Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fired his ambassador to China, John McCallum, on Saturday over remarks McCallum made about the arrest and possible extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, declares itself for Team Huawei.
The U.S. faces a January 30 deadline to formally request extradition from Canada for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei spoke to foreign reporters this week for the first time since his company concluded a disastrous year of cyber-espionage suspicions, bans by the United States and other governments, and Canada’s arrest of Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, who happens to be Ren’s daughter. Ren did some damage control for Huawei in his press engagements, striving to project optimism and stressing his corporate independence from the Chinese Communist government.
Probe arose out of civil lawsuits alleging Huawei stole technology from U.S. companies.
The Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan announced on Tuesday that smartphones and computers from China’s Huawei corporation will no longer be allowed to connect with its internal network. The ban was imposed “for the sake of information security.”
Contents: Huawei plans to become world’s biggest smartphone supplier as it introduce Huawei P Smart 2019; Poland arrests Huawei employee on spying allegations; Chinese economic expert Xiang Songzuo warns that economy shows signs of crashing; Xiang’s Headline statistic: At most 1.67% GDP rate of growth; China’s Five phases of consumption; Major misjudgments about China’s economy
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland has arrested a director at the Chinese tech giant Huawei and one of its own former cybersecurity experts and charged them with spying for China, authorities said Friday.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland’s Internal Security Agency has charged a Chinese manager at tech giant Huawei in Poland and one of its own former officers with espionage against Poland on behalf of China, Polish state television reported on Friday.
China’s ambassador to Canada, Lu Shaye, accused Canada of “Western egotism and white supremacy” in a Wednesday op-ed denouncing the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
Reuters reported Wednesday on extensive documentation linking front companies in Iran and Syria with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, whose chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is currently in Canadian custody and may face extradition to the United States.
China’s government-run Global Times newspaper encouraged the world on Thursday to embrace capital punishment for drug crimes, lamenting that “some people are still spending plenty of time talking about human right [sic] of drug smugglers.”
Britain’s Defence Secretary has articulated “grave, very deep concerns” about the role of Chinese tech giant Huawei in the forthcoming roll-out of the fifth-generation (5G) mobile data network, because of the leverage and access Huawei’s equipment and software could potentially give to the Chinese government.
Social media firm Facebook reportedly used data obtained from the Chinese company Huawei, which has been referred to as a “security threat” by U.S. intelligence, for the platform’s “People You May Know” feature.
The Canadian government said on Wednesday that police have detained a third Canadian citizen in China. While Ottawa provided no details of the arrest, an official said there is “no reason to believe that this case is linked” to the detentions of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor – whose arrests last week were in turn clearly linked to Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
On Tuesday, China’s state-run Global Times accused the United States of “mobilizing its allies” to “strangle” Huawei, a nefarious campaign in which the “unfair persecution” of Meng is only one element.
The Chinese government has said little about its reasons for arresting Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor this week, but on Thursday, the state-run Global Times published an editorial explicitly framing the arrests as revenge for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
The suicide of Chinese-American physics professor Shoucheng Zhang, who dabbled in technology investment outside of his position at Stanford, has raised concerns this week after an anti-Chinese regime publication revealed his ties to the Chinese tech giant Huawei.
China has apparently arrested another Canadian, just a few days after detaining analyst and former diplomat Michael Kovrig. The second detainee is Michael Spavor, a businessman with ties to North Korea who helped arrange meetings between dictator Kim Jong-un and former basketball star Dennis Rodman.
Contents: China recklessly arrests a second Canadian without justification; US blames China for Marriot data breach in plan to create massive database of American citizens; Google CEO Sundar Pichai evades questions about helping China’s military
Former Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) told Breitbart News that China uses technology and finance as tools to globally project its communist ideology.
Contents: China jails Canadian journalist Michael Kovrig in apparent retaliation for Canada arrest of Meng Wanzhou; US State Dept considers stronger travel warning for China; How Michael Kovrig infuriates the Chinese; Canada releases Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on bail
Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat who currently works for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, has reportedly been detained in China while working on a research project pertaining to North Korea.
A Canadian judge ruled on the Huawei executive’s request to be released on bail.
The Huawei executive was arrested in Canada on Dec. 1 at the behest of U.S. officials.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A jailed Chinese technology executive will have to wait at least one more day to see if she will be released on bail in a case that has raised US-China tensions and complicated efforts to resolve a trade dispute that has roiled financial markets and threatened global economic growth.
Over the weekend, a group of unidentified burglars broke into the home of the arrested Huawei executive. Police have not arrested any suspects.
Lawyers for the Chinese telecom executive argued Monday that she wouldn’t be a flight risk because jumping bail would embarrass China.
On Saturday night in Buenos Aires, Chinese President Xi Jinping sat across the dinner table from President Trump and rattled off a list of 140 promises on trade, intellectual property, and a host of other matters.
Contents: Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou faces possible 30 year jail term; Japan blocks Huawei products from public infrastructure projects; The story of Stern Hu, an employee of Australian mining company Rio Tinto; Arrest of Meng Wanzhou of China’s Huawei has increasingly serious implications
Fmr. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called on the West to to keep Chinese telecommunications company Huawei out of 5G networks.
Canadian prosecutors say Meng lied to banks when she claimed Huawei and Sky Com were different companies.
Contents: Canada arrests the chief financial officer of China powerhouse Huawei; China reacts with fury at the arrest of Meng; English-speaking ‘Five Eyes’ countries are banning Huawei products
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Trish Regan Primetime,” President Trump’s Assistant for Trade and Manufacturing Policy, Peter Navarro, stated that neither President Trump nor National Security Adviser John Bolton were aware of the arrest of Huawei CFO
The arrest stemmed from an investigation begun after a compliance monitor at HSBC noticed suspicious transactions in Huawei’s accounts, according to reports.
The arrest of China’s Sabrina Meng was not a suprise to Bolton, who attended the dinner in Buenos Aires the same day she was taken into custody by Canadian authorities.
It is hard to find a precise analogy but imagine if Sheryl Sandberg were the daughter of Steve Jobs and China arrested her.
Sabrina Meng is one of the best-known business leaders in China. Her arrest has sparked outrage and demands for her release.
Canadian authorities on Saturday arrested Huawei Technologies CFO Wanzhou Meng in Vancouver at the request of U.S. authorities, according to a report.
The United States and China are in a race to develop fifth-generation (5G) cellular wireless technology, which could determine who controls mobile telecommunications in the future, and experts and lawmakers warn the U.S. could lose unless the Trump administration does something fast.
