<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>augstein</author><text>So can we all finally agree, that Huawei stating it has no ties to the Chinese government, was a lie after all?&lt;p&gt;This false claim by Huawei, is one of the most important reasons why Huawei isn‘t already banned here in Germany.[1]&lt;p&gt;And while we are at it, we should also ban US companies from providing critical infrastructure like this in Germany (and Europe). After Snowden, its clear that hardware from US vendors like Cisco should be seen as potentially compromised.[2]&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.de&amp;#x2F;trumps-huawei-verbot-ist-reine-heuchelei-2019-5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.de&amp;#x2F;trumps-huawei-verbot-ist-rein...&lt;/a&gt;
2) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.infoworld.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;2608141&amp;#x2F;snowden--the-nsa-planted-backdoors-in-cisco-products.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.infoworld.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;2608141&amp;#x2F;snowden--the-nsa-p...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China&apos;s ambassador threatened Faroese prime minister to sign Huawei 5G deal</title><url>https://www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/banned-recording-reveals-china-ambassador-threatened-faroese-leader</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leke</author><text>A peek inside the cutthroat world of politics, only brought to you by an accidental recording of a private conversation.&lt;p&gt;I feel this information really shouldn&amp;#x27;t be hidden from the public as it&amp;#x27;s the public that is supposed to a part of a democratic system. How can we elect our officials and voice our opinions, if we are not informed of hostilities from foreign governments?&lt;p&gt;Do you think China would have even said that if they knew that each conversation is public record.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China&apos;s ambassador threatened Faroese prime minister to sign Huawei 5G deal</title><url>https://www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/banned-recording-reveals-china-ambassador-threatened-faroese-leader</url></story>