U.S. failed to properly oversee Chinese telecom carriers - Senate panel


  • World
  • Tuesday, 09 Jun 2020

FILE PHOTO: The company logo of China Telecom is displayed at a news conference in Hong Kong, China August 20, 2018. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate report released Tuesday says the U.S. government failed to properly oversee Chinese-owned telecommunications companies for nearly two decades.

The report from the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations says the U.S. government "provided little-to-no oversight of Chinese state-owned telecommunications carriers operating in the United States for nearly twenty years."

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