Huawei has been wrapped again in an international battle between China and the United States, although this time due to the alleged hiring of the Ministry of Interior of the Government of Spain in telephone listening work in judicial cases investigated by the State Security Forces and Bodies.
On July 16, in a letter sent to Tulsi Gabbard, director of National Intelligence of the United States, Tom Cotton and Rick Crawford, directors of the Intelligence Committee for the Senate and Chamber of Representatives, respectively, respectively, They assured that this amounted to 12.3 million euros.
«We urge you to review the intelligence exchange agreements with the Government of Spain to ensure that any information shared with Spanish intelligence and defense services does not reveal the United States National Security Secrets to the Chinese Communist Party (PCCH),» they demanded in the letter.
In addition, they stressed that since the first mandate of Donald Trump, president of the United States, the Administration has carried out a great effort to eliminate Huawei from the map nationwide, for considering a «threat» to the Chinese company.
In the same way, they assured that Huawei has «deep links with the PCCH», with which the Chinese government could have access to key information not only from the United States or Spain, but also of other NATO allies.
As sources from the Ministry of Interior have expressed The countrysaid contract complies with what is specified in the national security scheme, which is in charge of independent authorities of the Ministry.
China’s Embassy in Spain replies: ‘It is a typical bullying act’
The United States has several times companies with Chinese origin for, supposedly, threatening the national security of the country. One of the last issues was the warning of the Office of Industry and Security on the risks of Chinese semiconductors, specifically those of Huawei.
The battle has now extended to Spain, which usually maintains commercial relations with China and its companies, also in other sectors that have no direct relationship with technology.
In a response from the spokesman of the China Embassy in Spain, by Yao Jing, a member of the PCCH, qualifies the letter from the Republican presidents as «a typical act of bullying», with the aim of «defame, restrict and attack throughout the world specific Chinese companies.»
«This attack against Huawei’s products is another example of how the US generalizes the concept of national security, politicizes commercial issues, and imposes perverse blocking and repression against Chinese companies,» says the embassy, in addition to specifying that «convincing evidence» has never been presented.
In the same way, the China Embassy in Spain emphasizes that all Chinese companies that act outside the country maintain their economic activity based on compliance with the concrete laws and regulations of each region.
Thus, the new contract would not refer to servers that can send data outside the country, but to Digital warehouses for listening related to the Interior Ministryalways within the framework of judicial activities.
«All the products that Huawei sells in the Spanish market fully comply with Spanish laws and regulations, as well as with the admission standards and the areas of application of the products that are required,» they add. «Related products do not allow external access to their data, so it is safe.»
Specifically, the Huawei Ocenostor 6800 V5, which would be part of these contracts, are not servers with capacity for data transfer, but to high performance digital storage systems; that is, as a library full of books that cannot be taken out of it.
At the moment, everything remains in the air before the growing tensions between the Government of Spain, the European Union and the US administrationissues that escape Huawei herself, in the center of the hurricane this time.
«China fully trusts that Spain, as a rule of law, will provide a fair, equitable and non -discriminatory business environment for normal operations and cooperations of Chinese companies in the country, in accordance with the principles of opening and transparency of the market and current laws,» concludes the message of the embassy.
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