Is Huawei a real security risk or part of a trade war? "Hard to say because there is no evidence of spying"
Happened so far: A Chinese Huawei leader has been arrested on the request of the USA.
China threatens with serious consequences. Do we need to worry about Huawei′s security?
The Chinese Huawei produces network devices and smartphones. Huawei′s CFO was arrested in Canada last week on the request of the USA. It is announced that the reason for this is that the CFO has somehow broken the Iran sanctions which USA has set.
As a countermove China invited the ambassador of the USA for an address. Now China threatens also Canada which executed the arrest with serious consequences.
At the same time USA and China are in a severe trade war originally started as initiative of the president of the USA, Donald Trump.
How Huawei relates to world politics?
The accusations against Huawei have increased during this autumn: it is claimed that Huawei′s devices and software enable China′s espionage in Western countries. USA has blocked Huawei′s networks and devices to its markets already years ago. Australia and New Zealand have forbidden Huawei to build 5G networks to their countries.
According to recently published articles USA has prevailed lately also Germany, Italy and Japan to block Huawei′s new generation technology for security reasons. The Great Britain obligates Huawei to make technical changes worth of billions of euros to Huawei′s devices because Britain′s authorities have noticed security weaknesses in Huawei′s devices.
Huawei has denied accusations concerning empowerment of espionage. Chinese authorities have wished that the countries which consider boycott would offer a fair competition environment also for Chinese companies.
How Huawei threatens American business?
Huawei operates in most of the countries in the world. As a smartphone network provider it is the market leader in the world ahead of Nokia and Ericsson.
Huawei took over Apple′s second position in smartphone sales just recently. There are three Chinese brands among TOP 5 most selling smart phone brands in the world. Huawei′s models have top positions also in Finland.
The boycott actions led by the USA may at least slow down Huawei′s plans to be the market leader also in new generation′s 5G technology.
Do Huawei's devices be used to spy?
Certainly Huawei has contacts with the Chinese government. But so is Ericsson with the Swedish Government and Nokia in the Finnish government, says Mikko Hyppönen , F-Secure's research director of information security . No concrete cooperation has been demonstrated.
For the United States, it is in Hyppönen's view, at least in terms of trade and trade policy. Sikälä's state leadership is scared by the rise of China.
The American Empire has been spent for a hundred years, and now it's time to strongly show that the next Chinese empire will rise. Your opponent can fight and the rise of the empire can slow down.
In the hypocrite, it is desirable that in the United States, virtually none of the most popular Huawei phones in the world are sold.
Huawe's routers and cell phones have found holes [security failures] just like Apple's horn has been found. Who can say whether Huawei's system was intentionally or accidentally holes in the system, Hyppönen asks.