Show us the proof
Key to Hu’s defense is the fact that, despite numerous statements by US agencies and government officials, there exists no public proof of those claims: “If you have proof and evidence, it should be made public, maybe not to the general public, not to Huawei. But at the very least, it should be made known to telecom operators, because it’s telecom operators who are going to buy from Huawei.
“So the question I want to ask is for a company with a $100 billion in revenue, with businesses in 170 countries, with the fact that we’ve provided leading products to most telecom operators around the world, we serve hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, we also serve hundreds of millions of consumers around the world – you say Huawei is a cybersecurity risk without any proof. On what grounds?”
Indeed, Hu is not alone in making this observation. Last week, president of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Arne Schönbohm, told Der Spiegel that there is “currently no reliable evidence” of Huawei posing a risk.
While no evidence has been provided, perhaps the closest the intelligence officials have ever come to accusing Huawei of a specific security…
