#2 "Huawei is up to its eyeballs with the Chinese military," said a defense official concerned about the deal.
China is still a communist country no matter how much they talk about reforms. Each and every Chinese company must be assumed to be controlled by the government which would, of course, include the PLA. That's what communism is.
Further, Google Huawei and Cisco together to find numerous online articles about Cisco's suit against Huawei for copying code and documentation from Cisco's Internet routers. I remember at one point Cisco pointed out the violation was so flagrant that the copied code even included bugs in the code that Cisco knew about.
For 3-Com to even consider a merger with these pirates moves me to suggest a new Rantburg category: -Corporate Whores-. |