::: spoiler australia doing the same shit

Banned from tendering in the National Broadband Network in 2012, banned from participating in the 5G network in 2018, called for removal of surveillance/security cameras in 2018, funded undersea cables in the pacific to block Huawei in 2018, purchased Digicel to prevent Chinese involvement in 2021

US, UK, CAN & AU, 5eyes has been frothing over this for a while

The $2.1 billion deal to acquire and run Digicel Pacific is being funded largely by the government, which will provide $1.9 billion toward the acquisition.

Telstra said it would contribute $360 million and own 100 per cent of the company's ordinary equity.

"Australian officials were concerned about whether a Chinese company or potentially a Chinese state-owned entity might look to buy Digicel's Pacific arm and there were some geopolitical and geostrategic concerns about a Chinese company owning a major telecommunication company in the Pacific region, which is of course so close to Australia," said Amanda Watson, an expert in Pacific communications at the Australian National University.

That's especially since Digicel Pacific uses a 4,700km undersea cable from Sydney that was largely funded by the Australian government in 2018 in an effort to prevent PNG and the Solomon Islands from contracting Huawei for the project.

Ahh my bad, that was 3 years earlier instead

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-25/telstra-digicel-pacific-telecommunications-deal-finalised/100564976