BRUSSELS - In one
of the strongest public remarks ever, a senior representative of China's tech
company Huawei on Thursday night flayed fear-mongering targeting the company.
Huawei's envoy to European Union institutions Abraham Liu delivered a robust defense of the Chinese technology giant in Brussels, asserting that cyber security should remain a technical issue, and not an ideological one
In a ballroom in Brussels packed with well over 100 guests, mostly
Europeans, Huawei's envoy to the European Union institutions launched into a
robust defense of the Chinese technology giant.
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"Recently, Huawei has
been under constant attack by some countries and politicians. We are shocked, or
sometimes feel amused, by those ungrounded and senseless allegations," said
Abraham Liu, Huawei's vice president for the European region and chief
representative to the EU institutions.
"For example, yesterday, the
US ambassador to the European Union, Mr (Gordon) Sondland, said (that)
someone in Beijing (could) remotely run a certain car off the road on 5G network
and kill the person that's in it. This is an insult to people's intelligence,
let alone the technological experts across the world," Liu said.
"Excluding Huawei from the market doesn't mean the network is safe. For example,
since Huawei's equipment is not used in the US networks, is the US having
the most secure network? The answer is no," Liu said.
The company has
an excellent cyber security record, Liu said, with its devices being approved by
strict reviews by multiple regulators and operators.
Huawei's partners
in Europe include big-name telecoms operators such as Deutsche Telekom, British
Telecom, Vodafone, Orange, Proximus and others.
These partners "have
publicly endorsed their trust in Huawei. I applaud these sensible approaches,"
Liu said.
"Cyber security should remain a technical issue, instead of
an ideological issue. Because technical issues can always be resolved through
the right solutions, while an ideological issue can not," he said.
Certain Western governments and media outlets have consistently cast doubt over
Huawei's ownership and governance. Liu made it crystal clear that "Huawei is a
100 percent employee-owned private enterprise," adding that "if we want to
pursue our commercial success, we must follow our own business ethics. We have
never harmed the interests of any customer or nation."
Huawei has more
than 12,000 employees in Europe, over 70 percent of whom are hired locally, Liu
said. In 2018, the company procured goods and services worth US$6.3 billion from Europe.
"For Huawei, Europe has become our second home,"
he said, adding that "our success is Europe's success. Our loss would be
Europe's loss."
"We are always willing to accept the supervision and
suggestions of all European governments, customers and partners. Although Huawei
has never had any serious cyber security incidents in the past, there is still
room for improvement with our software engineering capabilities for example,"
Liu said.
Huawei hopes to demonstrate a more transparent way that "we are part of the solution, not part of the problem"
Huawei has put forward an enhancement program to strengthen
software engineering which will allocate US$2 billion within the five
coming years. In addition, the company will open a cyber security center in
Brussels next month.
Huawei hopes to demonstrate a more transparent way
that "we are part of the solution, not part of the problem," Liu said.
"In the past 18 years, Huawei has been bringing the latest technologies,
investment, research and development, partnership as well as healthy competition
to Europe," he said.
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"There is a famous saying that 'I never knew an
early-rising, hardworking, prudent, and strictly honest man who complained of
bad luck.' In Huawei, we believe the same. Complaints will not solve the issue.
By working closely with our European partners, we are creating a better future
for all of us," Liu said at the end of his speech, to a round of applause from
the audience.
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