Huawei goes on attack against US restrictions (emergency comm network)

Source: FT

Huawei, the Chinese telecoms company, has launched an aggressive counter-offensive against the US government, saying it is high time the US detail “unsubstantiated” national security concerns in the wake of a decision to block the business from building a national emergency communications network.

“Stop the manufactured fear. If you have something to say, substantiate it,” said William Plummer, Huawei’s vice-president of external affairs. The comments represent the most assertive response the company has made since the US began systematically blocking the company from acquiring US assets in 2008.

The group has, in effect, been barred from acquiring two companies over the past four years by the US government, which also intervened in a separate attempt by Huawei to bid for a big contract with Sprint, a big US telecommunications operator. In that instance, according to a person familiar with the matter, the government was also contemplating actions that would have barred Huawei from importing into the US, but stopped short of doing so.

Huawei had formerly maintained a fairly deferential tone in its dealings with the government. But it is now demanding answers from the US Department of Commerce after officials blocked it from getting involved in the building of a national wireless emergency communications network.

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Sort of like I am sure we didnt let the soviet union build our fallout shelters.

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Rick Perry: Chinese Spy Enabler?

Over the past year, Gov. Rick Perry helped pave the way for China's largest telecom company—a firm with ties to the Chinese military and intelligence services that have sparked concerns among defense officials and senior lawmakers—to relocate some of its operations to Texas.

Earlier this month, a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the Chinese military confirmed that the Huawei, the company in question, maintains close ties with the Chinese army. From The Washington Times:

report states that Huawei’s 2010 annual report failed to mention that , considered the most trusted aide to Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, has ties to , fueling suspicions of “potential close links between Huawei and the Chinese government.”

Mr. Ren was identified in the report as having worked for China's military from 1974 to 1983 in the engineering corps. The report says that Mr. Ren is purportedly China’s most influential business leader “who seldom mentions his military background in public.”

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More at: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/rick-perry-chinese-spy-enabler

Huawei did this by selling the modems below cost in key markets until all competitors went bankrupt or were acquired. It is a Chinese government controlled company that has a commercial enterprise facade.

The US government needs to subsidize a US manufacturer of wireless USB modems to break the monopoly and reduce Huawei's power.

I could say this about a lot of Chinese companies.

And letting a communist country get a monopoly is capitalism.

along with US Corporations wanting to save big buck have a finger, yea, whole hand in fucking us up!