http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/13/huawei_sanqi_li_says_no_national_security_threat/
By Kelly Fiveash
The Register
13th September 2013
Exclusive A top Huawei exec has dismissed claims that his company poses a
threat to British and US national security - despite Western government
officials' fears over Huawei's alleged connections to the Chinese
Communist Party.
Professor Sanqi Li - speaking in an exclusive interview with The Register
at the multinational's R&D centre in Stockholm, Sweden - repeatedly
attempted to paint a picture of a benign company that simply deals with
"packet in, packet out".
When pressed about Parliament's concerns that Huawei may have too much
control over Blighty's critical infrastructure and communications systems
- based on claims that the company's chairman (and erstwhile member of the
People's Liberation Army) Ren Zhengfei was helping Chinese authorities to
spy on the Western world - Li said: "No, we are not a threat".
He added: "There's no substance, just more speculation."
Li, the company's Carrier Business Group CTO, said Huawei, which provides
equipment to Britain's one-time national telco BT, was an easy target
because it is a Chinese company that operates in the Western world. But he
insisted fears of compromised national security presented an industry-wide
problem for all tech outfits.
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