Australia’s Defense Department will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese Communist Party-linked companies from its buildings, the government says after the U.S. and Britain made similar moves.
The Australian newspaper reported Thursday that at least 913 cameras, intercoms, electronic entry systems and video recorders developed and manufactured by Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua are in Australian government and agency offices, including the Defense Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.China’s Embassy to Australia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
China’s general response to such moves is to defend their high tech companies as good corporate citizens who follow all local laws and play no part in government or party intelligence gathering.The U.S. government said in November it was banning telecommunications and video surveillance equipment from several prominent Chinese brands including Hikvision and Dahua in an effort to protect the nation’s communications network.
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