So, in the annals of Huawei, we had AT&T dropping sales of their smartphones, and now Reuters is saying Best Buy has dropped Huawei products. We had the stories yesterday about Canada, Australia and South Korea raising their interest in what Huawei is up to. This is really starting to pick up steam, and it is not just about domination of the world’s 5G market. The interest in Huawei is about espionage, or some other aspect of national security that nobody is talking about. I have never seen a secret in Washington so well protected. That’s good, mind you, but curious.
When the U.S. Commerce Department cited ZTE for violations of the Iran UN sanctions, another company was involved and there was speculation at the time that it was Huawei. The Obama Administration never took action against Huawei nor ever mentioned the second company that was violating those sanctions. I always wondered why, since they must have known who the other company was. I checked OpenSecrets for political donations to Obama and found nothing - maybe less than nothing, since Huawei gave very little money to anybody. Such a large company, and it gave only $1700 in the 2016 Presidential race. That is hard to believe. So, either the second company was not Huawei, or the $400,000 in lobbying money went to good use. Even small companies spend more than that.
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