Malice towards the US..REALLY?

US: China bears malice towards us

February 21, 2011 picture shows a general view of the head office of Chinese telecom giant Huawei in the city of Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province.

Mon Oct 8, 2012 6:34AM GMT

 

 

A draft of a report by the US House Intelligence Committee says China bears malice towards the United States, accusing Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE of posing a threat to the US national security.

"China has the means, opportunity, and motive to use telecommunications companies for malicious purposes," said the draft, AFP reported on Sunday.

"Based on available classified and unclassified information, Huawei and ZTE cannot be trusted to be free of foreign state influence and thus pose a security threat to the United States and to our systems," it said.

Huawei vice president William Plummer said in an emailed statement, "The integrity and independence of Huawei's organization and business practices are trusted and respected across almost 150 markets."

Trying to substantiate its claim, the committee said it had obtained, what it called were, internal Huawei documents which showed the firm provides "special network services to an entity the employee believes to be an elite cyber-warfare unit" in the Chinese military.

The Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company has been forced away from several investments in the US amid pressure from Washington.