The Epoch Times recently obtained government documents revealing that overseas divisions of Chinese state-owned companies and Chinese expat associations serve as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s outposts for pushing its economic and political agenda outside of China. The documents exposed that the CCP maintains close ties with state-owned businesses and has set up liaison offices […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Thursday it begun the process of revoking China Telecom’s authorization to operate in the United States as it took further steps to crack down on China’s role in U.S. telecommunications. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai noted several U.S. government agencies had recommended the revocation citing national security concerns. […]

BRASILIA/WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Monday the United States and Brazil both need to reduce their dependence on imports from communist China for their own security. At a virtual summit on increased U.S.-Brazil cooperation aimed at post-pandemic recovery, Pompeo underscored the importance of expanding bilateral economic ties, given what he called “enormous […]

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration plans to finalize regulations this week that will bar the U.S. government from buying goods or services from any company that uses products from five Chinese companies including Huawei, Hikvision, and Dahua, a U.S. official said. The rule, which was prompted by a 2019 law, could have far-ranging implications for companies that […]

WASHINGTON—The White House says it will strongly enforce a government-wide ban on purchasing any products or services from entities that use technology containing components manufactured by Chinese companies, as provisions of a law passed in 2018 come into force in August. The Trump administration believes the robust implementation of the new rule is critical to […]

Chapter Four:  Jiang’s Crusade Against Falun Gong (Part 2) Section 5      Transformation, Torture, and Sex Abuse. Transformation. Torture. Sexual Abuse. Cruelty Rewarded. Section 6      Organ Harvesting from Live Falun Gong Practitioners. Unidentified Practitioners Provide Major Source of Organs. Massive Arrests Correlate with Exponential Growth of Organ Transplants. Order Came from Jiang Zemin. Doctors Confirm Primary […]

BEIJING—Tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs were moved to work in conditions suggestive of “forced labor” in factories across China supplying 83 global brands, an Australian think tank said in a report released on Mar. 1. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) report, which cited government documents and local media reports, identified a network of […]

SHANGHAI—Government measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus in China could delay the rollout of next-generation 5G telecom networks, a key technology initiative for the country’s leadership. Tenders for six big 5G projects have been postponed since Jan. 31, government records show. They include an industrial internet project in Guangdong Province, a hospital-related project […]

Commentary Remember Lenin’s famous “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them”? Apparently he didn’t remember it either; it’s been caroming around the internet since 1955, long before there was an internet, without ever plausibly being connected to Lenin’s known writings or conversation. But as Peter Pan creator James Barrie […]

Vodafone’s broadband services joint venture with Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd has partnered with Nokia to roll out 5G services in Australia, the companies said on Jan. 6. The 5G drive comes as the joint venture is caught in a legal appeal process against an antitrust regulator’s move to block its proposed AUD$15 billion mega-merger with […]

China Telecom, a state-owned firm, said it’s ready to build a 5G mobile network with its rivals in order to reduce costs, a proposal that is likely to weigh on multibillion-dollar equipment orders for vendors such as Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies. The latter is privately owned, but has close ties to the Chinese military. […]

When asked about a report that Chinese telecom giant Huawei had secretly helped build and maintain North Korea’s commercial wireless network, President Donald Trump said on July 22 that “we’ll have to find out.” The Washington Post reported on July 22 that Huawei partnered with a state-owned Chinese firm, Panda International Information Technology Co Ltd, […]

WASHINGTON—Huawei Technologies, the Chinese company that the United States blacklisted because of national security concerns, secretly helped North Korea build and maintain its commercial wireless network, The Washington Post reported, citing sources and internal documents. The Chinese telecommunications giant partnered with a state-owned Chinese firm, Panda International Information Technology Co. Ltd., on a number of […]

U.S. prosecutorial evidence used to charge Chinese telecom giant Huawei and its CFO Meng Wanzhou in the federal case accusing them of violating U.S. sanctions on Iran may never be shown to the company because they are deemed too sensitive. After interviewing federal prosecutors involved in the case, Bloomberg reported on June 19 that Huawei’s […]

WASHINGTON/BEIJING—President Donald Trump said on May 23 U.S. complaints against Huawei Technologies might be resolved within the framework of a U.S.-China trade deal, while at the same time calling the Chinese telecommunications giant “very dangerous.” Washington last week effectively banned U.S. firms from doing business with Huawei, the world’s largest telecoms network gear maker, citing […]

Chinese authorities have opened an antitrust investigation into Swedish telecom-gear giant Ericsson, as its Chinese competitor Huawei Technologies Co. seeks dominance in the global 5G market. Ericsson confirmed in an emailed statement that it’s being investigated by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) because of complaints about its intellectual property licensing practices. The company said […]

NEW YORK/LONDON—An internal investigation by HSBC Holdings PLC into Huawei Technologies’ connections to a suspected front company in Iran found that the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker maintained close financial ties to the firm years after purportedly selling the unit, documents reviewed by Reuters show. The HSBC probe of Huawei came in late 2016 and 2017 […]

Banning Huawei Technologies from participation in building Canada’s high-speed 5G wireless network is probably inevitable, especially given opinion survey indications that most Canadians now want Chinese investment prohibited from “sensitive industries,” such as telecommunications. The Trudeau Government, currently immersed in serious rule of law issues with its highly-respected former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, should delay […]

OTTAWA—A Chinese telecommunication company secretly diverted Canadian internet traffic to China, particularly from Rogers subscribers in the Ottawa area, says an Israeli cybersecurity specialist. The 2016 incident involved the surreptitious rerouting of the internet data of Rogers customers in and around Canada’s capital by China Telecom, a state-owned internet service provider that has two legally […]

China poses a serious and growing threat to the United States, particularly in the field of technology, U.S. intelligence leaders told a Senate hearing Jan. 29. “Chinese pursuit of intellectual property, sensitive research and development plans, and U.S. personnel data remains a significant threat to the United States government and the private sector,” Director of National […]

LONDON/HONG KONG—The U.S. case against the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies, who was arrested in Canada last month, centers on the company’s suspected ties to two obscure companies. One is a telecom equipment seller that operated in Tehran; the other is that firm’s owner, a holding company registered in Mauritius. U.S. authorities allege […]

Each year, millions of eyes around the world are focused on this iconic crystal ball, sparkling high on top of Times Square waiting for its famous decent during the countdown of the final seconds of the year. On Dec. 27, workers installed 192 new Waterford Crystals on this year’s sphere. The ball is covered with […]

If China wants to retrieve Meng Wanzhou, the question is how many bargaining chips China has in its possession.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI—Chinese authorities are questioning former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, who was detained days after the arrest in Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, on suspicion of engaging in activities that harmed China’s national security. The state-run Beijing News said on Dec. 12 that Kovrig, who works for the International Crisis Group (ICG), had become the […]

TOKYO—SoftBank Group Corp. is set to raise 2.65 trillion yen ($23.5 billion) in Japan’s biggest-ever IPO—a share sale widely regarded as finalizing the group’s transition from domestic telco to a monolithic global tech investor. Telco unit SoftBank Corp. on Dec. 10 priced its stock at 1,500 yen apiece, as previously indicated. It also said it […]

The remarkable life of George H.W. Bush was honored by friends and family on Dec. 6. The state funeral culminated this afternoon with a journey aboard the bush 4141, a rare locomotive commissioned in 2005 to honor the president. The train, once operated by Bush himself, carried the statesman to his final resting place at […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. unveiled its much-anticipated foldable phone in San Francisco on Nov. 7, urging Android developers to start writing apps for it. The South Korean tech company needs to get the foldable phone right to reverse steep declines in profit for its mobile division and restore some of the cachet its brand […]

SYDNEY—Australia is to help Papua New Guinea develop a navy base and train police, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Nov. 1, the latest Australian action to protect its interests in the Pacific in the face of a more assertive China. Australia has for decades enjoyed largely unrivaled influence in the Pacific but China has […]

SYDNEY—Pacific nations Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands have signed on to a joint undersea internet cable project, funded mostly by Australia, that forestalls plans by Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to lay the links itself. Wednesday’s pact comes as China pushes for influence in a region Australia views as its backyard, […]

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may be intercepting communications from undersea cables, placing at risk all phone and internet data passing through major networks in the Asia-Pacific region. Existing research shows that Chinese military branches associated with cyberespionage maintain operations near key cable landing stations. A leaked report citing intelligence sources in the United States, […]