Ren Zhengfei, Huawei’s founder and president, reckons the world wants his firm’s ‘extra superior’ know-how.
The saga of the Chinese language telecom has led the US to strain its worldwide allies to drop Huawei from their 5G rollouts, however Ren told the BBC on Monday that this tactic will not work.
‘There is no means the US can crush us,’ he stated in a uncommon interview. ‘The world can’t go away us as a result of we’re extra superior. Even when they persuade extra international locations to not use us briefly, we will all the time scale issues down a bit.’
He famous that the Huawei has loads of choices for increasing its enterprise.
‘If the lights exit within the West, the East will nonetheless shine,’ he stated. ‘And if the North goes darkish, there may be nonetheless the South. America would not signify the world. America solely represents a portion of the world.’
The founder addressed the December arrest in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, his daughter and Huawei’s chief monetary officer. He referred to as the arrest a ‘politically motivated act’ that he objects to. Nevertheless, he desires to let the courtroom system iron issues out.
Ren additionally strongly denied that his firm spies on China’s behalf — the primary purpose why Huawei networking gear has been banned within the US since 2012.
‘Our firm won’t ever undertake any spying actions,’ he stated. ‘If we’ve any such actions, then I will shut the corporate down.’
He strengthened this level in a separate CBS Information interview that may air Wednesday — an excerpt was released Tuesday. Within the interview, he was requested whether or not Huawei’s merchandise might have a backdoor that shares buyer information with China with out his data.
‘It isn’t attainable. As a result of throughout our complete group, we have burdened as soon as and once more that we are going to by no means try this. If we did have that, with America’s superior know-how, they might discovered that already,’ he instructed CBS Information.
Within the BBC interview, Ren promised Huawei would ‘proceed to spend money on the UK,’ which reportedly went in opposition to the US in concluding that utilizing the corporate’s gear in its 5G networks is a manageable danger.
‘If the US would not belief us, then we are going to shift our funding from the US to the UK on a good greater scale,’ he stated.
Ren seldom speaks to overseas media, however he is already carried out so a number of instances in 2019. In January, he praised President Donald Trump and stated that Huawei is ‘solely a sesame seed’ within the China’s commerce conflict with the US.
