Reply #2: Rick Perry loves him some Huawei

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Rick Perry: Chinese Spy Enabler?

Over the past year, Gov. Rick Perry helped pave the way for China's largest telecom company—a firm with ties to the Chinese military and intelligence services that have sparked concerns among defense officials and senior lawmakers—to relocate some of its operations to Texas.

Earlier this month, a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the Chinese military confirmed that the Huawei, the company in question, maintains close ties with the Chinese army. From The Washington Times:

report states that Huawei’s 2010 annual report failed to mention that , considered the most trusted aide to Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, has ties to , fueling suspicions of “potential close links between Huawei and the Chinese government.”

Mr. Ren was identified in the report as having worked for China's military from 1974 to 1983 in the engineering corps. The report says that Mr. Ren is purportedly China’s most influential business leader “who seldom mentions his military background in public.”

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More at: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/rick-perry-chinese-spy-enabler