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Huawei To Back Off US Market Amid Rising Tensions (nytimes.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the reverse-course dept.

Huawei is reportedly going to give up on selling its products and services in the United States (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source) due to Washington's accusations that the company has ties to the Chinese government. The change in tactics comes a week after the company laid off five American employees, including its biggest American lobbyist. The New York Times reports: Huawei's tactics are changing as its business prospects in the United States have darkened considerably. On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission voted to proceed with a new rule that could effectively kill off what little business the company has in the United States. Although the proposed rule does not mention Huawei by name, it would block federally subsidized telecommunications carriers from using suppliers deemed to pose a risk to American national security. Huawei's latest moves suggest that it has accepted that its political battles in the United States are not ones it is likely to win. "Some things cannot change their course according to our wishes," Eric Xu, Huawei's deputy chairman, said at the company's annual meeting with analysts on Tuesday. "With some things, when you let them go, you actually feel more at ease."

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  1. Yeah... by Parker+Lewis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "suppliers deemed to pose a risk to American national security" == "suppliers do not accept to sell products with NSA backdoors"

    1. Re:Yeah... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I don't think Huawei would have let this go so easily if that were the reason. They'd either have inserted the backdoor like presumably the other suppliers, or they'd have let the public know that the NSA wanted them to insert a backdoor into their products but that they refused to do so. I think it's more likely that some of Huawei's products contain PRC backdoors and that they aren't prepared (or legally able) to remove them.

    2. Re:Yeah... by sg_oneill · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "suppliers deemed to pose a risk to American national security" == "suppliers do not accept to sell products with NSA backdoors"

      Huwai and the Chinese govt probably couldnt give a damn about the NSA spying on american citizens anymore than the american govt caring about china spying on chinese citizens. Its only when it crosses the border do govts get anxious.

      None of the actors here actually give one knob of goatshit about our rights.

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      Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
  2. paywalled by Reverend+Green · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please stop posting paywalled links. No one here wants to read them. No one here wants paywalled sites to get any traffic.

  3. Re:It's not surprising that they'd give up by JackieBrown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just like those steel tariffs the White House justified by citing Chinese steel dumping, China accounts for 2.9 percent of US steel imports, ... but who cares about 'facts', tariffs on China play well with the base

    Then why would this result in a trade war if it doesn't actually effect anything?