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I'm quite skeptical of the viewpoint in this article - just answering the question from the parent comment of "would China be justified in exploiting Huawei?"

The distinction that this article makes is that our clandestine operations have "democratic oversight." To be clear, I think the author would say that they are attempting journalistic neutrality, but they're giving considerable space to the argument that democratic clandestine services deserve a different standard.