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Swordsmyth
01-17-2019, 07:41 PM
Huawei’s troubles continue to gather pace.
In recent months the telecoms giant has had its CFO Meng Wanzhou arrested in Canada (http://fortune.com/2018/12/11/huawei-cfo-meng-bail-iran-sanctions/), been barred from the construction of 5G networks in the U.K, Australia, and New Zealand, and had a sales director arrested in Poland on suspicion of espionage (http://fortune.com/2019/01/11/poland-huawei-orange-spying/) (Poland is also considering a ban on the use of Huawei products (https://news.sky.com/story/poland-considers-ban-on-huawei-products-after-spying-arrest-11607097)).
Now, suspicion has spread to the Chinese firm’s sideline in solar panels. U.S. tariffs already posed a barrier (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-solar-electronics-idUSKCN1L609Y) to Huawei’s entry into the country’s growing solar market, but American politicians now claim the firm’s panels could be sleeper agents (https://www.ft.com/content/58fcedea-1905-11e9-9e64-d150b3105d21) for disrupting the U.S. electrical grid.
Democratic congressmen Tom Marino and Jerry McNerny and Republican congressman Bob Latta wrote to U.S. energy secretary Rick Perry about their concerns, stating Huawei’s cheaper solar panel technology “may pose a threat to our nation’s infrastructure.”
On top of this, legislators introduced bills (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-huawei-tech-idUSKCN1PA2LU?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Co ntent&utm_content=5c3f889504d3014f9b24635a&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter) on Wednesday that would restrict sales of U.S. technology to Chinese telecoms companies in violation of sanctions or export control laws.

More at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-trouble-huawei-u-lawmakers-124459931.html