The case against Huawei’s participation in bidding for the 5G network in Australia appears to be based on incomplete information, at least as far as the public record allows us to judge.

For a full picture, there are several fields of knowledge we need to understand and reconcile: espionage, computer science, information and communications technology, cyber security, business studies, foreign policy, China studies, political science, international political economy, and globalisation. But there are also political perspectives and biases. The latter issue was rather brilliantly captured in a recent Norwegian study.

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