Huawei founder denies his company helps China spy, and he praises Trump
Ren Zhengfei, the billionaire founder of China’s Huawei Technologies Co., broke a years-long silence to dismiss U.S. accusations that the telecommunications giant helps Beijing spy on Western governments.
Ren denied suggestions that Huawei aids the Chinese government in espionage, saying it has no regular contact with the government as his technology empire faces its biggest crisis in its three decades of existence.
He also called Donald Trump “a great president” and said he’ll take a wait-and-see approach as to whether the U.S. leader will intervene on behalf of Huawei finance chief Meng Wanzhou. Meng — Ren’s eldest daughter — is in Canada facing extradition to the United States on allegations of helping defraud banks to avoid sanctions on Iran.
The emergence of the reclusive Ren, who last spoke with foreign media in 2015, underscores the depth of the attacks on Huawei, the largest symbol of China’s growing technological might. Meng’s arrest helped crystallize fears about Huawei’s growing clout in areas that include cutting-edge wireless infrastructure, semiconductors and consumer gadgets. The U.S. government has since persuaded a growing list of allies to blacklist Huawei networking equipment.
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-huawei-ren-zhengfei-20190115-story.html
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What a pathetic state of affairs.
