https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47274679
The founder of Huawei has said there is "no way the US can crush" the company, in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
Ren Zhengfei described the arrest of his daughter Meng Wanzhou, the company's chief financial officer, as politically motivated.
The US is pursuing criminal charges against Huawei and Ms Meng, including money laundering, bank fraud and stealing trade secrets.
Huawei denies any wrongdoing.
Also at CNBC.
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @06:57AM (1 child)
... making sure Trump doesn't get a deal with China.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @08:24AM
HWNCU
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @07:16AM (7 children)
The US are going to find that the Chinese will play hardball and stand up for their interests, unlike weak sauce European countries.
Won't matter too much in the end for the two elephants fighting here, but Canadians are going to be crushed underfoot.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @10:50AM
Really? When I enter "Huawei" into Google Translate it comes back with "guilty".
I'll put my money on the US.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @03:49PM (2 children)
lol, it seemed pretty effective for Europe to just threaten the very specific companies of Trump backers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @06:40PM (1 child)
So much for words. Did US policy change as a result?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @08:06PM
Are you not sure?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday February 22 2019, @05:30PM (1 child)
Consider that in I think 2009 or maybe '08, a Chinese sub crept within Torpedo Range of a US Carrier Group member, ascended to periscope depth, snapped a photo of not just that one within-range ship but several others not far out-of-range, descended then snuck back to China.
As a _profound_ achievement in Force Projection, China proceeded to blast that photo all over G-d's Creation.
Oddly, I am unable to find that photo anywhere now.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @11:02PM
There is no proof those photos are even real and china has a grand total of 9 nuclear attack submarines. All of them primitive by modern standards. Their killer torpedo the yu-6 is similar to a mk-48 from 20 years ago. Note the modern mk48 is... well modern.
Furthermore China is not stupid and though it appears they would like to become a global military leader their advancements are practical and not a collection of suicide tier doomsday devices like Iran and Russia. Because they'd actually rather not engage with the US.
To give you an idea what the iranian navy looks like it's full of small boats and electric submarines, for US engagements they'll be armed with the incredibly unstable hoot torpedos, very similar to the high test peroxide shekvals that sunk the kursk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @10:50PM
Good shilling AAA+++++++ wood trol agin
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @10:28AM
geez, i wonder what else a company leader could say or do... or should?
"it was reported that wowway chief was delivered to mental hospital for emotional
break down and uncontrolable sobbing. 5-6 liters of fluid have been administered to stem
the fluid loss, the hen news reported.
the break down is assumed to have been caused by bullying news from the worlds biggest debtor..."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 22 2019, @03:13PM (1 child)
Huawei is pretty big, and pretty important to China. If Huawei has their ducks in a row, and their government backs them - the US isn't going to crush them. Not unless the US is willing to go to war - and even then it's questionable.
Of course, China probably doesn't look favorably on Zhengfei publicly running at the mouth. Government style is more behind-the-scenes, and low key. Trumpeting challenges for the entire world to hear may cause the government to abandon Huawei.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @03:52PM
Well, another small insignificant country Germany, just said; "Fuck off, we're going with Huawei."
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday February 22 2019, @05:25PM
"... no one nation can crush us."
"We are, after all, a multinational."
In my own observation from working on Soggy Jobs, of those multinationals whose locations predominantly employ engineers - not Apple, for example, it's Culture Of Secrecy favors Mothership work - Huawei has by far the very large number of locations.
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