Huawei CTO insists: 'We are not a threat to UK and US national security'

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/13/huawei_sanqi_li_says_no_national_security_threat/

By Kelly Fiveash
The Register
13th September 2013

Exclusive A top Huawei exec has dismissed claims that his company poses a 
threat to British and US national security - despite Western government 
officials' fears over Huawei's alleged connections to the Chinese 
Communist Party.

Professor Sanqi Li - speaking in an exclusive interview with The Register 
at the multinational's R&D centre in Stockholm, Sweden - repeatedly 
attempted to paint a picture of a benign company that simply deals with 
"packet in, packet out".

When pressed about Parliament's concerns that Huawei may have too much 
control over Blighty's critical infrastructure and communications systems 
- based on claims that the company's chairman (and erstwhile member of the 
People's Liberation Army) Ren Zhengfei was helping Chinese authorities to 
spy on the Western world - Li said: "No, we are not a threat".

He added: "There's no substance, just more speculation."

Li, the company's Carrier Business Group CTO, said Huawei, which provides 
equipment to Britain's one-time national telco BT, was an easy target 
because it is a Chinese company that operates in the Western world. But he 
insisted fears of compromised national security presented an industry-wide 
problem for all tech outfits.

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