“As the situation in the United States has deteriorated at the global level, the company has made a decision to move those investments into Canada,” confirmed Alykhan Velshi, vice-president of corporate affairs at Huawei Canada. Velshi said the company has spent almost $200 million in Canada in 2019, and noted that next year, that amount will be higher. “Huawei denies this, but the reports are pretty unequivocal.”It’s not just concerns about Xinjiang, Leuprecht said, Huawei technology is being used by a number of repressive regimes to monitor their citizens. China’s military could also be the beneficiary of such technology, Leuprecht said. He fears the Canadian public could end up “underwriting” the research Huawei conducts.

Source: thestar December 05, 2019 01:04 UTC