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Huawei Sues U.S. as a ‘Last Resort’ Over What It Calls an Unfair Ban

by artemiszx on 3/7/19, 5:12 AM with 81 comments

  • by ddoolin on 3/7/19, 6:53 AM

    > “The actual and intended effect of these prohibitions is to bar Huawei from significant segments of the U.S. market for telecommunications equipment and services, thereby inflicting immediate and ongoing economic, competitive, and reputational harms on Huawei,” the company’s lawyers wrote in the suit.

    This is incredulously ironic coming from a Chinese company. China, who sets up just about every barrier imaginable to foreign companies. Do they also lobby the Chinese government in favor of easing restrictions on those foreign businesses? I'm not saying we should follow their lead or really commenting on the merits at all, but I just find these times to be quite strange & humorous indeed.

  • by TaylorGood on 3/7/19, 7:19 AM

    Is it me or has Huawei only appeared in media the last few months? All my years of reading HN, etc. and no recollection until recent controvery. Feels like they’ve managed to stir many waters in record time. For a company founded in 1987, what gave?

  • by grwthckrmstr on 3/7/19, 11:06 AM

    How come nobody talks about the NSA or other US secret agencies to spy on people while simultaneously dissing Huawei for "allegedly" building backdoors to spy on the public?

    Help.me.understand...

  • by techie128 on 3/7/19, 7:46 AM

    It is unbelievable that Huawei can do this in US and pretty much in any democratic country. The reverse is absolutely not true. The Chinese government has used every tool at its disposal to make life miserable for foreign competitors - see Google's exit, AWS, Apple, Uber and countless other companies were / are still being harassed. When was the last time a foreign company won a court case in China against its local competitor and Chinese government took any adverse action against the local company?

  • by stevefan1999 on 3/7/19, 7:12 AM

    And I believe westerners could start a class action on Huawei as well