By Shane Harris and Isaac Stone Fish
Foreign Policy - Monday, December 2, 2013
The CEO of the world's biggest telecommunications equipment maker, which
for years has been labeled by U.S. officials as a proxy for Chinese
military and intelligence agencies, says he's giving up on America.
In a rare interview on
Nov. 25 with French journalists, Ren Zhengfei, the 69-year-old founder
and CEO of China-based Huawei, said he would no longer look for business
in the United States, in the wake of accusations from lawmakers and
government officials that the company is a de facto arm of the Chinese
authorities. "If Huawei gets in the middle of U.S-China relations," and
causes problems, "it's not worth it," Ren reportedly said, according to
a Chinese transcript of the interview. "Therefore, we have decided to exit the U.S. market, and not stay in the middle."
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