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In a preview video of CBS CBS +1.36% News's 60 Minutes and a release on the broadcaster's website, Mike Rogers, chairman of the U.S. House intelligence committee that has been probing Huawei, said: "If I were an American company today…and you are looking at Huawei, I would find another vendor if you care about your intellectual property, if you care about your consumers' privacy, and you care about the national security of the United States of America."
The comment from Mr. Rogers, a Michigan Republican, comes as the committee is about to reach a conclusion after a yearlong probe of Huawei and another Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier, ZTE Corp. 0763.HK +5.18% The investigation over whether the Chinese companies' equipment could be used to spy on the U.S. is part of a broader debate among U.S. lawmakers about how to respond to China's growing presence in global politics and business.
The newspaper said its report on the operation, code-named "Shotgiant," was based on NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden, the former agency contractor who since last year has leaked data revealing sweeping U.S. surveillance activities. The German magazine Der Spiegel also reported on the documents. One of the goals of the operation was to find any connections between Huawei and the Chinese People's Liberation Army, according to a 2010 document cited by the Times.
But the newspaper said the operation also sought to exploit Huawei's technology. It reported that the NSA aimed to conduct surveillance through computer and telephone networks Huawei sold to other nations. If ordered by the U.S. president, the NSA also planned to unleash offensive cyber operations, it said. The newspaper said the NSA secured access to the servers in Huawei's sealed headquarters in the city of Shenzhen and got information about the workings of the giant routers and complex digital switches the company says connect a third of the world's people. The NSA also tracked communications of Huawei's top executives, the Times reported.
Der Spiegel reported that the NSA breached Huawei's computer network and copied a list of more than 1,400 clients and internal training documents for engineers. "We have access to so much data that we don't know what to do with it," the magazine cited an NSA document as saying. The magazine said the NSA also is pursuing a digital offensive against the Chinese political leadership. It named the government targets as former Chinese prime minister Hu Jintao and the Chinese trade and foreign ministries.
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Chinese technology behemoth Huawei is being investigated by the U.S. Commerce Department because of its connection to transactions in North Korea, Iran and Cuba. The probe follows a recent announcement from the U.S. Treasury that North Korea is a "primary money-laundering concern." The law bans countries from processing North Korea-related banking transactions. The U.S. subpoena delivered to Huawei requested information about the corporation's exports to North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan, according to The New York Times.
The U.S. government is requesting five years of information on Huawei exports, including cargo sent to the countries through third-party firms. Huawei, which sells $60 billion annually in telecom equipment, did not address the subpoena but issued the following statement: "Huawei is committed to complying with the applicable laws and regulations in the markets where Huawei operates and export control measures promulgated by the international community." In China, the U.S. announcement drew strong reactions.
One Chinese state media outlet criticized the United States' past labeling of Chinese firms as a "national security threat" and called such moves examples of a "hostile attitude." In 2012, the U.S. House Intelligence Committee called Huawei a security threat and the company is still banned from signing major U.S. telecom deals, Fortune reported. Huawei retains six research centers in the United States and its U.S. branch is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company is also heavily interdependent on U.S. suppliers, and if found in violation of U.S. sanctions, companies like Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Oracle could be restricted from business with Huawei.
The U.S. Treasury's sanctions announced Wednesday are to be implemented globally, and on Friday Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew met with his South Korean counterpart Yoo Il-ho in Seoul to discuss policy coordination on the financial sanctions. "We've agreed that there is no different view on North Korea issues [between Seoul and Washington]," Yoo said, according to Yonhap.
Chinese tech giant Huawei under U.S. investigation for North Korea ties
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The chinese are a pain in the buttocks for things like this. I have a messenger style application in my computer that is the one many people have been using in China for the last 10 years or so, and you know there are things on there that the govt can use.
However it's losing popularity in favor of other applications that prevent the govt from being able to check up on you.
There are about 2 million or so people who check blogs within China, external blogs are blocked. They like to control everything and they're not particularly worried who cares.
I would say the US should keep away from a lot of Chinese electronics products, however even the US govt must be getting in on the act.
