‘Huawei is a spy agency of the Chinese Communist Party’: Expert says Beijing’s three ‘revenge hostages’ for arrest of tech ‘princess’ prove that smartphone maker is part of China’s plan to dominate the 21st Century
China expert Steven W. Mosher published a column on Saturday
Argues that Chinese tech firm Huawei is part of Communist spy apparatus
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada earlier this month
She faces extradition the the US on charges of bank fraud and sanction violaton
China has furiously retaliated by detaining three Canadians on vague charges
By KEITH GRIFFITH
DAILYMAIL.COM
23 December 2018
Beijing’s furious response to the arrest of a tech ‘princess’ who is a top executive at Huawei reveals that the company is part and parcel of China’s spying apparatus, an expert has argued.
‘Huawei is much more than an innocent manufacturer of smartphones. It is a spy agency of the Chinese Communist Party,’ wrote China expert Steven W. Mosher in a column on Saturday for the New York Post.
Mosher points out that since the December 1 arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Canada, where she faces extradition to the U.S. on bank fraud and international sanction violation charges, China has rounded up at least three Canadian ‘revenge hostages’.
‘Beijing hints that the hostage count may grow if Meng is not freed and fast,’ writes Mosher. ‘Even for a thuggish regime like China’s, this kind of action is almost unprecedented.’
Mosher, the author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order, says the dramatic response adds to evidence that Huawei, the second largest smartphone maker in the world after Samsung, is no simple private competitor to other tech firms around the world.
Huawei has been nourished by China’s ruling Communist Party and military through low-interest loans and protected access to the domestic market, Mosher writes.
China has also repeatedly declared that all Chinese companies, private or not, must assist the government with gathering intelligence.
Under Chinese law, ‘all organizations and citizens… must support, assist with, and collaborate in national intelligence work, and guard the national intelligence work secrets they are privy to.’
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