the Ad begins and ends with the words: ”don’t Believe everything you hear”. And is signed by the company’s board member Catherine Chen.
the united states has in recent months been pressing the allies to boycott Huawei, which is the world’s largest companies for the telecoms networks, with reference to their system involve the risk of espionage from China. By extension it means according to the criticism that nations are exposed to security risks.
that the chinese government can order the company to install so-called backdoors and avlyssningsapparatur in the systems. But the u.s. campaign and the debate in the west has forced Huawei on the defensive.
the united states also plans to ask the company’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who is the daughter of the owner, Ren Zhengfei, was put on trial for inter alia, violation of the U.S. sanctions against Iran.
With the unusual full page in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, the chinese techjätten now on the offensive.
”I write to you with the hope that we shall be able to understand each other better. In recent years, the U.S. government cultivated some misunderstanding about us,” says Catherine Chen in the open letter.
She invite the american media to the company to meet their employees. And hope that they will convey a new image.
”We want the american public get to know us better,” she says.
Huawei has recently tried to change the image of their company in the rugbyfrälsta New Zealand. It was done with a full-page adverts in the two newspapers where the message read:
”5 G but Huawei is like rugby but New Zealand”.
Recently made the president of the united states Donald Trump comments that implies that he has taken a less harsh approach to Huawei, without mentioning the company by name. Trump then said that he wants the united states to take the lead in technology through competition and not by blocking others.
What rarely emerges in the debate on the chinese teknikjätten is that the chinese law makes it a duty for every citizen and business to participate in the country’s security. If the state requires it, they must contribute with the knowledge of the foreign power that they have.
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