The "paper " from an open source self-publishing website from someone teaching somewhere in Vietnam? BTW, this author is the same one who wrote the supposedly fake intelligence story about the Hunter Biden https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/securi...dwork-hunter-biden-conspiracy-deluge-n1245387 Pedigree (or the lack of) aside, the "evidences" amounts to no more than name matching someone worked in Huawei and some one worked in military-related colleges in China. Not very convincing to say the least. By the same token, you can claim the same about many US companies being controlled by the pentagon.
I was going to give the paper the benefit of the doubt and read it in its entirety when I got on a proper screen in a couple of days. But a quick glance seems to suggest the entire proof of China military involvement in Huawei is 3 resume of individuals who left the military to go work at Huawei? Seriously... That's exactly the type of bs fed day in, day out by the Trump administration to proof the narrative, and swallowed deep by millions of flat earthers, anti vaccins, meth induced paranoid conspiracy theorists.
Yeah Japan invaded China during WWII, committed horrendous atrocities against China like killing 100K people in Nanking in ONE day during the Nanking Massacre and yet Japan was one of the first country that China established both diplomatic and trade relationships with after WWII. Go figure. LOL
Below is the information regarding Huawei from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei. Feel free to read the article in its entirety. "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." In China, you do NOT get that kind of deals with the Chinese government or with the Chinese military without some connections (connections that foreign companies usually pay BIG money for) with either the government or the Chinese military. And you simply do not just walk into the Chinese Congress and talk to the Party general secretary without some kind of "background". China is not like the West here where you can talk to any congressman, House of Representative, for your district and you make big enough donation, you get to have your moment with the head honcho because we operate in a democracy where we believe everybody is equal and politicians are really there to serve the people. Over there in China and in many of the countries in the East, it's a lot more hierarchical, the levels of people that you have to go through in order to talk to somebody that has some importance is astronomical. And mind you Huawei at that time was just a small company that's had some success. Small companies like Huawei at the time were dime a dozen and yet he gets to talk to the party general secretary which is like the No. 1 top leader of the country??!! And he did not have any special connections in the government or the military?? "Huawei's Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer is Zhou Daiqi who is also Huawei's Communist Party Committee Secretary." This is one of the board of directors of Huawei and he is also the CEO of Huawei. This is like having Nancy Pelosi on the board of directors as well as the CEO in Johnson & Johnson. The only difference is Nancy Pelosi is at least elected by the people but Mr. Zhou is certainly not. "Ren Zhengfei retains approximately 1 percent of the shares of Huawei's holding company, Huawei Investment & Holding, with the remainder of the shares held by a trade union committee (not a trade union per se, and the internal governance procedures of this committee, its members, its leaders or how they are selected all remain undisclosed to the public) that is claimed to be representative of Huawei's employee shareholders. The company's trade union committee is registered with and pay dues to the Shenzhen federation of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. "About half of Huawei staff participate in this scheme (foreign employees are not eligible), and hold what the company calls "virtual restricted shares". "Scholars have found that, after a few stages of historical morphing, employees do not own a part of Huawei through their shares. Instead, the "virtual stock is a contract right, not a property right; it gives the holder no voting power in either Huawei Tech or Huawei Holding, cannot be transferred, and is cancelled when the employee leaves the firm..." Ren Zhengfei is the owner and founder of Huawei for those of you who are not familiar with Huawei. Even though Huawei is not technically owned by the CCP or the Chinese military but it in reality certainly is through this trade union committee that is directly controlled by the CCP which essentially owns 99% of the shares if the founder, Ren Zhengfei only owns 1% of the shares. And one more piece of information: Wikipedia is banned in China.
"The company's trade union committee is registered with and pay dues to the Shenzhen federation of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party." As someone who claims to work in the finance, you probably know the difference between "registered with and pay due to" and " is owned/controlled by".
Well if they are not controlled or owned by the government then why are they registered and pay dues to the CCP? I mean if I don't own you, you wouldn't need to pay anything to me right? Corporations pay taxes already in China if I am not mistaken and they are already registered in China so what's this extra dues and registration that this committee which controls 99% of Huawei still has to pay to the government if they are not owned or controlled by the government? And furthermore, why are they so afraid of disclosing the internal governance procedures of this committee, its members, its leaders or how they are selected to the public? This is like a secret organization that has 99% of the shares of Huawei and we have no idea who they are, what they do, and how they are selected. What's there to hide? Alibaba is not controlled/owned (not yet at least) by the Chinese government or military, all of its ownership information and corporate structure are all transparent and clear. There is no such of this "trade union committee" with secret members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group
You're taking our model and expecting it the match the Chinese? It's not going to happen! As Ma of BaBa found out, businesses in China must follow party guidelines regardless of how big and powerful your company or you are. Clearly, the Chinese communist party has a hand in everything and it's best to be on their good graces. It doesn't mean Huawei is an instrument of the Chinese military or that Huawei installed secret hardware/software to spy on its customers. Again, if you look at our own freedom loving democratic country, we know for a fact that AT&T had/has server rooms dedicated to government snooping on our population. We know for a fact that high ranking retired military personnel get jobs with the companies they do business with. We know for a fact that US intelligence set up covert IT security businesses in Switzerland for the purpose of spying on our allies. These are the things we know about because our media discovered it. Imagine how much we don't know... The point isn't to suggest China is a great model; it is to say that if we are going to point our finger at China, we better be sure that we don't do what we accuse them of doing. Also, we absolutely must differentiate was it fair competitive practices (fair, meaning we do to them what they do to us) from what is outright belligerent behavior, which we must, in concert with our friends and allies, address as forcefully as necessary.
No Huawei installed surveillance hardware/software and developed the network technology enabling the government to do the surveillance on its people because it's controlled by the government and the military. No need to sugar-coat it. Not all businesses in China do that unless of course they are controlled/owned by the government. Do you have any evidence? Please provide evidence showing all that you state here. No we don't. We just have to realize what China is doing and take necessary precautions to protect ourselves, i.e. delisting those state/military-controlled companies from our exchanges, banning their products/network like 5G network and etc. We don't give a s***!! China hasn't been playing fair for years with their super-low dumping export prices while at the same time doubling and tripling the tariffs on the things we export to them, fake products, forced technology transfer and joint-venturing with the government, technology theft, corporate espionage... Every single yuan that they are spending on their "one belt one road" project is gained through these unfair practices. And you want us to play fair?? We already did!! And look at how we ended up?
I will as soon as you provide evidence about Huawei. And if you consider the Associate Professor teaching in Vietnam's paper as evidence, it's not.