In the U.S., there are a handful of industries that top DHS’ list of “critical infrastructure” companies, and top among those are energy and electrical corporations and utilities. They are already earmarked for extra attention from intelligence officials, regulators and legislators through this designation.
Huawei has strongly denied these claims, with CEO Ren Zhengfei saying last week the company did not create so-called “backdoors” that would allow access to China’s intelligence services.
“Absolutely not possible. And also, we never participate in espionage and we do not allow any of our employees to do any act like that. And we absolutely never install backdoors. Even if we were required by Chinese law, we would firmly reject that,” Ren told CBS News.
Ren’s daughter, Meng Wanzhou, was arrested in Vancouver in December on fraud charges involving alleged violations of Iran sanctions. The U.S. is seeking to extradite Meng, a request that will be heard in an Ottawa court in March.
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