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ieee should transfer its registration to Switzerland.
history will remember this day
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This is just ridiculous. This goes way beyond what they originally intended with stopping suspected IP Theft or backdoors by Huawei. This is a black day for academic progress and research in general.
Google Scholar or Wikipedia websites has been banned in China for a decade, Do you think this is ridiculous?
Why is that a reason to ban academics?
These Chinese gov did't intend to ban academics, but political materials. But since they value their own benefits much higher than the benefits of academics to the Chinese people, they ban all the things, maybe because it's not technically easy to just ban individual pages given the huge amount of the materials. That's a very bad thing to ban the free Internet access.
Hi all, For those who are not familiar. Google is indeed banned because the CHN gov does not want us to see political adversary contents. However, google is available in the University I am working at for accessing research materials, especially scholars.google.com. I guess you were right, politics are banned, but academics aren't
No, that's not great either. That's the Chinese gov wanting to block knowledge from outside about political events, probably. This is something worse though in my opinion, since it actively halts innovation standardization which shouldn't have anything to do with politics.
With all due respect to academics, banning political opposition is far worse. Freedom is more important than new IEEE standards.
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One is caused by an authoritarian government, the other one is applied to individual researchers and academic freedom as whole.
That so called "authoritarian" government is more honest than your adopted "free world" government. Therefore, if you can turn a blind eye to the "free world", then please use those unseeing eyes of yours more frequently. Yes, two can speak your second language, you spineless "dissident".
yes, it is. and it's perfectly reasonable for US gov to be stupid since Chinese had been :D
Actually, Chinese government don't want us to know more about the real history of the Cultural Revolution and something sensitive in politics.
...I have to say, we can log into Google Scholar and Wikipedia in China. I even donated once for Wikipedia.
I often use them in China. Lol
Actually, I have to say, lots of people are able to use Google and Wikipedia in China even though Chinese gov officially bans them, including me. There are dozens of methods to cross the "wall".
so america could do the same bad thing since China had done so? Wheres ur pride of being the lighthouse of democracy then?
It is a mistake for China gov to ban wiki or google scholar. It is a mistake for US gov to ask IEEE to ban Chinese as well.However, you can not say that US gov is right in this way because China gov has done something wrong.
It seems that Huawei is the US hostage in the China-US trade negotiations. I wonder who the US company will be that China will decides to screw over in retaliation?
It is. Although I strongly believe Trump was going to use Huawei card after the trade negotiation. By that time, US would have had a good deal, and Huawei is a step to gain a lot more. Luckily for China, he has been forced to show this card now.
Apple, most likely. They seem like the easiest target.
Actually it's Boeing.
By targeting Boeing, they really are targeting FAA power over other national or transnational agencies. Can this cause repercussion on other US agency power? I know that FDA ruling is mostly ignored in western countries, and this do not impact any other US-based agencies, so maybe it won't have any other consequences.

If this only impact Boeing the US should be glad. And Boeing deserve a slap anyway. Their decision killed more than 300 people and the people responsible won't really be impacted (as the marginal utility of the money decrease the more you already have).

I don't really believe Chinese gov will play the same card to obtain leverages for the trade war, or maybe the last card
I don't think my homeland can actually harm the US in the trade war. We only dare to verbally declare that we want to fight back.
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IronCurtain V2.0?
Or McCarthyism 2.0.
Funny thing - McCarthy was right, in a sense: KGB informants were all throughout U.S. government and industry [0]. Unfortunately, he accused and abused lots of innocent people, so this fact is often overlooked.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/685lp2/was_j...

Ridiculous and a laughable accusation. The page you referred to has nothing substantial. Both Rosenberg and Hiss are proved to be innocent quickly but lots of people became silent because of McCarthy. If you want to go back to the dark ages, go yourself. Do not put your insensible sense to all the knowledgable people here.
Are you challenging the fact that the U.S.S.R. had extensive espionage networks in the U.S. during the 1950s, including the Rosenbergs who were in fact guilty of spying for the Soviet Union?

McCarthysim per se was horrible, but the fact remains that the Red Scare was grounded in historical truth.

https://www.amazon.com/Venona-Decoding-Espionage-America-Com...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg

If you hunt witches, there will always be witches to burn. If you try hard enough, any American can be a USSR spy.
What am I not stating clearly?

Witch hunts are bad, but yes, there was a large spy network. Perhaps it could have even been uprooted with measured counter-intelligence, instead of McCarthyism.

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The Chinese steal our Intellectual Property. They must be punished.
I'm by no means a friend of the chinese in a lot of ways, but that's a broad generalization.
Which of your IPs exactly have been stolen?
Industrial espionage is a thing most developed countries do, including the US.

What makes China so special is that it's actually gaining enough economic power to make the US go at economic war with them.

Could you point out which IP has been stolen?
That's a step too far. What's next, a ban on even talking to Huawei employees? I mean, if you want to be absolutely safe from serious legal troubles right...
IEEE is just for US, not for humanity. It should be shame of that VISION—"IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity."
I can not agree with you more!
Standards bodies, industry associations and the like are multi-country organizations. No single country should be able to prevent others from participating in such organizations. IEEE today and a few days ago the SD card and WiFi alliance banning Huawei seem to ignore the views of the members from the multitude of other countries who are also members of those orgs. Egregious violations of some written or unwritten code of conduct needs to be handled by multi-lateral institutions. For lack of a better organization, some wing of the UN perhaps?
Just wanted to add that IEEE is much more than a standards body. Lot's of conferences are held by IEEE.
Oh yes. I am an IEEE member of reasonably long standing and this just complicates things for everyone, particularly for IEEE chapters in other countries where Huawei may have a presence and are active participants locally.
It gets more complicated when considering Huawei is also a major sponsor to a variety of research conferences, open source projects, etc.

I wonder what is ACM's stand on this?

If the US intends to rile up the the Chinese population for decades to come, well I guess they're on a good path. Unbelievable.
The Chinese government needs no help in portraying this, or any other propionate U.S. response to Chinese trade policy, as an “insult to the Chinese people” and an outrage. Seriously, they’ve done it with much smaller stuff. It’s basically Fox News all the time in mainland Chinese news media, with government scriptwriters.

That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if Huawei got removed from the. blacklist as part of the ongoing U.S.-China trade negotiations, a la ZTE. Trump has already publicly mentioned this possibility. I hope this comes to pass, as reviewing IEEE papers seems like a fairly harmless activity.

I don't understand, how does a BIS list prevent communication ie IEEE reviews?
We need to kill Huawei first, with some collateral damages to others, so that Huawei cannot do bad things to us in the future, even though there is no evidence or court ruling that Huawei is hacking anyone at this moment.

Last time it was Iraq's WMD/washing powder.

Then you happy with surveillance by US gov everyday with Apple, Google, Amazon right? We feel happy when accuse others but never think about ourselves and the ‘ethical’ gov.
The best practice that proves academic reasearch can not be independent from governor.LOL
Lots of new accounts commenting here.

Interesting.