\/28\/huaweis-a-national-security-issue-or-is-it-a-trade-issue\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:33:12","slug":"huaweis-a-national-security-issue-or-is-it-a-trade-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/newsletters\/daily-brief\/2020\/02\/28\/huaweis-a-national-security-issue-or-is-it-a-trade-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s 5G tech is a national security issue &#8230; or is it a trade one?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 How the Trump administration has approached banning Huawei\u2019s technology for 5G networks has raised a question at the annual RSA Conference: Is the decision rooted in national security issues or trade issues?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe unfortunate answer is, it\u2019s both,\u201d said Kathryn Waldron, a fellow at the public policy research organization R Street Institute. \u201cAnd it depends on who you\u2019re talking to as to which one they\u2019re going to prioritize.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/industry\/2020\/02\/28\/the-future-of-defense-contractor-cybersecurity-standards\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/supply-chain.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">The future of defense contractor cybersecurity standards<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Katie Arrington, CISO for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and czar for the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, told Fifth Domain her thoughts on CMMC&#039;s \u201cconstant state of evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and lecturer at Harvard, said that while Huawei is a national security issue, the Trump administration has approached it as a trade issue. Throughout many of the last few years, Huawei has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/09\/us\/politics\/trump-huawei-trade.html\" target=\"_blank\">a bargaining chip<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/08\/09\/trump-says-us-is-not-going-to-do-business-with-huawei-not-ready-to-make-a-trade-deal-with-china.html\" target=\"_blank\">trade negotiations<\/a> between the United States and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEither this is a national security issue, in which case, there are things we do and we don\u2019t do, or this is a trade issue, in which case we negotiate on a variety of things,&#8221; Schneier said. &#8220;It cannot be both; it just doesn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He later added, \u201cwe really hurt ourselves with our allies when we try to play both ends of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the Trump administration has struggled to convince allies to not use Huawei hardware when building out their 5G networks. 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Germany is also considering Huawei\u2019s role in its 5G network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for Katie Arrington \u2014 the chief information security officer at the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, who is leading an effort to bolster cybersecurity requirements for the defense industrial base \u2014 Huawei was both a trade and national security risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChina has been blatantly ignoring IP law; they have lately been taking whatever they want &#8230; you can\u2019t have your IP, your data rights be yours and then give it to a country who takes it, mimics, copies, undersells, under bids you continually,\u201d Arrington said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arrington is heading work on the DoD\u2019s new cybersecurity requirements for contractors, an effort started in part due to IP theft from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPart of the reason that we are in 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