Perry welcomed Chinese firm despite security concern

[highplainsdem]

Source: Washington Post

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After a months-long courtship that included a trip to China, where he dined with the company’s chief executive, Perry announced that telecom firm Huawei Technologies would base its U.S. operations in Plano. In a video of that October 2010 event — now playing on YouTube, courtesy of the governor’s office — Perry praised the company’s “really strong worldwide reputation” and its chairman, Ren Zhengfei, whose straight talk he said reminded him fondly of West Texans.

While Perry focused on Huawei’s ability to create jobs in a sluggish economy, national security experts in both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations had concluded that the global telecom giant poses a potential cybersecurity risk to U.S. military and businesses. Three times since 2008, a U.S. government security panel has blocked Huawei from acquiring or partnering with U.S. companies because of concerns that secrets could be leaked to China’s government or military.

Perry campaign spokesman Mark Miner said that “if there are national security issues surrounding this company, they should be fully looked at.” He characterized Perry’s main involvement with Huawei as just “a ribbon-cutting for a company that was creating jobs here.”

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While there, Perry made time for a dinner with Huawei’s chief executive, Ren, according to a press release. The Chinese executive is a former leader in the People’s Liberation Army who helped oversee the Chinese military’s telecom intelligence in the 1980s. His company had grown rapidly to become the world’s third-largest telecom equipment provider, with about 1,100 jobs in North America. It opened its first research office in Texas in 2001.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/perry-welcomed-chinese-firm-despite-security-concern/2011/08/10/gIQAAu80EJ_story.html

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In 2008, the last year of the Bush adminstration, the Council on Foreign Investment prevented Huawei from buying 3Com.

The NSA discouraged AT&T from purchasing Huawei equipment in 2009, and the Council on Foreign Investment rejected Huawei's planned partnership with Sprint in 2010. The concern was the possibility of "digital trapdoors" in Huawei equipment.

But Perry has welcomed them to Texas and encouraged their continued investment in the state.

Obviously Perry is aware of how bad this looks, since his campaign spokesman is now trying to pretend Perry's main involvement was the ribbon-cutting ceremony outside Dallas to launch the new Huawei Technologies corporate headquarters.

[Scuba]

1. The only security concerns Republicans seem to have relate to...

...corporate espionage and whistleblowers.

[Angry Dragon]

2. The republicans bitch because they are afraid of the Chinese

taking over this country and then they invite them in anyway
It sounds like parry could be a security risk

[WhiteTara]

5. Perry could be a security risk on many levels.

His type is prone to blackmail for their activities.

[DBoon]

7. I think Republicans secretly admire the Chinese

For having created an authoritarian society run by greed with no labor rights and no environmental restrictions.

Sounds a lot like what Perry tries to make Texas into.

[Historic NY]

3. Better check for a campaign donation..quid pro quo.

[DCKit]

4. OK. Fine. But let's wait until he's the (R) nominee before we expose his treasonous exploits.

We're vetting their candidates for them, and narrowing the field to the few we can't discount.

We need to STFU and reserve our ammunition for the fight. Let Gubernator Good-Hair become the nominee, THEN bring this shit up.

C'mon folks, it ain't rocket surgery.

[Angry Dragon]

9. +1000

[DBoon]

6. Huawei was in serious legal trouble for making counterfeit Cisco gear

I. Cisco Systems files lawsuit against Huawei Technologies
Cisco Systems filed a lawsuit against Huawei Technologies on January 23, 2003 claiming that Huawei had copied, misappropriated, and infringed on Cisco’s intellectual property in its rival line of low-cost networking routers.1 Cisco Systems is an industry leader in providing networking equipment for voice and data transfer. Huawei Technologies is China’s leading manufacturer of telecom and network equipment gear and is viewed by analysts as a formidable competitor to Cisco

http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=36925

of course as a California-based technology corporation, I sure Perry could not possibly care less, and in fact probably enjoys taking down Cisco.

[leveymg]

8. Huawei and its CEO, Mr. Ren, remind one of similar Israeli companies and executives in the industry:

The NSA has long relied on Israeli produced wiretapping systems for much of its domestic telephone/e-mail intercepts that are gathered through CALEA-mandated diverters put in place by the phone companies beginning in the 1990s. Much of this equipment is manufactured by NARUS, VERINT, and NICE, companies founded and still operated by retired Israeli signals intelligence officers. See, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1290021

[Ian David]

10. Rick Perry pals around with CyberTerrorists. n/t

[fujiyama]

11. In many ways China is what they want to model things off of

No labor and environmental regulations, terrible air quality. The workers cannot organize and have no rights.

Crony capitalism at its best. I think Texas is on its way there!

[klook]

12. Texas Miracle: more Chinese jobs (n/t)

[McCamy Taylor]

13. See? A Chinese Super Pac has already bought Rick Perry.

[onehandle]

14. Rick Perry is a traitor. nt

[bobalew]

15. How's This for "Reputation"

Hauwei, has Stolen, IN completion, ALL of Cisco's code, in order to make their Applications for Unified Communications, Such that if you look at their code, you'll see the ORIGINAL Cisco Copyright Statements, which they didn't even bother to remove. This should spread Rotten Egg ALL OVER Perry's face & reputation. WHAT AN IDIOT!

[BackToThe60s]

16. Was he trying to make Texas part of China at the time?

:rofl: