Huawei lashes out at U.S. politicians calling it “security threat”

PanARMENIAN.Net - Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has hit back at U.S. politicians who labeled it a security threat, BBC News reported.

A senior executive said that Huawei should not be treated unfairly just because it was Chinese.

In October the United States House Intelligence Committee warned U.S. companies against dealing with Huawei and another Chinese telecoms firm, ZTE.

A report by the committee asked whether the firms were too close to China's Communist Party and its military. It also suggested their products and services could pose a long-term security threat to the United States.

But a Huawei board member, Chen Li Fang, told the BBC the company, now number two in the telecoms equipment industry, was focused on delivering secure products.

"We totally understand concerns about cybersecurity," she said. "But if any congressman or woman raises concerns or fears because a company originates in a particular country, I don't think that would be fair."

Chen Li Fang, a Huawei veteran known at the company as Madam Chen, said the company was determined to make itself better known, and saw itself as a model for other Chinese companies.

"Huawei might not be famous now," she said. "But three billion people are using our products either directly or indirectly."