Chinese telecom giant Huawei has started legal action in the UK seeking access to internal documents of British-based bank HSBC, in a bid to prevent the extradition of its senior executive Meng Wanzhou from Canada to the United States. Meng, 48, was arrested by Canadian police on a U.S. warrant in December 2018 while on […]

Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne fired back at Beijing for criticizing Ottawa’s efforts in building an international alliance to free Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor from Chinese prisons. In an interview with the Canadian Press this week, Champagne said he would do what he thinks is best for Canada’s interest and would not follow […]

Canadian government lawyers are concerned about “witness safety” for a retired RCMP officer living in Chinese territory who has refused to testify in Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s case. Defence lawyer Richard Peck revealed earlier this week that Ben Chang, a retired RCMP officer, had informed Meng’s lawyers and the Crown that he will not give […]

The Conservatives are pushing the Liberal government to make a decision on whether to ban Huawei technology from Canada’s 5G wireless networks, while devising a plan to counteract the Chinese regime’s interference in Canada.  The Tories have introduced a motion that would require the government to make a decision on Huawei within 30 days. It […]

LONDON/SAO PAULO—An obscure Hong Kong-registered company stands at the center of the U.S. criminal case against China’s Huawei Technologies and its chief financial officer. U.S. authorities allege the giant telecom-gear maker used the firm to skirt American economic sanctions on Iran between 2007 and 2014. Huawei has said it sold the business in 2007 and […]

LONDON/DUBAI—China’s Huawei Technologies acted to cover up its relationship with a firm that had tried to sell prohibited U.S. computer gear to Iran, after Reuters in 2013 reported deep links between the firm and the telecom-equipment giant’s chief financial officer, newly obtained internal Huawei documents show. Huawei has long described the firm—Skycom Tech Co Ltd—as […]

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), is urging the UK Parliament to reconsider its decision to allow China’s Huawei a role in British 5G telecommunications networks amid a slew of security concerns. Nearly two dozen lawmakers called on the United Kingdom to work closely with […]

At least two U.S. administration officials have publicly voiced concern about the importance of finding an alternative to China’s Huawei Technologies for 5G infrastructure and of developing potential partnerships with the telecom industry as one of the actions that could achieve this. Experts told The Epoch Times that it would be a good move by the […]

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s newly launched Mate 30 devices have lost their access to manually install Google’s Android apps, Bloomberg reported on Oct. 1. According to the report, security researcher John Wu published a blog post on Tuesday that explained how users of Huawei’s Mate 30 Pro were able to manually download and install Google […]

VANCOUVER—There is no evidence Canadian border officials or police acted improperly when Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was detained and arrested at Vancouver’s airport nearly 10 months ago, the attorney general of Canada said in a filing released on Sept. 23. The filing was made available as Meng and her lawyers sought additional disclosures […]

WASHINGTON—White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow will host a meeting with semiconductor and software executives on July 22 to discuss the U.S. ban on sales to China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, two sources briefed on the meeting said on July 19. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will also attend the White House event, to which chipmakers […]

NEW YORK—The U.S. government filed a motion on July 3 asking for the dismissal of a lawsuit by Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd that claimed the United States had acted illegally when it blacklisted Huawei’s products. Huawei sued the U.S. government in early March of 2019, in a complaint filed in federal court […]

WARSAW—On a frigid morning in January, Polish internal security officers entered the Warsaw apartment of a foreign businessman, confiscated photographs, seized his electronic devices, and detained him. The allegations leveled against him were sensational: An ex-diplomat who speaks Polish, he, and a former Polish security official had spied on behalf of a foreign power. The […]

A U.S. jury on June 26 cleared California semiconductor designer CNEX Labs Inc of stealing trade secrets from Chinese electronics giant Huawei Technologies while awarding CNEX no damages on its own trade theft claims. Huawei had sued CNEX in U.S. District Court in Sherman, Texas, for misappropriation of trade secrets involving a memory control technology […]

WASHINGTON—The White House Office of Management and Budget has told the U.S. Congress it will now meet a two-year deadline to ban federal contracts with companies that do business with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, part of a defense law passed last year, according to a letter seen by Reuters. “Congress has made it clear in […]

Canadian telecom provider Rogers Communications Inc’s vice chairman, Philip Lind, said on May 30 that Huawei Technologies Co should be banned from Canada’s 5G network, Bloomberg reported. While Huawei is cheaper and sophisticated compared with other alternatives, its close relationship to the Chinese government is troubling, Lind told BNN Bloomberg in a TV interview. U.S. […]

TORONTO—Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou described her house arrest in Vancouver as “restricted to a limited space” even as she spent her past six months in a six-bedroom, multi-million dollar Canadian home. Meng, 47, has access to top lawyers, moves around relatively freely in Vancouver, albeit with restrictions, and her comments drew immediate comparison […]

FRANKFURT—German chipmaker Infineon has suspended shipments to Huawei Technologies, in a sign that Washington’s crackdown on the Chinese tech company is beginning to hamper its supplies beyond the United States, Nikkei Asian Review reported on May 20. Infineon had no immediate comment. Citing two people familiar with the matter, Nikkei reported that Infineon’s decision to […]

A Portuguese entrepreneur claims that Chinese tech giant Huawei stole his 360-degree smartphone-attachable camera invention after he pitched the patent-pending product to the company for licensing five years ago. The offending product, according to Rui Pedro Oliveira, CEO of multimedia company Imaginew, is Huawei’s smartphone-attachable camera called EnVizion 360 Camera, announced in 2017. The 45-year-old […]

China last week threatened repercussions if Ottawa blocked Huawei, a warning the Canadian government dismissed. Relations between the two nations soured after a top Huawei executive was arrested in Vancouver last month on a U.S. extradition warrant. Canadian officials are studying the security implications of 5G networks, the latest generation of cellular mobile communications, but their report is not expected in the immediate future, a source close to the matter said last week. Richard Fadden, who served as the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service spy agency from 2009 to 2013, cited what he said was mounting evidence for blocking Huawei.

Security experts in Canada and across the pond in the United Kingdom are urging universities to be cautious of telecom giant Huawei given growing cyberintelligence concerns around the company. Huawei has an extensive network of academic relationships with leading research universities around the world. In Britain, top universities like Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, and York have […]

News Analysis WASHINGTON—While the West has only recently recognized the potential security threat posed by Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, some China insiders have long known that the company is part of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) apparatus. Huawei toes the party line very closely on issues including, for example, the persecution of Falun Gong, a […]

After Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested, Hong Kong media have unveiled details of the local properties owned by her and her father.

SYDNEY—Australia must restrict some firms from providing equipment for its 5G mobile communications network because it is such critical infrastructure, the head of the domestic intelligence agency said, helping to explain why China’s Huawei was banned. Australia expanded its national security rules in August to include telecommunication equipment suppliers, an order that prevented Huawei Technologies […]

CNEX, an American startup company, has accused Chinese electronics giant Huawei of forcing it to divulge key technology related to solid state drives (SSD), a next-generation form of data storage.

The U.S. government has ordered a national security review of Singapore-based Broadcom’s $117 billion bid to acquire U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm, in an unusual move that prompted the latter to delay its March 6 shareholder meeting. The government action on March 4 highlighted growing U.S. concerns about safeguarding semiconductor technology and cast a doubt on the deal’s success. […]

WASHINGTON—China is trying to gain access to sensitive U.S. technologies and intellectual properties through telecommunications companies, academia, and joint business ventures, U.S. senators and spy chiefs warned on Feb. 13 at a Senate hearing. Senator Richard Burr, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he worried about the spread of what he called “counterintelligence […]

Nokia shareholders Tuesday approved the $7.35 billion acquisition of Nokia’s mobile phone business by Microsoft. Over 5,000 Nokia shareholders voted on sale at a meeting in Helsinki, Finland.  According to the Financial Times, 99.7 percent of the voters surveyed—about 80 percent of the shares— voted for the sale before the meeting. Nokia Corp.’s share price […]

The world is well aware of the competitive disadvantages and trade distortion tactics it faces when dealing with the Chinese regime’s market. Citing a number of reports by China experts, the media has made it quite clear that basically all Chinese enterprises are beholden to China’s regime in one way or another, and thus all of China’s foreign competitors are at a disadvantage.

China stealthily integrated itself into America's telecommunications market over the past several years and is taking advantage of the United States' superior name brand to further its goals, alleges a U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) report this month.