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Some Chinese Companies Are Giving Employees Incentives For Buying Huawei Devices or Just Giving Them One and Boycotting Apple (nikkei.com)
A growing number of Chinese companies are throwing their support behind Huawei Technologies following the recent arrest of its chief financial officer in Canada, taking such steps as offering subsidies for staff who buy the telecom equipment maker's smartphones. From a report: Many Chinese businesses have told employees they will receive subsidies if they buy Huawei smartphones to aid the company. Most are subsidizing 10% to 20% of the purchase price, with some even covering the full amount. Over 20 Chinese companies also took to social media to announce that they will increase purchases of other Huawei products, such as its business management system.
The show of support has been broad, from information technology providers to food companies. A regional government official said that several hundred businesses were conducting such programs nationwide. Electronics maker Shanghai Youluoke Electronic and Technology is fully subsidizing up to two Huawei smartphones per employee, while display equipment maker Shenzhen Yidaheng Technology will cover 18% of the price for Huawei or ZTE units. Fuchun Technology, a communications service company listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange announced on social media on Dec. 11 that it would give each of its 200 employees who buy Huawei's smartphone before the end of 2018 between 100 and 500 yuan ($14.5 to $72.5).
The show of support has been broad, from information technology providers to food companies. A regional government official said that several hundred businesses were conducting such programs nationwide. Electronics maker Shanghai Youluoke Electronic and Technology is fully subsidizing up to two Huawei smartphones per employee, while display equipment maker Shenzhen Yidaheng Technology will cover 18% of the price for Huawei or ZTE units. Fuchun Technology, a communications service company listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange announced on social media on Dec. 11 that it would give each of its 200 employees who buy Huawei's smartphone before the end of 2018 between 100 and 500 yuan ($14.5 to $72.5).
disclosure: im an american.
our countries rationale for blacklisting huawei are shady at best:
1. spooky chinese government Does not hold water. Literally every tplink, every cisco, every netgear, and every D-Link are made in China. millions of routers and switches already run on hardware built in or under the direct supervision of the PRC. We've snored through 40 years of offshoring to China and now the government is somehow insisting just this one vendor is a big issue? unlikely.
2.Violation of ITAR: the federal legal statute that prevents you from selling Hitler a router. If you sell to iran -- which Huawei allegedly did -- then you're going to pay a fine. google "ITAR violations" and youll see a litany of various US owned and operated companies that have violated ITAR including Bluecoat and Symantec. Its virtually impossible not to violate it. not once did the US arrest a CEO of any of the ITAR violating companies and request their extradition. In every single case, A fine was paid and business resumed as usual. these companies did not even legally have to admit fault.
so what is the REAL reason we cant have huawei? is it because the Honor 10 is so damned good compared to the iPhone? No,..
The worry is that China will get widespread 5G coverage before the US does, which will allow it to accelerate the development of specific 5G-reliant technologies, like self-driving cars. With the help of Huaweis equipment, China would displace Silicon Valley as the worlds innovation center.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Doing business in China already sucks. You basically must bribe the government with a 50% share of any company that wants to do business in China.
It sucks because of the 1.2 billion (or more) potential consumers.. but giving half your profits and all your technology to the Chinese gov't is not a smart plan.
"Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
This is what it looks like when the Chinese sleepers wake up and post on slashdot.
Meng's arrest was retaliation for Americans being arrested in China "Because the Chinese government felt like it."
China is an expansionist Han-Nationalist ethnostate. They are not shy about their desires to see Han-Chinese be the dominant world power and undesirables sent to "reeducation" camps that already exist.
Supporting or defending China is like supporting Nazi Germany and should be punished the same way.
This is nonsense.
Hauwei, One Plus, and ZTE phones were all caught spying on their owners and sending the data back home to China. And no, it's not the same as Facebook or Google. This is at the firmware level.
You may know that those companies have been banned for government use for a while now.
There is nothing "racist" or political about it. Companies that spy on people â" no matter who they are or where they're from â" are not welcome. Hauwei's CFO is apparently guilty of arranging trade with Iran in violation of U.S. trade sanctions, and lying about it. That's yet another concern.
Stop with the U.S-bashing already. There was perfectly good reason to do this.
THIS was from last February, in case you don't keep up with the news.