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The US Cannot Crush Us, Says Huawei Founder (bbc.com)
The founder of Huawei has said there is "no way the US can crush" the company, in an interview with the BBC. From the report: Ren Zhengfei, founder and president of Huawei, described the arrest of his daughter Meng Wanzhou, the company's chief financial officer, as politically motivated. The US is pursuing criminal charges against Huawei and Ms Meng, including money laundering, bank fraud and stealing trade secrets. Huawei denies any wrongdoing.
Mr Ren spoke to the BBC's Karishma Vaswani in his first international broadcast interview since Ms Meng was arrested -- and dismissed the pressure from the US. "There's no way the US can crush us," he said. "The world cannot leave us because we are more advanced. Even if they persuade more countries not to use us temporarily, we can always scale things down a bit." However, he acknowledged that the potential loss of custom could have a significant impact. [...] Mr Ren warned that "the world cannot leave us because we are more advanced". "If the lights go out in the West, the East will still shine. And if the North goes dark, there is still the South. America doesn't represent the world. America only represents a portion of the world."
Mr Ren spoke to the BBC's Karishma Vaswani in his first international broadcast interview since Ms Meng was arrested -- and dismissed the pressure from the US. "There's no way the US can crush us," he said. "The world cannot leave us because we are more advanced. Even if they persuade more countries not to use us temporarily, we can always scale things down a bit." However, he acknowledged that the potential loss of custom could have a significant impact. [...] Mr Ren warned that "the world cannot leave us because we are more advanced". "If the lights go out in the West, the East will still shine. And if the North goes dark, there is still the South. America doesn't represent the world. America only represents a portion of the world."
Just want you to follow the law.
You can do business any way you like within those confines. Not our problem if you can't hack it without hacking others.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It's a little obvious when they don't EVER address the charges of theft, theft, theft, spying, fraud, etc, and then make blustering statements for their illegitimate cabalist criminal government directly like this. Fuck China, fuck Huawei.
Sink em.
When asked, Mr. Ren did not wish to discuss the communist party members they were forced to hire in order to monitor their compliance with the Chinese government's diktat that all software companies must be available to be part of state intelligence collection operations. Instead he ended the interview.
The link to the story reminded me why I stopped reading BBC News online. Too many video ads, and when you scroll down they keep interfering with the text I am trying to read. Too disruptive, I closed down the webpage quickly.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
I remember back when Huawei started, I was working at Cisco, and Cisco took them to court for stealing the code to IOS and shipping it running on their own routers (which I think were also hardware copies of cisco routers).
Cisco won because Huawei hadn't bothered to fix the typos in the IOS text. The Huawei routers had identical text errors in "their" UI. They also had Cisco's IOS bugs too!
"businesses" in China are the government.Having any Chinese business in your infrastructure is what it is.
;)
If you do not mind the Chinese Government/Military having complete access your good.
If the Chinese Government/Military having complete access is a problem you have some issues to deal with.
Same applies to US, Russia, EU, the list goes on for each and every Country.
just my 2 cents
What does this mean? "And if the North goes dark, there is still the South."
I dunno. Is it incredibly awful and you're only watching it because it's an easy way to test if your display chain is properly handling Dolby Vision through Netflix / over the network?
Well, why didn't they rule the world 2000 years ago when they were a 3000 year old monoculture and everyone in the West was barbarians?
This is only the beginning.
You messed with the wrong people, sunshine.
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The burning question is what did Stimpy think about it?
Also, was it Paul Allen or the Woz who sponsored the US Festival? I can't remember.
"Hey Tim!"
"Yeah?"
"They said we couldn't crush them!"
"I dunno! I've got the sights lined up perfect!"
"Bombs away!"
*DOPPLER WHISTLE*
*SPLAT!*
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
The Han dynasty, which existed 2000 years ago was a golden period for China. They ruled over an area larger than the Roman empire. It just wasn't the part of the world we typically learn about in western history (and religion).
Exactly. When I lived in Korea ('85-94), my wife used to brag about their ~5000 year old culture. My response back then was that they were still a bunch of backward fucks. Which was true at the time since the economy there didn't really start to expand until after the '88 Olympics, and most everything produced there was simply a copy of something made elsewhere...trademark/patent infringement was common and nobody seemed to care. The interesting thing to me was watching the incomes skyrocket, and jobs move away to China and elsewhere. Similar to what had occurred in Japan. Now that we're seeing the Chinese wages increase, I wonder where the factories will move.
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