"In 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee went public with allegations that buying Huawei equipment for core networks would threaten national security."

So better buy US made equipment?. That will make it easier for the American NSA to snoop on and record your everyday communications, as they have a back door to most US made communications devices, including your iPhone. Frankly, I'd be more worried about what the US would do with our private communications than the Chinese. Obama's executive order, 2 weeks before the end of his term,  allowed the sharing of confidential NSA wiretaps and other intercepts with 17 other US intelligence agencies, which would inevitably be passed along or leaked to foreign agencies such as UK's GCHQ and Canada's Communications Security Establishment, which they can readily use against you if they want to nail you for any reason.

The real story missed by the MSM, is that the US has surpassed East Germany as a surveillance state.