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Huawei, the Chinese firm in charge of restricting its countrymens' access to content – and big favourite of David Cameron – has announced it will be opening a £125 million research and development centre in the UK, despite concerns that the company may be too closely linked to the Chinese government to be impartial when it comes to security procedures.
This all comes as part of a unification strategy between the UK and China, spearheaded by chancellor George Osbourne, who has also announced an easing off of visa applications for those coming from China. He was pleased to also welcome investment from Chinese firm, Rekoo, which will become the first firm from the nation to set up shop in London's Tech City.
Gaining dominance in the smartphone game isn't a bad way to get ahead
Huawei is currently the world's second biggest telecom provider and has been part of UK business for some time. However in recent years some concern has been held over its links with the Chinese government and its placement within British telecoms industry. It's been implied that some of its security clearances of hardware could theoretically hide monitoring equipment or loopholes that could be exploited by its government back home.
US politicians have also expressed concerns, but clearly from Osbourne's recent actions and Cameron's praising of the company's restrictive filtering system, this cooperation isn't going to end any time soon.
KitGuru Says: That's some big money being thrown around, so it's understandable why politicians would like it, but Huawei's supposed ties with the Chinese military are a little worrying.
[Thanks Wired]
“Maybe we’ll soon see a Huawei smartphone in the UK?”
The Ascend P1 has been on sale here already… Unless I’m mistaken?
Maybe a pure report rather than a political bashing piece would have been more appropriate!
>“Maybe we’ll soon see a Huawei smartphone in the UK?”
>”The Ascend P1 has been on sale here already… Unless I’m mistaken?”
You’re not mistaken. Lots of Huawei phones have – checking the carphone warehouse shows the Ascend P6, Y300, G510 and P1 as currently for sale. If you count in the likes of Amazon you can also get the Ascend G300, Mate, G520, G7105, W1, U8350, Y100, U8510, U8850. Other models have previously been on sale but have now been discontinued.
This article has more inaccuracies than a press release from FACT or an article from the daily mail:
>It’s been implied that some of its security clearances of hardware could theoretically hide monitoring equipment or loopholes that could be exploited by its government back home.
Of course the US and the UK would never do such a thing, it’s not like the USA and UK have secret spy programs (ever heard of Prism, Temporta? You wrote about it seven articles before this one and many times before that). Despite their claims the USA hasn’t been able the conclusively prove any spying by Huawei. At least for Huawei the claims are only implied. The USA hasn’t been able the prove anything.
>US politicians have also expressed concerns
That’s the most hypocritical thing I’ve ever heard. First the go and spy on everyone, then complain they’re worried someone might be spying on them. Before the complain about other countries they should sort their own mess out.