The Chinese network equipment and mobile phone manufacturer Huawei know for a fact that in international competition, trust is important. Now Huawei is in the Offensive and fight for a better Reputation.
Ren Zhengfei has recognized the signs of the time: “Whether our customers want to buy our products or car, depends on whether you trust them or not,” was the chief and founder of Huawei, its workforce is now in an E-Mail to know. “Therefore, it is important to gain the acceptance and trust of governments in the world.”
The reliability offensive by the Chinese, on Tuesday (22.01.2019) German journalists were allowed to visit the Cyber security lab of Huawei in Dongguan in South China. The message of this PR-action was, apparently: We really care about security and let us look over the shoulder!
Whether the words of Huawei’s new Germany chief Dennis Zuo were also confidence-building? “Huawei products are just like a brick,” he said at the press conference, the German journalists. “It will be built according to certain Standards. It does not say that the security of the house of this tile depends on the stone.”
Global Distrust
The group Shengzen still has a lot of work in front of the chest, because with verquasten images such as these, he will not gain confidence. Internationally, the Chinese have a terrible reputation: they are suspected to maintain very close contacts with the government and the intelligence services and to be a tool of espionage and economic espionage.
The U.S. excluded Huawei, therefore, been largely from your network market. This of course could be also due to the protectionist economic policy and the “America first”policy of its President, Donald J. Trump. But the public also in the USA, always a criticism of the trustworthiness of the Chinese group is expressed – for Huawei this is extremely defamatory.
Also, at the world economic forum in Davos, Huawei is present Here with the Board Ken Hu.
Also in Australia, new Zealand, the UK and Norway Huawei, the network market is either already closed or the respective governments are thinking about such a step. Also in Germany, where in the spring of the licenses for the 5G network expansion will be awarded, will be discussed the reliability of the Chinese group is now controversial – a market to the exclusion of Huawei is quite possible.
Also, the EU-Commission is alarmed
Not only in Berlin, also in Brussels, is sceptical, looking at the offers from Shenzhen. The fear to go, depending on the rulers in Beijing, is large.
Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the EU Commission and as a Commissioner for digitalization in charge, says that this risk is more likely to increase. Therefore, should be given to “our Cyber-safety is an absolute Top priority,” he told DW. “We need to create a wide selection of tools to be able to present and future Cyber-threats.”
Huawei belongs to in addition to Cisco from the United States and the European equipment suppliers Nokia and Ericsson to the Big players in the market.
The Bonn-Based Security Laboratory
In Germany, the BSI – the Federal office for security in information technology is primarily responsible. In the current case, the procurement of the network upgrade for the 5G Standard, the BSI has the ability to ensure, through sharp formulation of the conditions for a supplier to install electronic backdoors in the System, which would allow the access of foreign secret services.
As a confidence-building measure, Huawei has opened in Bonn a safety laboratory, in which the BSI and the German network operators can test with the help of the secret source code to the safety of the products themselves. In Germany, Huawei cooperates with all three mobile operators.
Although the problem of security with Huawei has been recognized in Brussels, remains the solution, as EU Commissioner Ansip, is a national matter: “It is a matter for the EU to decide for member States whether they do not exclude companies from their markets, if they meet your Standards and security requirements.”
“A political matter”
Safety labs in China and outside, full-sounding promises and flowery metaphors – all of that is for Huawei if it wants to Polish up his battered reputation. Even if, as before, the Germany-chief of the current Huawei CEO Eric Xu says that the alleged Cyber-security issues are technically solvable. Why that’s not enough, he explains – perhaps unintentionally – also: “that’s Why we can only say that it is a political matter.”
Millions of German phone calls, texting and taking photos with Huawei Smartphones. To think without to spying.
Because it is, in fact, actually a political matter, and Huawei comes from a country where values such as transparency and the rule of law in the Western sense are unknown, can be a company, hardly independent, and independently. All Attempts to claim the opposite, and therefore have to run into the Void.
Never trust promotional
As well as politically, the relationship with a major Chinese group is, shows an example of the case, Meng Wanzhou. The daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei and chief financial officer of the group, had been arrested in Canada. The USA accuse her to have the Iran sanctions bypassed, and request their extradition.
Apparently in response to it were taken in China two Canadians . In the case of another man who gets arrested for drug smuggling in a Chinese jail, has converted his sentence subsequently in a death penalty.
Such reactions on the part of Chinese institutions to show that Huawei is not a state-independent company. The fixing Meng Wanzhous in Canada and the subsequent conversion of imprisonment to a death penalty have to do for a canadian to can you believe – not but they should.