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Americans in the Intelligence Community like to play dumb - in their
ideal world everyone would assume they were so colossally stupid
that any success they might be having was sheer beginners luck. This
is why the executive management of Huawei assumes that if they buy
off a few Brits here and there, and trot out a few white people to
say nice things, that the Americans will believe it. <br>
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From the WP: <br>
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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Reached for
comment, Huawei vice president for external affairs William
Plummer said: “We have been challenged for years now to prove a
negative about ourselves when, frankly, if there is truth to what
is said, they already know the company is innocent and
independent.”</span><br>
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To quote the <a
href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304157204579472272020749640?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304157204579472272020749640.html">WSJ</a>:<br>
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initial;">On Monday, Mr. Xu again rejected allegations by U.S.
lawmakers that the Chinese government could use Huawei's gear for
spying on other countries. "As a business organization, no one
would be so unwise to do such a thing," he said.</p>
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From <a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/tag/william-plummer/">CNN</a>:<br>
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float: none;">This past March, just after regulators forced<span
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initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Huawei to unravel
its 3Leaf acquisition</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
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255); display: inline !important; float: none;">, Plummer met with
a half-dozen stern-faced members of a congressional committee
focused on national security. Recounting the episode, Plummer gets
visibly agitated as he recalls how the staffers suggested that
Huawei was beholden to the wishes of Beijing. "Well, no," Plummer
says he told them, emphasizing that Huawei is not a state-owned
enterprise. "This year GE sold 150 locomotives to Pakistan.
Following that logic, if the U.S. went to war with Pakistan, then
GE would derail the trains? That's just silliness. That's not how
a multinational company would want to risk its future."</span><br>
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But that's just how Huawei has risked its future, and it's not the
only company to do so. Not only that, but all the government
customers of Huawei have to assume they got a little NSA-inside
sticker on their router package. How cool is that? <br>
<br>
Do you think William Plummer ever feels like he made a bad life
decision working as Huawei's patsy?<br>
<br>
-dave<br>
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