Huawei ban is tech trade war not national security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei
Huawei is a Chinese tech company making consumer electronics, telecommunications equipment. As of 2018 the company invested US$14.7 billion in R&D.

It has the following lines of business:

• Consumer electronics: Second largest smartphone maker in the world 
• Carrier business: Largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world. Huawei has deployed its products and services in more than 170 countries, and as of 2011 it served 45 of the 50 largest telecom operators.
• Enterprise business: IT Infrastructure including servers, storage, networking, cloud
• Subsidiary Huawei Marine is leading undersea cable network

Huawei 2018 annual report:
https://www-file.huawei.com/-/media/corporate/pdf/annual-report/annual_report2018_en_v2.pdf?la=zh

Huawei overtook Apple in 2018 as the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world. Based on growth momentum Huawei was on track to be largest smartphone manufacturer within two years:

Huawei overtook Ericsson in 2012 as the largest telecommunications-equipment manufacturer in the world:

Huawei has invested heavily to dominate the market for the next generation of wireless communications, called 5G. Huawei's lead in market share was destined to grow even further:

Huawei Marine is leading undersea cable network:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-takes-on-chinas-huawei-in-undersea-battle-over-the-global-internet-grid-11552407466

Huawei is a global leader on R&D expenditure (based on 2017 data):

Huawei have spent CNY101.5 billion (US$14.7 billion) on R&D in 2018:

Huawei is one of the world’s top owners of patents. As of December 31, 2018, Huawei had total of 87,805 granted patents.

Huawei is accused of stealing intellectual property from US based network companies yet this seems ridiculous as Huawei have more spent significantly more money on R&D and have more patents. How can the US claim that China have stolen 5G networking when the they clearly lagging behind in 5G?

The American government raised concerns that Huawei infrastructure may contain “back doors” - deliberate security flaws inserted to allow Chinese spies to eavesdrop on, or attack, phone networks. This means Huawei equipment could potentially be used as a tool for Chinese state espionage on the West, yet there has been no public proof that backdoors have been installed in Huawei equipment. Furthermore this completely ignores the fact that modern protocols can not be eavesdropped as they can be encrypted.

Over many years governments have examined Huawei security and found no evidence of backdoors or spying:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-spying-idUSBRE89G1Q920121017

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500243439/Huawei-not-spying-on-UK-concludes-Oversight-Board-report

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/26/canadian_security_boss_says_theres_no_reason_to_ban_huawei/

https://www.thelocal.de/20181216/german-it-watchdog-says-no-evidence-of-huawei-spying

European governments have asked for proof of backdoors, yet the US has not provided any public proof.

Germany, France and the Netherlands have said they will not block Huawei from participating in the expansion of national 5G networks:

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-leaders-we-wont-follow-trumps-huawei-ban/a-48768000

https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-block-huawei-not-best-way-to-defend-national-security/

The US are suggesting that Huawei infrastructure should not be used as it could be used by the Chinese for spying seems like hypocrisy as the US has been exposed spying by Edward Snowden. Snowden revealed the NSA’s PRISM program in June of 2013 as one of the American intelligence community’s tools for spying on the entire world (including allies):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

We know with certainty that the US government is spying on the world, yet the US government has long accused Huawei of potential spying even though there is no evidence that Huawei has done anything wrong.

On 15 May 2019, U.S. president Donald Trump issued the Executive Order on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain, which gives the government power to restrict any transactions with "foreign adversaries" that involve information and communications technology. Trump made no specific reference to China, Huawei, or any other party, but emphasised that these adversaries posed "unacceptable risks" to national security. The same day, also citing its violations of Iran sanctions, the Department of Commerce added Huawei and 70 "affiliates" to its entity list under the Export Administration Regulations. This restricts U.S. companies from doing business with Huawei without a government license.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-securing-information-communications-technology-services-supply-chain/

US Tech Giants Google, Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom have been ordered to stop supplying parts/software to Huawei:

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/google-intel-huawei.html

If the US are concerned about potential backdoors on 5G telecommunications equipment why cripple Huawei smartphone division by removing access to parts and cut off Huawei’s Android license? The smartphone division has nothing to do with national security of 5G telecommunications infrastructure.

This aggressive global campaign against Huawei has little to do with US national security, and more to do with the US desire to suppress a rising competitor.

This is a tech trade war. Huawei could supply venture capital funding for a new company in the US. Design, manufacture and market those US products as a US company. Nothing left to target. Of course, still sending the profits home to China.