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Huawei to relocate research center
    2019-12-04  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

HUAWEI Technologies Co. plans to shift its research center to Canada from the United States, Ren Zhengfei, the founder of the Chinese telecom equipment maker, said in an interview with Canada’s Globe and Mail published yesterday.

Ren’s remarks came as media reports said Friday that the United States is weighing expanding its power to stop more foreign shipments of products with U.S. technology to Huawei. The U.S. Commerce Department in May placed Huawei on a trade blacklist, citing national security concerns.

Huawei’s “center for research and development will be moved out of the United States. ... and that will be relocated to Canada,” Ren told the Globe and Mail, adding that the company will also manufacture some mobile network equipment outside China.

The Huawei founder also wants to build new factory capacity in Europe to make fifth-generation (5G) networking equipment there, hoping to assuage fears stemming from U.S. allegations that its product could be used for spying, the Globe and Mail reported.

Huawei has repeatedly denied it is a risk to U.S. national security.

The company spent US$510 million on the operations of its U.S. research arm last year, according to the Globe and Mail report, which added that it has now trimmed the arm’s work force by 600 to about 250.

Separately, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested by Canadian police on a U.S. warrant late last year, is fighting extradition to the United States on charges of violating sanctions against Iran. Huawei has denied the charges and China has urged Canada to release her.

Commenting on her case, Ren said that it is an example of “obvious political interference from the United States.”

On the first anniversary of her arrest, Meng has written a reflective letter describing her year in detention in Vancouver as having “moments of fear, pain, disappointment, helplessness, torment and struggle” but also acceptance and more time for herself.

Her arrest, she wrote, had radically changed her daily life, allowing more time for hobbies like reading and painting.

“When I was in Shenzhen, time used to pass by very quickly,” she wrote in the letter, which was published on Huawei’s website Sunday. “Every day, my schedule was fully packed and I was constantly rushing from place to place and from meeting to meeting.”(SD-Agencies)

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