Huawei insists there are no backdoors in its technology that could allow China to spy on other countries
Visitors interact with a Huawei Mate X presentation at the Mobile World Congress
This is the technology that will allow doctors to perform surgery from thousands of miles away, in real time. . She was arrested as she changed planes in Canada at the request of US authorities, before being released on bail and is now awaiting extradition proceedings. "What is our own intelligence service's assessment and have there been any security breaches in Ireland on the back of Huawei technology?" he wrote.
According to comments made by Carolan Lennon earlier this month, the CEO of Ireland’s largest telecommunications company Eir - which has confirmed it is sticking with Huawei's radio access equipment in its 5G rollout - "around 48% of telcos in Europe have Huawei as a partner." Speaking in Hungary, Mr Pompeo said that if countries use Huawei equipment, "it makes it more difficult for us to partner alongside them.""If a country adopts and puts it in some of their critical information systems, we won’t be able to share information with them, we won’t be able to work alongside them," he said.The sales director for Huawei in Poland was arrested on suspected spying charges last month.
"The US has been fabricating various unwarranted charges and cooking up all sorts of threat theories without any firm evidence," said Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry at a press conference in Beijing. Swapping Huawei’s technology out would be expensive and there is some concern that it could significantly delay the country’s 5G development.
"Assuming there were a situation in which the government tried to compel Huawei to engage in intelligence-gathering and Huawei refused, we would be concerned." said William Nee, China researcher at Amnesty International. Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor are being held without charge or legal access in what some analysts have called a "tit-for-tat" operation - a suggestion refuted by the Chinese government."There is no doubt that the US, China, and many other countries, engage in espionage," said Steve Conlon, a former PhD and assistant lecturer at Dublin City University, now Vice President Corporate Intelligence at the US firm, Rivada Networks.
"We must ask which in the long term will be more expensive?" Mr Conlon added about removing Huawei from the 5G network. "A risk mitigation rip-and-replace program or a devastating cyberattack?" he said."I have grave concerns that DCU may be unwillingly creating technologies that allow the Chinese government to subjugate political enemies through various smart and safe cities initiatives," he wrote.
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