Wow, there seems to be more of the Huawei story of spying on Poland that is leaking out. It seems to be difficult to keep secrets about anything Huawei.
A story in the Wall Street Journal today brings some surprising news about how Huawei was recruiting from the Military University of Technology, an elite school that provides some of the high tech people who enter/support Poland's government. The article says, "Mr. Wang had visited the university in conjunction with a contest run by Huawei called 'Seeds of the Future,' according to the university. In recent years, students there have been among the winners of the contest, which offers all-expenses-paid trips to China, including a week at company headquarters in Shenzhen."
Huawei would say this is just good recruiting in a country that has 50% of its infrastructure provided by Huawei. However, this also looks suspiciously like the paradigm for spies operating in a country who recruit other spies to get information. The Polish official arrested was teaching at the University where he could identify "winners" for the Huawei program and bring them to China to get a better look and make an assessment. Only a few would be good enough. That sounds a lot like spying, not good business recruiting.
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