Has Trump accidentally proved that Huawei is not a huge security risk?

James Barisic
The Startup
Published in
4 min readJun 7, 2019

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The Trump trade war continues, along with his targeting of Huawei for undisclosed ‘security’ reasons. But by forcing Google to stop Huawei using Android and to use its own operating system instead, he has shown how little he understands tech or security — or trade?

You would not want to be Google’s spokesman having to deal with their recent forced decision and it is unsurprising that the best they could come up with was “We were only following orders”. Or more specifically, “We are complying with the order and

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James Barisic
The Startup

Entrepreneur. Lecturer in Digital Business at the Grenoble Ecole de Management. Digital. Political. European. Keeper of chickens & rabbits. Views my own.