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2019-05-27 China-Japan-Koreas

Former Top MI6 Spy Reveals Huawei 99% Owned by China Communist Union

[American Thinker] Sir Richard Dearlove, former Head of British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 warns that 99 percent of Huawei is directly owned by the Chinese Communist Party.

In ’Defending Our Data: Huawei, 5G and the Five Eyes,’ Dearlove reports that by undercutting the prices of once dominant European telecom network equipment by 18-30 percent, Huawei’s sales rose from $4.6 billion in in 2014 to $105 billion in 2018.

Although customers give high marks to Huawei for quality and reliability, the key to achieving its 41 percent global telecom network infrastructure share has been Chinese state-owned banks lending $10 billion directly to Huawei or indirectly to its customers.

With a purported a $100 billion Chinese bank credit line, Huawei was positioned to gain an even more dominant market share with the roll-out of fifth generation cellular network technology (5G), before President Trump placed Huawei Technologies, Inc. on the U.S. Commerce Department's "Entity List," that bans American companies from selling components to Huawei without a U.S. government license.

President Trump’s actions may have reduced Huawei’s potential sales by up to 60 percent, due to follow-on bans by U.S. allies in Europe, Japan, Australia, and Canada and others. But given that Huawei runs on Google Android software and gets its chips from Intel and Qualcomm, the U.S. ban may be the equivalent of a technological death sentence.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-27 04:40|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 ...Dear Sir Richard:

Duh.

Respectfully,
Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-05-27 06:20|| 2019-05-27 06:20|| Front Page Top

The 'Cone of Silence' lifted at last. Sir Richard's amazing discovery, not so very different from here or anywhere else. Stop paying taxes on it and see who owns it next.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-27 09:27|| 2019-05-27 09:27|| Front Page Top

#3 I never get tired of reading lefty tech writers wetting their pants over how Trump is dealing with this.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-05-27 10:53|| 2019-05-27 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't forget that Lenova (which is Chinese based) was caught with malware and spyware embedded in the operating systems of their computers a few years back.

If you are at all worried about cyber security, you should not ever buy anything manufactured in China. Their technology industry is a direct arm of their intelligence gathering machinery.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-05-27 12:35|| 2019-05-27 12:35|| Front Page Top

#5 So where can I buy a computer that is NOT Made in China?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-05-27 14:19|| 2019-05-27 14:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I mean, I have a Samsung tablet that was made in Korea but the OS is Google's Android and it sucks. I've thrown myself at this device trying to figure out how to get anything useful out of it. It works with bluetooth keyboard and mouse but even so the Android OS is more of a child's toy than a useful tool for grownups.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-05-27 14:23|| 2019-05-27 14:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Abu Uluque: I build my own PC's (and will help if you want, I have some spare parts). I try to restrict my purchases to Korean (Samsung) and Taiwanese (Coolermaster, Gigabyte, Asrock) manufactured components. There is a USA made power supply, but likely has hybrid origins. That covers everything except CPU's; you never know there, but AMD's Ryzen's are supposed to be made in Taiwan. Nvidia is a USA company that uses TSMC, a Taiwanese company, for their fabs to make their GPU's. So buy an Nvidia card from Gigabyte and avoid the PRC. Mostly. Many components and chips will be made in the PRC. This wasn't true before, but it is now.

You can get a computer from Supermicro and spec it for no PRC parts, but I can't swear to full compliance, and it will be crazy pricey as you are specifying something that will be audited to the component level throughout the build. My only Mac is a Mac Pro that was supposed to be made in the USA. I know all the parts are not.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2019-05-27 17:20|| 2019-05-27 17:20|| Front Page Top

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