12
October 2023
Past Event
The Chinese Telecom Challenge

Event will also air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: mdewitt@hudson.org

The Chinese Telecom Challenge

Past Event
Online Only
October 12, 2023
A Huawei HoloSens software defined camera is on display during the third Digital China Summit and Exhibition on October 11, 2020, in Fuzhou, China. (Photo by Chen Xiaoke/VCG via Getty Images)
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A Huawei HoloSens software defined camera is on display during the third Digital China Summit and Exhibition on October 11, 2020, in Fuzhou, China. (Photo by Chen Xiaoke/VCG via Getty Images)
12
October 2023
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: mdewitt@hudson.org

Speakers:
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Nathan Simington

Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

Sohan Dasgupta
Sohan Dasgupta

Partner, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

Cofounder and CEO, Galvanick
Joshua Steinman

Cofounder and CEO, Galvanick

Moderator:
miles_yu
Miles Yu

Senior Fellow and Director, China Center

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The United States began working to prevent the Chinese Communist Party’s illicit surveillance of Americans through Chinese-made telecom equipment long before the infamous spy balloon traversed the continental US. Yet in the past two decades, thousands of state and local governments in the US have purchased potentially compromised devices. This threat extends beyond America’s borders as countries across the globe—including those that host US military bases—have turned to Chinese companies like Huawei for telecom equipment, services, and infrastructure.

Miles Yu, senior fellow and director of the China Center, will host Federal Communications Commissioner Nathan Simington and a panel of distinguished experts for a virtual discussion of how CCP-controlled telecommunications companies pose a uniquely pervasive threat to American national security.

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