{"id":34882,"date":"2013-07-19T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=34882 "},"modified":"2013-07-19T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T23:12:00","slug":"34882-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=34882","title":{"rendered":"Huawei denies spying allegations by former CIA chief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There have been concerns over Huawei’s ties with the Chinese government and military<\/div>
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Huawei has denied claims made by a former US Central ­Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief, Michael Hayden, that it has spied for the Chinese government.<\/div>
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Mr Hayden was quoted by the Australian Financial Review as saying that it was his “professional judgment” that the firm supplied intelligence to ­China.<\/div>
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However, Huawei said the claims were “unsubstantiated” and “defamatory”.<\/div>
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Huawei, one of the world’s biggest telecom equipment makers, has faced increased scrutiny in recent times.<\/div>
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Last year, US politicians claimed that the company posed a security threat because of its alleged links to China’s government and military.<\/div>
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On Thursday, the UK government said that it would review Huawei’s involvement in a cybersecurity centre.<\/div>
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‘Sad distractions’<\/div>
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The concerns over its association with the Chinese authorities have been driven in part, by the fact that the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, was a former member of the People’s Liberation Army.<\/div>
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However, Huawei has repeatedly denied those claims and has stressed that it is 98.6%-owned by its employees.<\/div>
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In an article published by the Australian Financial Review, Mr Hayden claimed that Western intelligence agencies had information about Huawei’s “clandestine activities”.<\/div>
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He was quoted as saying that Huawei at a minimum had “shared with the Chinese state intimate and extensive knowledge of the foreign telecommunications systems it is involved with”.<\/div>
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However, Scott Sykes, head of international media affairs for Huawei, told the BBC that these remarks were “sad distractions from real-world concerns related to espionage – industrial and otherwise – that demand serious discussion globally”<\/div>
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