The US government’s anti-China policies are damaging US firms and stimulating China’s domestic technological self-sufficiency. The exclusionary actions from the US are all well and good until they start to affect the global telecoms community. Further attacks against China could lead the discussion to the gates of the 3GPP standards group, which is well attended by Chinese firms, namely Huawei. This week, news leaked that the US is investigating the access that China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom have to US data, through their cloud and internet routing services. The Biden administration is concerned that the operators can share American data with the Chinese government. The US Commerce Department have completed “risk-based analyses” of China Mobile and China Telecom, but…