One of the key issues surrounding Open RAN is how far Chinese technology and intellectual property can be excluded from it, if that becomes necessary to satisfy US regulations, given that a significant provider of seed code was China Mobile, and one of the biggest O-RAN plugfests to date was held in Beijing last year. The issue took on a new profile when the Biden administration added 43 new companies to the USA’s ‘entity list’ (US firms can only trade with listed companies if they gain a special licence, and these are not easy to secure). Of the new additions, 23 were Chinese, and one is a member of the O-RAN Alliance. This company is Kindroid, apparently a subsidiary of…