Huawei is a spy agency of the Chinese Communist Party, according to an expert

Beijing's furious response to the arrest of a "princess" of technology, one of Huawei's leading executives, reveals that the company is an integral part of the device. Chinese espionage, explained an expert.

"Huawei is much more than an innocent maker of smartphones. It is a spy agency of the Chinese Communist Party, "wrote Saturday the expert from China, Steven W. Mosher, in a column of the New York Post.

Mosher points out that since the arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, on December 1, in Canada, where she risks extradition to the United States for bank fraud and violation of international sanctions, China has gathered at least three Canadian "hostages".

"Beijing hints that the number of hostages could increase if Meng is not released quickly," Mosher writes. "Even for a rogue regime like China, this kind of action is almost unprecedented."

Huawei Technologies, Deputy Finance Director, Meng Wanzhou at the closure of the Judicial Record following the bail hearing in the British Columbia Superior Court in Vancouver, British Columbia, on December 11

Chinese President Xi Jinping is visiting the state in Portugal earlier this month. Experts argue that the "private" technology company Huawei is actually an arm of the Chinese spy apparatus

Mosher, the author of Bully of Asia: Why China's dream is the new threat to the world order, indicates that this dramatic response adds to the evidence that Huawei, the world's second largest smartphone maker after Samsung , is not a mere private competitor compared to other technology companies around the world.

Huawei has been nurtured by the ruling Communist Party and the military through low interest rate loans and protected access to the domestic market, writes Mosher.

China has also repeatedly stated that all Chinese companies, whether private or not, should help the government collect intelligence.

According to Chinese law, "all organizations and all citizens … must support, collaborate and collaborate in the work of national intelligence and protect the secrets of national intelligence work of which they are aware".

All this led the United States and its allies to consider Huawei with extreme skepticism as the company attempted to launch the development of 5G network technology worldwide, potentially giving the Chinese government access to information networks and the control of these.

Huawei has already been branded a threat to national security by US authorities, who have urged allies hosting US military bases to ban the use of Huawei products in their communications infrastructure.

"Huawei has the same relations with the Chinese Communist Party as the German steelmaker Alfried Krupp forged with the German National Socialists in the days leading up to the Second World War," writes Mosher.

The German arms manufacturer Krupp actually became a wing of the Nazi party during the war, Mosher notes.

The drama of Meng's arrest is the fact that she's not a mere ruler. She is the daughter of Huawei's founder and president, Ren Zhengfei, a former officer of the People's Liberation Army and an elite Communist Party.

Meng (above) is the daughter of the founder and president of Huawei

Meng was arrested in Vancouver on a US warrant accusing him of planning to sell American equipment to Iran in violation of the sanctions law and forging bank records. to hide the transactions.

Meng's lawyers claimed that she had not violated any US or Canadian laws and that she is currently free in Canada on C $ 10 million bail.

Since his arrest, China has arrested at least three Canadian citizens: former diplomat Michael Kovrig, consultant Michael Spavor and most recently teacher Sarah McIver.

Kovrig and Spavor were arrested on December 10 and accused of participating in activities "endangering China's national security".

McIver's detention was confirmed Thursday when Beijing confirmed that she had arrested the Alberta national for "illegal work" in the country.

Canadian officials said McIver's case appeared to be more routine and unrelated to previous arrests.

Friends of the woman's family said that she had indicated that she would be detained for 10 days before returning to Canada.