China’s Great Firewall, erected over the past 15 years to restrict domestic access to the Internet, may be a bigger problem than concerns over the spread of China’s 5G technology, according to a US venture capital investor.
Fears that networking equipment manufactured by China’s national champion Huawei Technologies could offer Beijing a back door to spy on computer networks may not be as big a deal as China’s Great Firewall effectively dictating how devices connected via this new technology will be manufactured, said the investor.