Huawei says that the United States has "no evidence, nothing" of Chinese espionage

Huawei has just stepped up its war of words with the United States at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​Spain, while it was trying to convince international governments and mobile operators that it was not going to happen. Not spying on people for the Chinese government.

Huawei President Guo Ping delivered a speech at the conference on Tuesday, mainly devoted to the presentation of Huawei's 5G technologies. But he ended the speech by taking it to the United States.

"Huawei has a proven track record in security for three decades," he said. "33 billion people in the world.The accusations of our 5G on US security have no proof, nothing."

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Guo went a step further by criticizing the US Cloud Act, a US law passed in 2018 that requires Amazon, Microsoft and other cloud providers to transmit customer data at the request of the government. It applies regardless of where the data is hosted and could give the United States access to huge amounts of data on European citizens – an item that has alarmed the EU, according to Bloomberg.

"The paradox is that the US Cloud Act allows their entities to access data across borders, so for optimal technology and increased security, choose Huawei, choose Huawei." Guo said.

In his speech, Guo showed a slide with the following statement: "Huawei has not planted and will never plant backdoors".

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"Let me say this as clearly as possible," said Guo. "Huawei does not have and we will never plant backpacks and we will not allow anyone to do it on our equipment, we take this responsibility very seriously." Operators are responsible for the security of their own network operations They can prevent external attacks. "

Guo also referred to President Donald Trump's remarks on 5G, saying the United States needed faster networks.

Guo's comments come as the US government tries to pressure its allies to reconsider the integration of Huawei equipment into their next generation 5G networks. The fear is that the Huawei kit is compromised and could allow the Chinese government to spy on people. It is also disturbing to leave much of the critical mobile infrastructure of the western world in the hands of China.

US lobbying efforts seem to extend to Mobile World Congress, the world's largest annual gathering of mobile operators and equipment providers. The top US cyber defense official, Robert Strayer, is present at the conference and has already made strong arguments against Huawei.

"A country that uses data in the same way as China – to monitor its citizens, establish credit scores and imprison more than one million people for their ethnic and religious backgrounds – should let us think about how which this country could use the data the future, "said Strayer earlier this month, according to the Washington Post. "It would be naïve to think of this country, [given] his influence on his businesses would act to treat our citizens better than his own citizens. "