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Comment by aritmo | Hacker News Reader

Most of the points listed in the article are excuses to attack a successful Chinese company. It looks like the US prefers China to just manufacture for others and not sell directly high tech products.

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"Seattle prosecutors alleged in January 2019 that Huawei employees stole T-Mobile trade secrets in 2012. They said that Huawei pressured its U.S. staff to get details about a smart-phone-testing robot named Tappy and that a Huawei employee removed the robot arm and took it home and photographed it. Huawei denies any role. It says employees acted on their own, in “a moment of indiscretion.”"

That's perfectly believable. I, myself, am compelled to fiddle about with other people's technology.

> The Supercomm telecom trade show was winding down and most people had gone home when Zhu Yibin, a China-based employee of Huawei, was caught by security June 23 photographing the circuit boards of an optical networking device owned by Fujitsu Network Communications after removing the casing, according to a report by Light Reading. Zhu also had two pages of proprietary AT&T diagrams and a list of six vendors to visit, with two high-tech products highlighted.

The CIA did the same with an entire soviet spacecraft.

To me, this sounds like you are essentially agreeing that Huawei is acting like a CPP state arm, in the same way that CIA acts like a state arm.

So you are saying we should assume the same for China and Huawei?

they behavior is not deviating form the standards set by the US.

If Huawei does not deviate from the standards set by the CIA, than it is very clearly a terrible idea to do business with them

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