{"id":5844,"date":"2018-12-28T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T12:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/huawei-china-accuses-uk-of-pride-and-prejudice\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T12:50:32","slug":"huawei-china-accuses-uk-of-pride-and-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/huawei-china-accuses-uk-of-pride-and-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei: China accuses UK of &#8216;pride and prejudice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Huawei\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/16D57\/production\/_104972539_ce905a1e-8643-49df-8a95-702cf3f14356.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">China has accused the UK of &#8220;deep-rooted pride and prejudice&#8221; over security fears raised about Huawei.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese company&#8217;s chairman has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huawei.com\/en\/press-events\/special-release\/new-year-message-2019?ic_medium=hwdc&amp;ic_source=corp_box2_guoping-newyearspeech\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">complained of his firm&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;incredibly unfair treatment&#8221; abroad.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-46690627\" class=\"story-body__link\">the UK&#8217;s Defence Secretary<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-46431810\" class=\"story-body__link\">chief of MI6<\/a> have been among those to warn that use of Huawei&#8217;s 5G kit poses risks that need fuller consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US and Japan have also flagged concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have warned that the Chinese government could compel the company to disrupt telecom networks that use its equipment or spy on their customers.<\/p>\n<p>But Huawei denies it would ever do so, noting that such action would undermine its business. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, it invited the media to visit its 5G and cyber-security research labs in Dongguan, Guangdong as part of efforts to counter criticism. <\/p>\n<p>Many of Huawei&#8217;s clients opt for its products over rivals, such as Nokia and Ericsson, on both cost and technical grounds. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, its smartphones have proven popular with the public. <\/p>\n<p>Huawei recently revealed it had shipped more than 200 million handsets in 2018, placing it second only to Samsung in terms of market share. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Huawei<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Huawei has just announced a new version of its P Smart phone with an edge-to-edge display<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;We are ahead of others in domains like wireless, optical, data communications, and smart devices,&#8221; wrote chairman Guo Ping in a New Year&#8217;s message shared online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For 5G markets that choose to not work with Huawei &#8211; they will be like an NBA [National Basketball Association] game without star players: the game will go on, but with less deftness, flair, and expertise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beijing&#8217;s criticism of the UK was published in the Global Times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1133889.shtml\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">an English-language government newspaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It said Ministry of National Defence spokesman Wu Qian had told a press conference that suggestions the Chinese government might compromise Huawei&#8217;s technologies were &#8220;groundless&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It said Wu&#8217;s comment was made in reaction to UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson saying earlier this week that: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to recognise the fact, as has been recently exposed, that the Chinese state does sometimes act in a malign way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having made play on a Jane Austen novel title, the newspaper also referenced another popular phrase to offer advice to Huawei, telling it to &#8220;calm down and carry on&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1133838.shtml\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">in a separate editorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-46701005\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images China has accused the UK of &#8220;deep-rooted pride and prejudice&#8221; over security fears raised about Huawei. The Chinese company&#8217;s chairman has also complained of his firm&#8217;s &#8220;incredibly unfair treatment&#8221; abroad. In recent weeks, the UK&#8217;s Defence Secretary and chief of MI6 have been among those to warn that use of Huawei&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}