Blaming China Is Handy When Trying To Keep Telco Infrastructure Away From Beijing
It’s probably best the deal fell through, but it now appears Australia also wants a crack at showing the world how to keep companies out of Chinese ownership. If we rewind to 2018, Australia used around AU$200 million of its foreign aid budget to lock Huawei out of building a subsea cable to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. Instead of Huawei, local telco Vocus eventually picked up a AU$137 million contract to build the cable....