Western media organizations happy to hype

Even Micron, the US chip giant, might not have expected China's ban of its products to make waves in Western media reports.

Hours after China announced that Micron had failed its security review and asked key domestic network security management companies to suspend purchase of its products, the ban made headlines in almost every Western media outlet. A majority of them, if not all, even tried to link it to restrictions the United States and its allies had imposed on China, implying that the move was political.

It is good to note that even Western media outlets realize the unfair restrictions their governments have imposed on China. For far too long, the US has been abusing its dominance in the global technological sector to contain China. Without any solid basis, using the guise of "national security", the US has launched attacks against Huawei and ZTE. It has blocked Huawei in their country, even though that means their 5G network construction will lag far behind.

The US and its ally Canada even detained Huawei senior executive Meng Wanzhou for 1,028 days under an unsubstantiated charge.

While reporting about those incidents, the Western media outlets were careful to categorize them as business news, not even once mentioning the word "politics". However, now that China has suspended a US company's product out of security concerns, the same Western media outlets are crying "politics". No wonder some of the outlets are not taken seriously in their own country, often being criticized for peddling fake news. They are rarely known to describe things as they happened, but as what they believe should have happened.

As a company, what Micron needs to do is to improve its security measures to clear China's national security review. The Western media is not helping much by hyping things up.