The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday launched a "sweeping" new investigation of businesses linked with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and which still operate in the US.
"The FCC has taken concrete actions to address the threats posed by Huawei, ZTE, China Telecom, and many other entities that pose an unacceptable risk to America’s national security, including by doing Communist China’s bidding. To safeguard our networks, the FCC has placed those CCP-aligned entities on our Covered List, and we have revoked many of the FCC authorizations that they had been operating under," FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in a statement.
Furthermore, the FCC vowed it would prevent the companies included in its Covered List evade the restrictions and continue to do business in the US "on a private or unregulated basis."
