Huawei Says No Law Requires Installation of Backdoors, But Other Laws Worry Western Governments

Huawei Says No Law Requires Installation of Backdoors, But Other Laws Worry Western Governments
A Huawei logo is pictured at the headquarters of the Chinese telecommunications equipment and smartphone maker in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China on March 6, 2019. Yuyang Wang/Reuters
Olivia Li
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The chief executive officer of embattled Chinese tech giant Huawei has  been doing the media rounds recently in attempts to assuage concerns that the company’s technology can be used by Beijing for spying.

In interviews with Western media outlets the company’s founder Ren Zhengfei has repeatedly denied that the Chinese regime could have backdoor access to the Huawei’s technology to spy on people overseas. He told CBS News on Feb. 19 that there is no such law in China that mandates any company to install the “backdoor.”