Huawei CEO Says Company Doesn't Spy For China and Praises Trump in Rare Appearance (cnbc.com)

Huawei would never allow China's government to access customer data, even if Beijing requested it, the CEO and founder of the company repeatedly emphasized Tuesday, amid continued political pressure on the Chinese technology giant. From a report: In a rare sit down with international media, Ren Zhengfei addressed concerns raised by the U.S. government, which has warned that the company's equipment could allow the Chinese government to have a backdoor into a nation's telecommunications network. Ren, speaking Mandarin and using a company-provided translator, told the group that Huawei has never handed data to Beijing. "When it comes to cybersecurity and privacy protection we are committed to be sided with our customers. We will never harm any nation or any individual," Ren told the journalists assembled at Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen, China.

"China's ministry of foreign affairs has officially clarified that no law in China requires any company to install mandatory back doors. Huawei and me personally have never received any request from any government to provide improper information," Ren added. [...] But Ren actually praised the U.S. president. "For President Trump as a person, I still believe he is a great president," he said. "In the sense that he was bold to slash taxes. And I think that's conducive for the development of industries in the United States."

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Canada

[Anonymous Coward]

After the way China has chosen to treat Canadians over there I don't need Trump to encourage North America to stop consuming Chinese goods. I can do that myself.

Re:Canada

[dryeo]

They originally gave him 15 years. After the Huaweii incident, they seem to have decided to give him the death sentence and had a court session with the press invited to change the sentence. Inviting the press to a court session is seldom done.

Wow he figured it out!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow he figured it out that if you praise Trump, you get favorable treatment from him and his administration!

Re:Wow he figured it out!

[jellomizer]

I have worked with Bosses who were like Trump. They are easy to manipulate and control, and I can normally get my way without them making any fuss, and they will often stand behind me.
Their Ego is their biggest flaw, you keep their ego happy and make them feel like they are the Big Boss man who we all love. They will most of the time give you free reign, as long after your done, he looks good.
They are actually extremely ineffective as a Boss, an most people really don't like them, because if you cross their Ego there is hell to pay. And their Ego would trump (no pun intended) and greater good thinking or long term thinking. And as an employee who is manipulating the guy you are also competing against other employees who may be manipulating him in the other direction.

Re:Wow he figured it out!

[squiggleslash]

Not sure why this is modded so highly. The only money Iran got in the recent Iran deal was money that already belonged to it that we owed them. The "Promise not to build Nuclear Weapons" thing is, you know, a part of any anti-Nuclear treaty, why would you expect it not to be in there? And "Attack and kill Americans" isn't a thing Iran is currently involved in in any serious way, if it were we'd be at war already.

The truth right now is that Iran is the one county in the Middle East (other than Israel, which we're already friends with) that's close (albeit still a way from) having a proper democracy and popular government. It's a country we were, until the mid-seventies, friends with, and it's a country that was, until the revolution, extremely Westernized.

And here's the kicker: anything that promotes friendly relationships with the West undermines the religious government of Iran and strengthens the secular government. You feed into the "Great Satan" narrative by promoting treating Iran as lepers. You want to undermine Islamic fundamentalism? Make friends. Get Iran on good terms with the US. There's a lot of work to be done, some of the antagonism has legitimate roots (Iran suffered from terrible interference in its political affairs throughout most of the 20th Century until the revolution thanks to Britain and America) and has to be taken into account. But this whole "We're just enemies and we need to keep it that way" shit needs to end.

Shame on those who would prefer war and would prefer it remain unstable and hostile.

Not dumb

[Anonymous Coward]

They're not dumb. They're appealing to Trump's pride, which is the smart move. He seems to be motivated by being lauded. Will be interesting to see if he moves in their direction after they've sung his praises.

Re:Blame Canada

[Anonymous Coward]

Murder isn't retaliation, it's trying to start a war.

Re:whereas ....

[Luckyo]

It's not just that. Every large company has a department that is specifically there to maintain political compliance. This department has ability to displace anyone in the company and is staffed by CCP officials who are picked by CCP itself and company has no real power over.

That's why CEO of Huawei can openly state that government never made any requests like this to him. They didn't. They make such requests to CCP officials within the company who almost certainly handle the matter as an internal CCP policy that CEO has no real say in.

BS [Re:Special Advisors!!! Oh Noes!!!]

[Tablizer]

when they were "specialist advisors" to Obama.

So Obama is the one who crashed the US economy via banking deregulation? Buy a real history book, dude, not the Fox Edition. (Canada avoided much of the mortgage bubble slump by having sufficient regulations. It's also true that Bill Clinton, a Democrat, contributed to problematic banking dereg.)

And T uses drone strikes also.