Mud slung at Huawei sticks to Washington: China Daily editorial
China Daily | Updated: 2019-01-29 22:42
At a news conference, acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said that two affiliates of Huawei had been indicted on 10 federal crimes related to accusations that Huawei stole technology from T-Mobile, and that Huawei, its chief financial officer, an affiliate in Iran and one of its subsidiaries in the US had been indicted on 13 charges related to allegations that Huawei committed financial fraud by violating US sanctions against doing business with Iran.
That these charges are politically motivated should be evident from the extrajudicial nature of the sanctions-busting accusation — which reveals more about the ingrained US hostility toward Iran — and the fact the T-Mobile technology in question, robotic technology that tests the durability of smartphones, was proudly being displayed on YouTube before the Huawei employees allegedly stole it.
The fact that Apple, Facebook and Uber, among others, have been accused of stealing trade secrets, as well as a steady stream of cases where people leave a company with its know-how and sell that knowledge to competitors, shows how cut and thrust the technology competition is.
Yet over the years, even though the US has developed a penchant for accusing Chinese companies of stealing trade secrets and being a threat to national security, on no occasion has it provided any solid evidence.
Last October, Bloomberg claimed China was putting spy chips in the hardware of US companies. The companies cited denied that possibility. And no matter how strong one's allegiance to the Stars and Stripes may be, so far the only country that has been caught resorting to such nefarious practices is, you guessed it, the US.
Such unwarranted accusations reveal the truth often demonstrated, that the US, being in possession of a big fortune, believes other countries are beneath it. China is at the crucial stage of its transformation from being a large country to becoming a strong one, and this success, as embodied by companies such as Huawei, has invited detraction.
Washington should be told a lie will not become truth even if it is repeated 1,000 times, or more.
The latest US decision, together with its pending request to Canada for the extradition of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, shows the US is determined to take a hard line on the Huawei case, but this will not deter either China or Huawei from pursuing the heights of the 21st century.
