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Not sure at this point, I don't know if the casted votes are posted.. probably the only way we'll know.
U.S. investigating Huawei for alleged trade secret theft: WSJ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are investigating Huawei Technologies[HWT.UL], the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker, for allegedly stealing trade secrets from U.S. businesses and could soon issue an indictment, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Citing people familiar with the matter, the Journal said that one area of investigation is the technology behind a device that T-Mobile U.S. Inc (TMUS.O) used for testing smartphones. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. The action is the latest in a long list taken to fight what some in the Trump administration call China’s cheating through intellectual property theft, illegal corporate subsidies and rules hampering U.S. corporations that want to sell their goods in China.
The investigation arose out of civil lawsuits against Huawei, the Journal said, including one in Seattle where Huawei was found liable for misappropriating robotic technology from T-Mobile (TMUS.O). A Huawei spokesman and a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney in the western district of Washington declined comment.
T-Mobile alleged in a 2014 lawsuit, filed in federal court in Seattle, that Huawei employees stole technology relating to a smartphone-testing robot T-Mobile had in a lab in Bellevue, Washington. The robot, Tappy, used human-like fingers to simulate tapping on mobile phones. According to T-Mobile’s lawsuit, Huawei employees photographed the robot and attempted to remove one of its parts. In May 2017, a jury said Huawei should pay T-Mobile $4.8 million in damages.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-huawei-tech-probe/u-s-investigating-huawei-for-alleged-trade-secret-theft-wsj-idUSKCN1PA2UV
Senate has to agree with that legislation, first, then Trump would have to sign off on it…chances..of that …zero!
Canada and the Exposure of China’s ‘High-Tech Nuclear Submarine’
TORONTO—In a push to make its brand a household name, Chinese telecom giant Huawei often taps into the favourite pastimes of the countries it’s trying to expand in. In Canada, the company is a major sponsor of “Hockey Night in Canada,” and in Poland, it has used soccer superstar and national team captain Robert Lewandowski to sell its brand. In both countries, however, Huawei has received a barrage of negative publicity in recent weeks, being at the centre of an escalating international spat between Canada and China, and linked to espionage in Poland. Last week, Polish authorities arrested a senior Huawei employee along with a Polish national on suspicion of espionage. Poland is now considering banning the use of Huawei’s products and is calling for a joint EU and NATO position on the company. The Chinese regime reacted to the developments in Poland by expressing grave concerns and asking Poland to respect the Chinese national’s rights. But in the case of Canada, where Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested on an extradition request from the United States, Beijing’s reaction was to warn Canada of “grave consequences.”
Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, captured by the Chinese regime shortly after Meng’s arrest, are still in detention without legal representation. And this week, a Chinese court sentenced Canadian citizen Robert Schellenberg, previously sentenced to 15 years on drug smuggling charges, to death following highly unusual proceedings and wide state media coverage. On Jan. 16, news emerged that Ti-Anna Wang, a Canadian citizen whose father is a political prisoner in China, was briefly detained with her family and interrogated while transiting through the Beijing International Airport. Sheng Xue, a Chinese-born Canadian author, says the reason for Beijing’s escalating reaction to Meng’s arrest is that it exposes China’s flagship company to scrutiny. “Huawei is the high-tech nuclear submarine of the tyrannical Chinese Communist Party. The arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Canada brings this submarine to the surface, so this makes the Chinese regime very frightened and angry,” Sheng Xue said. Huawei is involved in a number of important initiatives for Beijing, Sheng Xue said, ranging from the Great Firewall used to censor the internet to “helping the Chinese Communist Party to have backdoors in mobile phones, computers, communication equipment, and 5G technology.”
Canada is currently evaluating whether to allow Huawei to be part of its 5G network, the next generation in internet technology. The majority of Canada’s allies in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have already rejected Huawei from their 5G networks. Jacob Kovalio, an associate professor at Carleton University’s Department of History and an Asia researcher, says Beijing is worried that if Meng is extradited to the Untied States, she could “spill the beans” under interrogation, which could have very bad implications for the regime. “The crucial element here is that the last word on anything, including activities, investments of formally private companies, is not in the hands of [companies like] Huawei themselves,” Kovalio said. “The last word on everything is that of the political supreme, the political leadership in Beijing, even in the case of a supposedly private company like Huawei.” Huawei was founded by Ren Zhengfei, a former officer of the People’s Liberation Army and the father of Meng. Meng was arrested in Vancouver on Dec. 1, charged by the United States with misrepresenting Huawei’s relations with a Hong Kong-based company that did business with Iran, exposing banks to the risk of violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/canada-and-the-exposure-of-chinas-high-tech-nuclear-submarine_2768961.html
Bit overly concerned enough for you to come here…If you are indeed a journalist…as you say..why don't you grab the truth from your brain and spill it…Promise, in the end, you will like who you see in the mirror and you will be able to sleep.