华为 Chairman Has a Message for Trump: There Are No Back Doors

华为 has launched a staunch—and cheeky—defence of the embattled Chinese telco equipment maker’s alleged espionage agenda.

In a message targeted at the White House, 这是在2019年MWC大会上发表的, 华为副董事长郭平说, “I understand Trump when he said that the U.S. 需要更强大、更快、更智能的5G. 华为 is far head of the game when it comes to 5G. For the best technology and greater security—choose 华为.”

Guo explicitly addressed claims that his company's infrastructure comes with a path back to Beijing.

“华为 has not and will never plant back doors,” he stated. “华为 has a strong track record in security for three decades. 美国.S. security accusation [about] our 5G has no evidence. 没有什么."

他补充说:“具有讽刺意味的是.S. Cloud Act allows their entities to access data cross borders.”

该法案迫使美国.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. 或者在异国他乡.

It’s the same charge levelled at the Chinese firm.

Guo claimed that 华为 is leading the rollout of 5G globally and backed up his argument with a number of statistics.

Last year, 华为 invested more than $15 billion in technology. It claimed to be the first company able to deploy 5G networks at scale, to deliver 14Gbps per 5G sector and boost 5G speeds using fibre up to 200Gbps, 是任何竞争对手的四倍.

“We are leading in 5G but we understand innovation is nothing without security,他说. “Who is the most trustworthy of them all? It’s a very important question and if you don’t understand that [then] you can go ask Edward Snowden.”

Putting the ball back into the court of network carriers rather than tech vendors he said trust would come only through unified standards and clear regulations.

He continued: “We cannot use prisms, crystal balls, or politics to manage cyber security. 这是我们共同面临的挑战.”

The industry standards body 3GPP was created with the support of many government security agencies.

“Government and mobile operators should work together to agree how this assurance testing and certification regime will be,他说.

华为 has received wider industry backing. 在巴塞罗那, Vodafone CEO Nick Read said that cutting the number of major network suppliers to two from three would damage the industry.

“[It would lead] to a massive swap of equipment, be hugely disruptive to national infrastructure consumers and very, 非常昂贵的,他说. “It will delay 5G in Europe for probably two years. 它在结构上对欧洲不利.”

Turkish mobile operator Turkcell has also come out in support, saying 华为 is "a reliable business partner and the partnership is set to continue." Turkcell added that the "problem is not just about personal data privacy, it's also about just 'a couple of global companies' desire to stay in power”.

Ciaran Martin，美国航空公司首席执行官.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre also recently clarified its position saying the issues with 华为 are not the firm’s links to China but wider issues of telco security.

“These problems are about the standard of cyber security; they are not indicators of hostile activity by China,马丁说.

Guo also said that 华为 is investing to make 5G simpler to install and more efficient to run.

“While the industry’s networks are 21st century, the network operation and maintenance is still in the 18th century,他说. “Globally, 70% of network faults are from human limitations.”

华为 is using AI embedded in its chips to build intelligent networks that would, 除此之外, reduce network issues and reduce power costs for carriers, 他补充说.

图:郭平在MWC 2019上