Cleaning up the Justice Department with shock and adoration, undead Joe Biden moves forward with no purpose.
A flock of zombie lawyers within the department launched legal attacks on two American high-tech companies that threatened mergers that threatened Huawei, the Communist Party's global communications and technology giant.
The slow-moving American legal process only helps China outperform American companies.
Anti-trust action centers around a 1914 law that blinded China's hegemony. That law, Clayton Antitrust Actcreates monopolies and prohibits mergers that may curb competition.
Antitrust laws may be necessary, but federal lawsuits have curbed competition in America. This is our most frightening weapon against foreign enemies. And it directly contradicts President Trump's national security-driven technological crackdown on national security-driven Chinese companies, particularly Huawei.
Counter to Huawei
The Justice Department hatched the lawsuit under the Biden administration more than a year ago, and is now being criticized by Trump. The problem is $14 billion Merger Between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks, companies say they will accelerate the development of critical technologies such as 6G and AI-driven networks.
HPE argues that combining its storage and computing strength with Juniper's expertise in data center routing and switching creates a formidable alternative to Cisco, which controls more than half of the US wireless communications market.
The company said in January that the merger will “enhance secure, unified, cloud, and AI natural networking, leading innovation to exascale from the edge to the cloud.”
It also competes against Huawei, which manages 30% of global telecommunications and the 5G marketplace. Cisco controls only 7%.
In January, the Department of Defense named Huawei the Chinese Army. Many national security experts fear that the company's equipment includes a back door that aids and promotes China's People's Liberation Army. Chinese law requires that all businesses cooperate with the government's intelligence reporting agency and provide services.
Increased US competition will be extremely helpful in mitigating Huawei's global impact.
Playing with Chinese hands
A lawsuit has been filed that surpasses Biden's tenure In federal court on January 30th10 days after Trump took office. The Federal Trade Commission participated.
None of the Justice Department's statements show concern that by linking the HPE Janiper merger in the lawsuit, it will support the Chinese Communist Party's goals of global intelligence control, censorship and espionage. Instead, it focuses on the 1914 law.
The attack on the merger began under Attorney General Merrick Garland and was executed by Biden's appointment Jonathan Canterthe assistant attorney general at the time was the anti-trust division. Kanter has been in its position since 2021, running an offensive anti-trust genera. It claims to prevent further large technological integration, which is said to be harmful to competition and innovation. The agenda was part of a broader Biden economic policy to curb corporate monopolies and “protect” consumers.
Kanter built the case on the last day of the Biden administration.
Representative Attorney General for Antitrust Trump's appointment Omeed A. Assefi We have signed Kanter's actions against HPE-Juniper.
Assefi represents a strange mix of Washington. He served as a White House lawyer during Trump's first term, but was later appointed by Biden as federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia. Trump then named him representing the antitrust division, waiting for confirmation from the Senate of Trump's candidate. Gale Slater.
Slater is also an antitrust law on big technology, but it's not an ideologue that zombie lawyers are suing. Her research at 5G and China's telecoms suggests she sees antitrust enforcement through a geopolitical lens. It ensures that US companies remain competitive against rivals like Huawei. She has not publicly commented on the HPE-Juniper merger.
The Department of Justice's focused action risks undermining HPE-Juniper's ability to challenge HPE-Juniper's pricing and technological advances, particularly in AI-driven networking, which is critical to future infrastructure. Huawei could misuse long-standing lawsuits against HPE-Juniper for the benefits of the Chinese Communist Party in key international markets.
US vs China in the high-tech competition
The focus of the merger is primarily on enhancing data center capabilities, an essential sector for AI and cloud computing, rather than a wireless local area network that is fixed by the Department of Justice. The stronger HPE Janiper can accelerate innovation and drive competition from its constant rival, Cisco, but more importantly, against Huawei.
Here, the Department of Justice's narrow antitrust focus has conflicted with China's control over American technology since 2018, particularly a consistent and powerful attitude towards Huawei.
The slow-moving American legal process simply helps Chinese companies like Huawei surpass American companies at a breathtaking pace of technological advancements.
The FBI's valuable but small anti-intelligent capabilities are not comparable to China's economic and industrial espionage. This will rob American companies of innovation and bring them to the market with cheaper and more advanced technologies.
Antitrust enforcement is essential, but it has not sacrificed the ability of the Chinese Communist Party to overtake us with artificial intelligence and global communication.
