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Huawei on List of 20 Chinese Companies that Pentagon Says are Controlled by People’s Liberation Army

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday June 25 2020, @06:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the bad-company dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Huawei on List of 20 Chinese Companies That Pentagon Says Are Controlled by People’s Liberation Army:

The Pentagon put Huawei Technologies and Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology on a list of 20 companies it says are owned or controlled by China's military, opening them up to potential additional U.S. sanctions.

In letters to lawmakers dated June 24, the Pentagon said it was providing a list of "Communist Chinese military companies operating in the United States." The list was first requested in the fiscal 1999 defense policy law.

This list includes "entities owned by, controlled by, or affiliated with China's government, military, or defense industry," Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement.

[...] The companies on the list are:

Aviation Industry Corporation of China
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation
China Electronics Technology Group Corporation
China South Industries Group Corporation
China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation
China State Shipbuilding Corporation
China North Industries Group Corporation
Huawei Technologies Co.
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co.
Inspur Group; Aero Engine Corporation of China
China Railway Construction Corporation
CRRC Corp.; Panda Electronics Group
Dawning Information Industry Co.
China Mobile Communications Group
China General Nuclear Power Corp.
China National Nuclear Power Corp.
China Telecommunications Corp.

Given how inter-connected the world is, how practical would it be to avoid all such Chinese companies?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2020, @12:00AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2020, @12:00AM (#1012699)

    Here you go, this situation was actually worse in the past:
    http://congressionalresearch.com/98-197/document.php?study=chinas+military-owned+businesses [congressionalresearch.com]

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday June 26 2020, @01:58PM (1 child)

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Friday June 26 2020, @01:58PM (#1012836) Journal

    So yes, the article you cited stipulates there are "defense companies" owned by the PLA. You noted it is old, and I agree that a newer source is probably required.

    However, the article you cite states nothing about Huawei. So, more pressingly, I'll ask where is the proof of such ownership?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2020, @02:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2020, @02:20PM (#1012847)

      That's classified, maggot. Surrender your Hawuei and Xiaomi devices immediately.

  • (Score: 2) by Tokolosh on Friday June 26 2020, @04:37PM

    by Tokolosh (585) on Friday June 26 2020, @04:37PM (#1012909)

    Saying it does not make it so. Even if the alleged ties are true, does not mean that the companies are nefarious. I have yet to see any hard evidence that Huawei has been a bad actor in the West, or that it intends to be. OTOH, I can mention some with proven malfeasance - AT&T, Cisco, IBM, Amazon...