After the arrest of Finance Director of technology group, Huawei, Meng Wanzhou, the sound will be between the West and China is rough. In Japan and the EU-Commission to think clearly about the consequences.
After the arrest of the Huawei Manager in Canada, the fronts between the West and the people’s Republic of harden. Insiders was the capture of the chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in connection with the US investigation, because there is the suspicion that Huawei was made with the help of the major Bank HSBC transactions violating Iran sanctions. Against this representation of Chinese state media were on Friday vehemently and ordered the counter-attack: It was “without a doubt, true and proven” that the US tried everything to Huawei’s Expansion to contain in the world, wrote the English-language “China Daily”.
Huawei, with its 180,000 employees, the world’s largest network equipment supplier and the second largest producer of Smartphones. The rise and Expansion of the business abroad in the past years, was rapidly growing. However, the ownership structure is opaque, and Western intelligence agencies have expressed safety concerns. They fear interference by the government in Beijing, espionage, and disruption of the national networks. In the US, Huawei is excluded so long from authorities contracts.
Meng Wanzhou extradition to the United States threatens
Japan also thinks about Huawei-exclusion
According to insiders, also Japan now plans to of the government the purchase of Huawei equipment. Australia and new Zealand have excluded Huawei from the construction of the new 5G network. Also in Germany, there are Considerations as to how you can best against cyber attacks to protect. Huawei has rejected the allegations and safety concerns. After the arrest of the Finance Director, who is also the daughter of the company founder, said the group, in addition, to comply with all export controls and sanctions.
Meng had been set at last weekend’s festival – almost in time for the G20 summit in Argentina. There, U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart had agreed at the Xi Jinping, a 90-day truce in the trade dispute. Worries, this might well be obsolete, led on Thursday to a veritable selling spree in the stock markets around the world. On Friday, the markets stabilised again. Fears of a worsening of the trade dispute on hold. “Hard to imagine that this development contributes to a de-escalation in the tariff dispute between the U.S. and China,” said Analyst Gregory Kuhn from Emden Research.
Two US officials stressed by now, Trump should have known of the arrest Wengs nothing. The canadian government, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has no influence on the decision to arrest the Manager. His government had been informed by the authorities a few days in advance. Closer to did not want to comment on Trudeau.
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More speculation about the allegations against Meng
Meng have to expect after their arrest in Canada, extradition to the United States. The Details of the Case are still largely unclear. The canadian Ministry of justice would not comment further. Meng has in turn obtained that the media can only report limited on the submitted court documents. A spokesman for the Chinese foreign Ministry said, neither Canada nor the US had supplied to China, evidence that they had violated the laws in the two countries. He repeated the call, Meng to release immediately. But apparently, Huawei does not expect, has been appointed Chairman Liang Hua to be her interim successor.
Huawei, a company with an annual turnover of 93 billion dollars, almost as much as Google is in the sights of the authorities. The United States to determine at least 2016, if the company used the global banking system to avoid against Iran imposed US sanctions. In essence, it is in the USA, produced Goods that were shipped to the Islamic Republic. Company it is forbidden to use the US banking system. HSBC would not comment on the allegations. According to insiders, is not determined against the British Bank, which is in Asia, very present.
A rethink in the EU?
Europe should do according to the assessment of the EU’s digital Commissioner Andrus Ansip is due to the business practices of Huawei and other Chinese companies. China’s companies have to work together with the state intelligence services of their country, said Ansip on Friday in Brussels. Of the company-designed Chips could then be used “to get our secrets”. In the particular case was not, however, still much is known, said Ansip. An EU Commission spokeswoman said, to outer individual cases, the authority.
tko/ul (dpa, rtr)