Comments on: Watch: CBS 60 Minutes’s Piece On Huawei And ZTE, And The US House Intelligence Committee’s Damning Report

By: » To Serve People: Hu: The Man Who Lets the Dogs Out Beijing Cream

» To Serve People: Hu: The Man Who Lets the Dogs Out Beijing Cream — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:05:07 +0000

[...] The Chinese propaganda rags have a habit of referring to things in China as “China.” This is the case with Huawei or ZTE. These two companies ran into a spot of bother with the House of Representatives Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, if you haven’t heard. [...]

By: JonInSEA

JonInSEA — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:13:29 +0000

A country like China who can start/stop the anti-Japanese “destructive” activities like the water tap, cannot be trusted. The Australian government has banned the use of the Huawei equipment because of the risk of their spy activities. BT (British Telecom) in the UK must “cleanse” the Huawei equipment before use for malware/spyware which may be embedded within. Their CEO is ex-People’s Liberation Army. China is a country which everything, absolutely everything is controlled by a few people in the communist government and the military. Where there is such levels of concentration of the power, there always exists huge corruptions at every level of the society.

By: A

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:07:11 +0000

Huawei and many Chinese companies are notorious for not being transparent. That is a fault indeed and needs improving and is a valid reason for barring entry if documents aren’t satisfactory. However, to my understanding, the biggest fear is the perceived connection to the Chinese government because of Ren’s PLA background. But who a company’s founder is is something that can’t be changed. You can’t change history or who the founder is and my personal opinion is, Huawei as a company shouldn’t be penalized for this.

This article titled “Military entrepreneurs: not an oxymoron” made me wonder if it would be possible in 20 years time we’d hear of an American company started by former military personnel in “Strategic Industries” being barred from entering other countries for fear of its relationship to the Government. Hmmmm
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Growthology/2010/1029/Military-entrepreneurs-not-an-oxymoron

I see more people with background in the military doing an MBA or starting their own companies. If there’s fear that by nature of them operating in an industry that they have expertise but its considered a “national security threat” could it stifle innovation and entrepreneurship?

Given China’s history and is the world’s largest military force, I’m not surprised that there’s going to be at least 1 or 2 people who retire and go on to found global companies.

By: » The Obama Campaign Is First To Use Huawei As Political Fodder [Video] Beijing Cream

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:41:22 +0000

[...] that didn’t take long. It was in our 6 am post today that we said Huawei and/or ZTE would quickly become election fodder, and now we know how quick. The first blow [...]

By: KopyKatKiller

KopyKatKiller — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:26:59 +0000

“Neither company was forthcoming with detailed information about its formal relationships or regulatory interaction with Chinese authorities. Neither company provided specific details about the precise role of each company’s Chinese Communist Party Committee. Furthermore, neither company provided detailed information about its operations in the United States. Huawei, in particular, failed to provide thorough information about its corporate structure, history, ownership, operations, financial arrangements, or management. Most importantly, neither company provided sufficient internal documentation or other evidence to support the limited answers they did provide to Committee investigators.”

Not surprising. All this information is classified as “State Secrets” in the Glorious Middle Kingdom. I did hear that ZTE and Huawei denied the facts about their Party connections saying the Chinese Commie Party had no influence on their operations which is of course a BIG EFFING LIE!

All large Chinese business whether private or state owned are in fact run by the Party. “The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers” by Richard McGregor lays this out quite clearly.

The Party has ingrained itself in Chinese business to such an extent that Chinese Business s where its real power lies. In my opinion, no free Western state should allow any Chinese company into it’s market unless under a forced joint venture plan where the government of the Western nation has the majority of the shares and controls the company. essentially what happens when foreign companies set up shop here in China.