Chinese surveillance giants blacklisted by Trump’s administration are set to appear at a major US security trade show [ARTICLE]

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The number of Chinese companies exhibiting would have been much higher had it not been for the novel coronavirus outbreak, which forced numerous planned exhibitors to pull out of the conference. Researcher Sam Woodhams says the companies' presence at the trade fair suggests recent US efforts to sanction Chinese tech firms have fallen short. Chinese surveillance companies blacklisted by the US are openly touting their technologies to the American and international market, despite criticism for human rights abuses and alleged snooping. A new report from security researcher Samuel Woodhams at Top10VPN reveals that several Chinese companies, including two currently on the US Department of Commerce's official trade blacklist and two more with close links to Huawei, are due to exhibit at a major US trade show later in March. American companies are forbidden from doing business with blacklisted companies unless they have a special license from the government. The companies' presence at ISC raises questions about how effective the US ban really is, and how it applies to US subsidiaries of Chinese companies. Woodhams told Business Insider: "That several companies with problematic human rights records will be free to promote their invasive technologies to US security professionals raises significant concerns about creeping surveillance across the US and attests to the lack of human rights safeguards in the security industry more broadly."Further, the number of Chinese companies and their American subsidiaries that continue to feature in US security trade fairs suggests that recent efforts to decouple the American and Chinese technology sectors have had limited success. In the case of Dahua, the company seemed to revel in the Commerce Department's sanction. A spokesman for the Bureau of Industry and Security told Business Insider that participants at a trade conference would have to comply with the export restrictions imposed on companies on the list. The spokesman didn't give further clarification, but this suggests blacklisted companies are free to advertise their wares in the US as long as they don't strike deals with American businesses without the proper approvals. Two firms with close connections to Huawei are exhibiting Also present at the event will be two companies with close ties to phone and equipment maker Huawei, the most high-profile Chinese company to be placed on the entity list by the Trump administration. The US and Huawei have been engaged in a fierce political dogfight for more than a year, and the Trump administration has been heavily lobbying allies to freeze out Huawei's 5G equipment from national networks on the grounds the company spies for the Chinese government. The first of the Huawei-linked companies is wireless tech company Quectel. Quectel has been an official partner of Huawei's since at least 2017 , but more recently in February 2020 the two companies announced a partnership along with several other companies to "launch 5G industrial modules. The list of Huawei-linked companies would have been higher, Woodhams reports, but the majority of Chinese companies originally slated to appear at ISC pulled out due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Source | Create Website | Criar site | Crear sitio web | Créer un site Web