Huawei and the mounting costs of his inconsistencies
Feb 23, 2019, 08:19am
Phil Levy
... this week’s developments in the China negotiations show how problematic such an approach is when applied to international diplomacy. In particular, President Trump seemed to suggest late in the week that he might take a softer line towards the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei ...
... the President’s offers .. fly in the face of the rest of U.S. diplomacy and risk imposing serious costs on the United States internationally ...
In 2010, President Obama’s Commerce Secretary warned Sprint about national security risks if it did business with Huawei – and Sprint took its business elsewhere. In 2012, the U.S. House Intelligence Committee found that Huawei was a national security threat because of its attempts to extract sensitive information from American companies and its links to the Chinese government. Then, in December 2018, Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer, whom the United States has accused of violating U.S. sanctions on Iran. The United States is currently seeking her extradition ...
... Earlier this very week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened that the United States would neither partner nor share information with countries that adopt Huawei technology ...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phillevy/2019/02/23/huawei-and-the-mounting-costs-of-trumps-inconsistencies/#3f93d0f618b8
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