Category: Huawei

Five Chinese Companies Pose Threat to US National Security: FCC

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday designated five Chinese companies as posing a threat to national security under a 2019 law aimed at protecting U.S. communications networks. The FCC said the companies included Huawei Technologies Co, ZTE Corp, Hytera Communications Corp, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co and Dahua Technology Co. A 2019 law requires…


Trudeau Rejects Chinese Ambassador’s Claim That Detention of ‘Two Michaels’ Unconnected to Meng’s Arrest

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has strongly refuted a claim by China’s ambassador to Canada that “there’s no connection” between the detention of two Canadian citizens in China and Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. “It is obvious that the two Michaels were arrested on trumped-up national security charges days after we fulfilled our extradition…


Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou Back in Canadian Court as US Extradition Case Proceeds

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Lawyers for a senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies were in court Monday arguing evidence should be introduced that they claim undermines the case to have their client extradited to the United States. But a Canadian government lawyer representing the United States in the extradition case has said that the evidence…


Italy the Beachhead for CCP’s Invasion of Europe

Churchill called Italy, the “soft underbelly” of Europe, meaning the invasion of the continent in World War II should be done there first by the Allied forces. Italy has also received other titles, such as the “Sick Man of Europe”. This title has been passed among several countries, but Italy has been a common recipient…


Huawei Loses UK Court Bid to Access HSBC Files on Iran Fraud Case

Britain’s high court on Friday blocked Chinese telecom giant Huawei’s bid to access British bank HSBC’s internal documents relating to U.S. fraud allegations against its chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou. Meng, 49, was arrested by Canadian police on a U.S. warrant in December 2018 while on a layover in Vancouver, bound for Mexico. The United…


Ottawa Pressed to Ban Huawei From Canada’s 5G Networks

More than two years after Stanford University shelved its partnership with Huawei over U.S national security concerns and others like Princeton and MIT followed suit, Canada’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) continues to fund university research collaborations with the Chinese tech giant.  This issue, as well as whether Ottawa will finally decide to…


Canada’s Never-Ending China Blunders

Commentary U.S. President Joe Biden will hold a virtual meeting with leaders of the G7 on Feb. 19 to discuss such pressing matters as the economy, the response to the pandemic, and a wildly bellicose China. Particularly as it relates to the last of these issues, the meeting could provide a glimpse into what might…


It’s Long Past Time to Cancel Ties With Huawei

Commentary One’s first reaction is stupefaction. This has to be a joke, right? It is not. The Globe and Mail reports that the federal government is partnering with Huawei—yes, that Huawei—to “sponsor leading computer and electrical engineering research at Canadian universities.” Of course, this threatens our national security and economic interests, but the pipeline to…


Huawei Canada VP Claims Meng Wanzhou Innocent, Refuses to Condemn China’s Detention of ‘Two Michaels’

Huawei Canada’s senior official insisted the company’s CFO Meng Wanzhou has “done nothing wrong,” and refused to condemn China’s arbitrary detention of Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. Morgan Elliott, Huawei Canada’s vice president of government affairs, repeated the claim of Meng’s innocence, while dodging questions on whether the company views her arrest to be morally equivalent to China’s…


Canada’s New Warships Fade Evermore Into the Future

Commentary Canada is ready aye ready for naval combat. In 2033. And for carving the pork starting yesterday. So says DND, our sad acronym for a Department of Defence that doesn’t have a cool polygonal HQ. Or much of anything else. Like sidearms. Or ships. Or soldiers. Or even diversity; recently DND tweeted a photo…