Posted on 01/11/2019 6:59:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Polish authorities detained and charged a local sales director of Huawei Technologies Co., a Chinese national, with conducting high-level espionage on behalf of China, amid widening global scrutiny by Washington and its allies of the technology giant.
The arrest is another bombshell for Huawei, following the early December detention of the company’s chief financial officer in Canada, at the U.S.’s request, on charges related to Iranian sanctions. Unlike those allegations, the nature of the charges in Poland speak directly to suspicions by Washington and other Western governments that Huawei could be used by Beijing as a global spying tool
For years, Washington has labeled Huawei a national security threat, saying it could be forced by China to use its knowledge of telecommunication equipment it sells around the world to tap into, or disable foreign communication networks. Huawei has denied that forcefully through the years. Part of its defense has been that it has not been implicated in overseas spying allegations.
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Fascinating article. Thanks for posting. That company has it’s greasy fingers everywhere.
Huawei is one of the world’s leaders in the new 5G technology. So is China’s ZTE.
*** Huawei is one of the world’s leaders in the new 5G technology. So is China’s ZTE. ***
And that is what this is all about.
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