WikiLeaks: US Diplomats Hating on Huawei, Pressuring Suppliers to Avoid

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Source ft.com

US diplomats tried to stop sensitive technology being acquired by Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker, by putting pressure on potential suppliers in Europe, according to cables released by the WikiLeaks website.
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Several cables noted that Huawei has won a string of big contracts around the world, including Mexico, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, boosted by generous Chinese-backed “vendor financing” packages and legwork by Chinese embassies. In 2008, the US State Department asked its embassy in London to run a “blue lantern” defence industry background check on Spirent, the UK telecom equipment maker, over its plan to export technical data on the global positioning system from the US.

In a separate cable from 2004, a US official reported that he had told Dutch counterparts that Philips should be cautious about selling telecoms equipment to Huawei, because of fears it could be passed to the Chinese military.

This is an interesting read

 

[pedro_]

BT the uk phone operator is currently rolling out it's huawei voip network, in 5 years time all land voice in uk will be over huawei.

There has been lots of debate about whether we want a phone system that can be switched off by beijing.

Me no like...

Pete, on the move...

 

[pa49]

And on a late night BBC News 24 programme and few days ago we had the CEO/Chairman of Huawei Western Europe. This company is big and seems to have a lot of western investment of one sort or another and from what was said has plenty of feedin and feedback from China.

 

[pedro_]

BT network 'vulnerable to Chinese attack' ? The Register

"Despite consistent denials, western intelligence services believe Huawei has close ties to the Chinese military. Fears in Washington over the alleged relationship last year scuppered its attempt to acquire US telecoms equipment maker 3Com."