Huawei Canada’s senior official insisted the company’s CFO Meng Wanzhou has “done nothing wrong,” and refused to condemn China’s arbitrary detention of Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. Morgan Elliott, Huawei Canada’s vice president of government affairs, repeated the claim of Meng’s innocence, while dodging questions on whether the company views her arrest to be morally equivalent to China’s […]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday placed a hold on the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s pick for Commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, saying she has not yet clarified whether she backs keeping China-based company Huawei on a restricted trade list. The move is likely to delay the floor vote by up to 30 hours as […]

A group of House Republicans on Tuesday called on their fellow Senate colleagues to delay the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s pick for Commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, until the president clarifies whether he backs keeping Huawei on a restricted trade list. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led […]

Three Republican senators known for their hawkish stance on China are calling on President Joe Biden’s Commerce Department nominee to clarify if there are any circumstances under which she would remove China’s telecoms equipment giant Huawei from a trade blacklist that the Trump administration placed it on due to concerns about national security. Sens. Marco Rubio […]

News Analysis The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced on Jan. 6 that it would resume delisting the three Chinese telecom stocks—China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom (Hong Kong)—after saying it would stop doing so on Jan. 4. The NYSE said in a statement published on its website that it had scrapped the plans […]

Taiwan-based startup HollyGold has accused a mainland Chinese company of stealing its logo to create a copycat firm. The startup company deals with blockchain technology and its goal is to revolutionize the film and television industry with virtual currency, according to its website. HollyGold’s CEO, Dior Wu, claimed that his company’s logo and his own […]

Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) has introduced a bill requiring companies listed on the U.S. stock exchanges to disclose if they have ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “This legislation would provide unprecedented transparency for American investors with respect to CCP investments in publicly traded companies,” Barr said in an Aug. 5 press release. “CCP […]

Jesus College Cambridge received financial contributions of several hundred thousand pounds from Huawei and a Chinese state agency in the last two years, a freedom of information request revealed. The contributions raise speculation about the university’s links to the controversial telecom company and Beijing, as well as issues of transparency. In September 2019, Jesus College […]

Saskatchewan’s SaskTel may become the latest Canadian telecommunications company to announce it will not use Huawei technology for its 5G network infrastructure, following in the footsteps of Bell and Telus. “We’re going to follow suit with what Bell and Telus are doing for our 5G. We will look at other vendors, specifically Nokia and Ericsson,” […]

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) applauded the Pentagon’s decision to issue a list of Chinese companies that are owned or controlled by the Chinese military. The list of 20 Chinese companies was published on June 24 in response to a request by Sens. Cotton, Gallagher, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Ruben Gallego […]

Telus has announced that it’s partnering with Huawei rivals Ericsson and Nokia for the development of its 5G network, hours after BCE Inc. said it’s partnering with Ericsson. The news delivers a major blow to the ambitions of Chinese telecom giant Huawei to be a significant player in Canada’s 5G infrastructure. The decision comes as […]

VANCOUVER—A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled against a Huawei executive wanted on fraud charges in the United States. Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes says in a decision released Wednesday that the allegations against Meng Wanzhou could constitute a crime in Canada. “On the question of law posed, I conclude that, as a matter of […]

Welcome to the China Angle. I am Simone Gao. In a sense, the pandemic is a world war. In the European war zone, a sort of Winston Churchill is needed, one who sees what’s really at stake at this time, and is able to act courageously and single mindedly to defeat the enemy in both […]

Beijing is threatening retaliatory measures against the United States, after the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a new export rule to block Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei from obtaining semiconductors made with U.S. technology. On May 17, China’s Ministry of Commerce issued a statement, accusing the United States of “abusing export control measures” and “damaging market […]

Attorney General William Barr will head a newly established committee that will review national security concerns arising from foreign-owned companies who wish to participate in the U.S. telecommunications network. The committee was established by President Donald Trump through an executive order on April 4. Its main purpose is to review licensing applications and licenses from […]

VANCOUVER—Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou will respond on Jan. 23 to the Canadian prosecutor’s arguments calling for Meng to be extradited to the United States on bank fraud charges. Thursday’s proceedings will wrap up the first phase of the extradition process and legal experts have said it could be years before a […]

Commentary The deadly virus originating out of the central Chinese city of Wuhan is making headlines, and well it should. There’s the potential for this new coronavirus to spread rapidly from China to the rest of Asia and the West. The virus attacks victims’ immune systems, compromising their health and threatening their very existence. At […]

VANCOUVER—Canadian prosecutors are expected to defend on Jan. 22 their case to extradite Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou to the United States saying Meng was arrested on charges of bank fraud, which is a crime in both countries, and not because of U.S. sanctions against Iran as argued by the defense. Meng’s legal team […]

A Republican congressman introduced a bill on Tuesday that would prohibit the United States from sharing intelligence with countries that allow Huawei to operate their 5G networks. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who introduced the bill, said in a statement: “Our allies must choose: Adopt Huawei and lose access to U.S. intelligence, or remain our trusted partner.” Banks called […]

Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou appeared in a Vancouver court for the first day of her extradition trial, which would decide if she can be transferred to the United States for criminal processing. Meng’s trial comes more than a year after she was arrested in Vancouver in December 2018, upon an extradition request by […]

News Analysis Europe’s top telecom analyst Strand Consult issued its twentieth annual forecast that warns: ”Too many have a naïve view of the China debate and have not considered the ramifications of turning over key technologies to the autocratic country.” Copenhagen-based Strand Consult has advised the European telecommunications industry regarding technology innovation, regulatory structures and […]

The revelation that former Quebec premier Jean Charest, who is contemplating running for Conservative Party leadership, is advising Chinese telecom giant Huawei on the Meng Wanzhou extradition case and participation in Canada’s 5G network has reignited calls for Ottawa to require more transparency from former government members working for foreign entities. “A cross-section of people […]

Chinese telecom giant Huawei got a bad rep around the world after information from a former Huawei employee was published online. Another former employee shared his experiences with The Epoch Times on Dec. 5. Jin Chun obtained a master’s degree in computer science in Ireland and worked for Huawei on big data research for three […]

Two people have been reportedly detained by the Chinese authorities for attempting to reveal how Huawei, the country’s military-linked tech giant, skirted U.S. sanctions barring sales of electronic equipment to Iran.  Yang Zhanqing, a co-founder of Chinese NGO Changsha Fengneng, told the Chinese-edition Epoch Times on Dec. 5 that seven former Huawei employees had talked […]

TORONTO—When Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive at the centre of a diplomatic row between China and Canada, visited the Toronto office of the Chinese telecom giant in 2016, the talk from local managers was that she didn’t like seeing so many “Chinese faces” in the office. Meng, whose high-profile arrest in December 2018 started a […]

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Thursday authored a bipartisan letter to President Donald Trump, sharing their concern that the U.S. Department of Commerce has begun issuing export licenses for U.S. companies to commence business with Huawei Technologies, disregarding the considerable risk these license approvals could create for security. The letter stated: “On […]

Five U.S. senators wrote to Microsoft on Oct. 7 concerning the “real and urgent” threats posed by Chinese tech giant Huawei. The letter was in response to Microsoft President Brad Smith, also the U.S. software developer’s chief legal officer, who said in a Bloomberg Businessweek interview that U.S. regulators should provide more evidence to back […]

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 […]

Huawei’s latest smartphone series, the Mate 30, will be the first ones it makes without Google apps installed. Since the Chinese tech giant was sanctioned by the U.S. government in May and prohibited from buying U.S. tech supplies and software, it has lost access to Google’s proprietary products, including the Google-developed Android operating system and […]

A film set for release this fall seeks to shed light on the connection between Huawei Technologies—the world’s largest maker of telecommunications gear—and China’s ruling communist party. The film, titled “Claws of the Red Dragon,” was inspired by the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver International Airport last year at the request of […]