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Australia's block of Huawei is part of wider concern

Australia's decision to block Huawei from bidding for work on its $38 billion national broadband network has less to do with the Chinese telecoms firm itself and more to do with a growing concern that foreign countries - particularly China - are stealing the country's governmental and commercial secrets via the Internet, security analysts and researchers said.

Australia has blocked Huawei from bidding on the national network - one of the world's largest such infrastructure projects, which is expected to run high-speed Internet cables to all but the remotest of Australian homes - citing security concerns. It has not detailed what those concerns are.

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