This is incredulously ironic coming from a Chinese company. China, who sets up just about every barrier imaginable to foreign companies. Do they also lobby the Chinese government in favor of easing restrictions on those foreign businesses? I'm not saying we should follow their lead or really commenting on the merits at all, but I just find these times to be quite strange & humorous indeed.
edit ref: https://www.ft.com/content/fa8e7ab4-3905-11e9-b856-5404d3811...
That's what makes this issue so interesting. On paper we've fully embraced globalism while China has embraced outward globalism and inward nationalism. In reality the US market is still completely dominated by US companies or by companies from 'friendly' nations. E.g. in smartphones South Korea and USA make up the vast majority of all sales.
But now 'unfriendly' nations are increasingly creating products that are becoming not only competitive but in some cases industry leading. So we find ourselves in the position of countries such as China. Do you allow companies from 'unfriendly' nations to setup and start on what may be a path to dominance, or do you give unfair preference to domestic/'friendly' products? We never had this issue before because final product competition from 'unfriendly' nations was negligible!
And this is before you get into all the intelligence intrigue going on behind the scenes. The NSA has stated they have access to "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information" [1] on the products of 'participating' companies including Google, Apple, Microsoft, and others. Suffice to say companies such as Huawei are less likely to 'participate' in such activities.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
I imagine the USG will envoke national security protections to limit exposure of any information as they have in the past.
I don't really see this case going anywhere, more so with EU countries making similar claims and allegations of their operating practices.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/amp...
https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/07/05/americas-industrial-re...
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/china-stealing-f...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2013-02-01/piracy...
If I am not doing business in China, Russia, Vietnam, or South America the first thing I do in any environment is block those countries and LACNIC. Instantly my production security alerts drop by 2/3 and I get to sleep at night.
As someone whose country isn't part of five eyes, the hypocrisy makes me quietly laugh.
(Edit: updated for less gratuitous accusations)
Help.me.understand...
