A group of nine Republican senators wrote a letter to Biden officials, raising security concerns about Chinese cloud firms like Huawei Cloud and Alibaba Cloud and asking for strict measures against them to protect U.S. interests and assets.
The April 25 letter (pdf), led by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), expressed “deep concern” about Chinese cloud computing companies.
“Open-source information shows that Huawei Cloud and PRC-based cloud computing services not only pose a threat to U.S. national security and economic security but also are increasingly engaging with foreign entities—in some cases sanctioned foreign entities—that are directly challenging the national security and economic security interests of the United States and our allies and partners,” the letter said, using the acronym for the People’s Republic of China….