27.2. Huawei (华为, Chinese Qualcomm)
Just look at the Chinese name of the company:
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华 (China)
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为 (to do something for)
How can the West not see this?
No proof is needed. They belong to a Why does Ciro Santilli say that China is a dictatorship? (中国不是独裁！), and therefore must not be trusted. Doing so is always a risk which we should not take.
Also have a look at their Wikipedia page:
Ren sought to reverse engineer foreign technologies with local researchers. At a time when all of China’s telecommunications technology was imported from abroad, Ren hoped to build a domestic Chinese telecommunication company that could compete with, and ultimately replace, foreign competitors.
During its first several years the company’s business model consisted mainly of reselling private branch exchange (PBX) switches imported from Hong Kong. Meanwhile, it was reverse-engineering imported switches and investing heavily in research and development to manufacture its own technologies. By 1990 the company had approximately 600 R&D staff and began its own independent commercialization of PBX switches targeting hotels and small enterprises.
The company’s first major breakthrough came in 1993 when it launched its C&C08 program controlled telephone switch. It was by far the most powerful switch available in China at the time. By initially deploying in small cities and rural areas and placing emphasis on service and customizability, the company gained market share and made its way into the mainstream market.
Huawei also won a key contract to build the first national telecommunications network for the People’s Liberation Army, a deal one employee described as "small in terms of our overall business, but large in terms of our relationships". In 1994, founder Ren Zhengfei had a meeting with Party general secretary Jiang Zemin, telling him that "switching equipment technology was related to national security, and that a nation that did not have its own switching equipment was like one that lacked its own military." Jiang reportedly agreed with this assessment.
Another major turning point for the company came in 1996 when the government in Beijing adopted an explicit policy of supporting domestic telecommunications manufacturers and restricting access to foreign competitors. Huawei was promoted by both the government and the military as a national champion, and established new research and development offices.
At any point the Chinese government could make a request that they cannot deny.
List of bad things Huawei has done: https://github.com/evil-huawei/evil-huawei Mostly not political.
List of Huawei joke:s https://github.com/HuaweiJoke/Huawei-Joke "This project is collecting jokes about Huawei company that are deleted due to censorship. You are welcome to contribute."
Some news:
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2021-09-20 https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-19/huawei-s-decline-shows-why-china-will-struggle-to-dominate U.S. sanctions seems to have worked
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2021-01-13 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55634388 "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech". Related: EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR (2020)
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5G 2019-2020
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in 2020 the UK was trying hard to get kicked out of the 5 eyes in 2020 by using 5G equipment from Huawei
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2020-06-25 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-53178998 "Huawei’s £1bn research centre near Cambridge approved" so despite all the 5G stuff, the UK still allows them to create a new research center in the UK… are they blind?
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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/28/tech/huawei-5g-uk/index.html (archive) "UK will allow Huawei to help build its 5G network despite US pressure"
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2020-04-17 only after more than 10 thousand people died in the country during Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查) did the brits finally change their minds: https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/uk-moves-to-drop-huawei-as-5g-vendor-citing-china-coronavirus-transparency/ "UK moves to drop Huawei as 5G vendor, citing China coronavirus transparency"
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2018-12 Meng Wanzhou (孟晚舟), daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei (任正非) and Huawei CFO as of 2018, was arrested in Canada because the US accused her of breaking Iran sanctions
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor-canadian-detainees-china-explainer/ "Why are Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor still detained in China?" in apparent retaliation, under accusation of espionage.
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2021-09 When Meng was released, they were immediately released as well. What a coincidence!!! https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/spavor-kovrig-return-1.6189516
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2020-05-27 https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/canada-court-finds-against-huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-on-double-criminality-extradition-trial-to-continue/ "Canada court finds against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on double criminality; extradition trial to continue"
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2019-11 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/11/29/has-huaweis-darkest-secret-just-been-exposed-by-this-new-report/#7896db9d4061 "Has Huawei’s Darkest Secret Just Been Exposed By This New Surveillance Report?" Xinjiang Papers reveal the extent of Huawei’s involvement in Xinjiang (新疆)
Figure 263. When you send a good joke from your Huawei phone (你用你的华为手机发个好笑话的时候), Xi Jinping (习近平, 2012-∞, Heil卐!) is also listening and laughing with you, girls. Source, shitty Chinese translation by Ciro Santilli (三西猴, anti-CCP fanatic, 反中共狂热, stupid cunt, 傻屄, CIA agent, CIA特工, 肏你妈的).
Figure 264. Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist) 2018-12-10 "Why does the whole world hate me" Huawei cartoon, where Huawei’s shadow shows the hammer and sickle to suggest that Huawei is controlled by the CCP. Source.
Figure 265. Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist) 2019-03-08 showing Huawei slapping the Statue of Liberty with "The Constitution of the United States" when Huawei sued the US Government for violating the Constitution when it banned government agencies from buying Huawei equipment. This illustrates the usual dilemma where China uses Western freedom of speech as a weapon against the West itself. Source.
Figure 266. Cartoon showing a huge China flag branded USB sucking up Western personal and military information like a vacuum cleaner in 2019-04-29 article entitled "Britain will regret doing business with Huawei". TODO cartoon author. Source.
Figure 267. Cartoon suggesting that Huawei’s 5G is a like a Trojan Horse being gifted to Europe. TODO: source of original non-China generic Trojan Horse background image that was edited and repurposed. Source.
Figure 268. Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA cartoonist) 2019-06-22 cartoon depicting Germany, Hungary and the United Kingdom as Gollums from The Lord of The Rings and China as Sauron offering a ring which reads "5G to rule them" and "Huawei" to the Gollums who are eager to obtain it. This is a reference to The Lord of the Rings backstory in which Sauron bribed and controlled the rulers of the world by giving them rings of power. Now that Ciro thinks about it, maybe this was actually Tolkien making a reference to the political situation of his time. Source.
Just look at the Chinese name of the company:
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华 (China)
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为 (to do something for)
How can the West not see this?
No proof is needed. They belong to a Why does Ciro Santilli say that China is a dictatorship? (中国不是独裁！), and therefore must not be trusted. Doing so is always a risk which we should not take.
Also have a look at their Wikipedia page:
Ren sought to reverse engineer foreign technologies with local researchers. At a time when all of China’s telecommunications technology was imported from abroad, Ren hoped to build a domestic Chinese telecommunication company that could compete with, and ultimately replace, foreign competitors.
During its first several years the company’s business model consisted mainly of reselling private branch exchange (PBX) switches imported from Hong Kong. Meanwhile, it was reverse-engineering imported switches and investing heavily in research and development to manufacture its own technologies. By 1990 the company had approximately 600 R&D staff and began its own independent commercialization of PBX switches targeting hotels and small enterprises.
The company’s first major breakthrough came in 1993 when it launched its C&C08 program controlled telephone switch. It was by far the most powerful switch available in China at the time. By initially deploying in small cities and rural areas and placing emphasis on service and customizability, the company gained market share and made its way into the mainstream market.
Huawei also won a key contract to build the first national telecommunications network for the People’s Liberation Army, a deal one employee described as "small in terms of our overall business, but large in terms of our relationships". In 1994, founder Ren Zhengfei had a meeting with Party general secretary Jiang Zemin, telling him that "switching equipment technology was related to national security, and that a nation that did not have its own switching equipment was like one that lacked its own military." Jiang reportedly agreed with this assessment.
Another major turning point for the company came in 1996 when the government in Beijing adopted an explicit policy of supporting domestic telecommunications manufacturers and restricting access to foreign competitors. Huawei was promoted by both the government and the military as a national champion, and established new research and development offices.
At any point the Chinese government could make a request that they cannot deny.
List of bad things Huawei has done: https://github.com/evil-huawei/evil-huawei Mostly not political.
List of Huawei joke:s https://github.com/HuaweiJoke/Huawei-Joke "This project is collecting jokes about Huawei company that are deleted due to censorship. You are welcome to contribute."
Some news:
-
2021-09-20 https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-19/huawei-s-decline-shows-why-china-will-struggle-to-dominate U.S. sanctions seems to have worked
-
2021-01-13 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55634388 "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech". Related: EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR (2020)
-
5G 2019-2020
-
in 2020 the UK was trying hard to get kicked out of the 5 eyes in 2020 by using 5G equipment from Huawei
-
2020-06-25 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-53178998 "Huawei’s £1bn research centre near Cambridge approved" so despite all the 5G stuff, the UK still allows them to create a new research center in the UK… are they blind?
-
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/28/tech/huawei-5g-uk/index.html (archive) "UK will allow Huawei to help build its 5G network despite US pressure"
-
2020-04-17 only after more than 10 thousand people died in the country during Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查) did the brits finally change their minds: https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/uk-moves-to-drop-huawei-as-5g-vendor-citing-china-coronavirus-transparency/ "UK moves to drop Huawei as 5G vendor, citing China coronavirus transparency"
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2018-12 Meng Wanzhou (孟晚舟), daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei (任正非) and Huawei CFO as of 2018, was arrested in Canada because the US accused her of breaking Iran sanctions
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor-canadian-detainees-china-explainer/ "Why are Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor still detained in China?" in apparent retaliation, under accusation of espionage.
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2021-09 When Meng was released, they were immediately released as well. What a coincidence!!! https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/spavor-kovrig-return-1.6189516
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2020-05-27 https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/canada-court-finds-against-huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-on-double-criminality-extradition-trial-to-continue/ "Canada court finds against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on double criminality; extradition trial to continue"
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2019-11 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/11/29/has-huaweis-darkest-secret-just-been-exposed-by-this-new-report/#7896db9d4061 "Has Huawei’s Darkest Secret Just Been Exposed By This New Surveillance Report?" Xinjiang Papers reveal the extent of Huawei’s involvement in Xinjiang (新疆)
