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China readies antitrust investigation into Google year after Huawei complaint: report - Fox Business

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China is readying to launch an anti-trust investigation into Google amid allegations the American search engine leverages its dominance on the Android mobile operating system to eliminate competition, according to a report published on Wednesday.

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Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., the Chinese telecom giant headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, initiated the complaint last year, which was submitted by China’s top market regulator, the State Administration for Market Regulation, to the State Council’s anti-trust committee for review, Reuters reported, citing two sources who declined to be identified.

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A decision to move forward with a formal investigation into Google, which is operated by its parent company Alphabet Inc., could come as early as October, one of the sources said. The probe also could be affected by the relationship between China and the United States at the time.

President Trump has consistently ramped up pressure on China since first launching a trade war in 2018 and restricting Huawei on national security grounds. His administration threatened similar restrictions against Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp 0981.HK and ordered TikTok owner ByteDance to divest the short-form video app.

The potential investigation conducted by China would also explore accusations that Google’s market position could cause “extreme damage” to Chinese companies like Huawei, leading to loss of confidence and revenue, a source said.

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Despite Huawei being blacklisted by U.S. trade regulators, Google had a temporary license allowing the search engine to provide technical support to new Huawei phone models and access to Google Mobile Services, the developer services bundle upon which most Android apps are based, according to Reuters. The license expired in August.

Just this year, the U.S. has imposed new restrictions on Chinese diplomats and journalists; closed the Chinese consulate in Houston, and repeatedly criticized China on multiple fronts, from its handling of the coronavirus to its military moves in the South China Sea and its human rights record in Hong Kong and the Xinjiang region, home to largely Muslim ethnic groups.

China has rebuked the U.S. and taken parallel measures, including the closing of a U.S. consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu. With almost daily heated exchanges, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that ties face their gravest challenge since the normalization of relations in 1979.

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Meanwhile, a report compiled by the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee into antitrust allegations against Alphabet's Google, as well as Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc., and Apple is expected to come as soon as next Monday.

The four of America's largest tech companies have a combined market value of about $5 trillion.

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Germany crackdown set to exclude Huawei from 5G rollout - Financial Times

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Germany is to impose tough new restrictions on telecoms equipment providers which will effectively exclude Huawei from the buildout of the country’s 5G phone networks.

An IT security bill that Angela Merkel’s cabinet is planning to pass in the coming weeks would stop short of an outright ban on Huawei but creates bureaucratic obstacles that could prove insurmountable for the Chinese company, according to MPs with knowledge of the draft legislation.

A move by the German government to phase out Huawei as a supplier of 5G telecoms equipment would be a huge blow to the Chinese company’s international ambitions. Germany, like the UK, has been one of Huawei’s key markets for expansion outside mainland China and its deals with companies such as Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom have helped turn it into the world’s largest supplier of telecoms equipment.

MPs who have seen the new bill say it will introduce a two-stage approval process for telecoms equipment, involving a technical check of individual components combined with a political assessment of the manufacturer’s “trustworthiness”.

“The German parliament requires the legal means to be able to exclude untrustworthy suppliers like Huawei from the 5G buildout, and this new law appears to do just that,” said Nils Schmid, foreign policy spokesman for the Social Democrats, a junior partner in Ms Merkel’s coalition government who has called for a tougher approach to Huawei.

The bill is not yet finalised and may still undergo technical changes. But it is already clear that it will make it almost impossible for Huawei to participate in Germany’s 5G programme.

“How can Huawei, a company with suspected links to the Chinese state, pass a political trustworthiness test?” said one MP involved in the discussions on the new law. “It’s impossible.”

Angela Merkel in the Bundestag on Wednesday. The German chancellor faced a rebellion from her own party to take a hard line on Huawei © Michael Kappeler/dpa

The bill also envisages a key role for Germany’s intelligence services, which have long been sceptical about Huawei. “In its current form [the bill] envisages that when doubts arise as to a company’s trustworthiness then the government can investigate it, using information provided by the intelligence services,” said Thorsten Frei, an MP with Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU.

Germany joins a growing group of countries that have moved to impose restrictions on Huawei, which critics believe could be used by Beijing to conduct espionage or cyber sabotage. Washington has repeatedly cited a law obliging Chinese companies and citizens to aid the state in intelligence-gathering. Huawei has denied that it is a tool of the Chinese government.

In July, the UK government banned operators from buying new 5G equipment from Huawei from the end of the year, while France has created regulatory hurdles designed to steer telecoms operators away from using the company’s kit.

The US government has been pressing its allies in Europe to drop Huawei as a supplier for several months. Last year the US warned it would scale back intelligence-sharing with Germany unless Berlin blocked Huawei. “The American pressure has been just brutal,” said one senior German official.

On Wednesday, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo used a trip to Rome to warn the Italian government that Chinese technology companies “with ties to the Chinese Communist party” were a threat to Italy’s national security and the privacy of its citizens.

Ms Merkel has resisted US pressure to impose an explicit ban on the Chinese company, telling the FT earlier this year that it was wrong to “simply exclude someone per se”. Instead, she has sought to tighten the country’s security requirements towards all telecoms equipment providers and diversify suppliers.

But she has faced a rebellion from her own party, which has demanded a much harder line on Huawei — as have the Social Democrats and opposition Greens.

Huawei declined to comment on the new German law, stressing that the bill had yet to be finalised. It said it was a “purely private company” that was co-operating with the German security authorities and could “see no plausible reasons to limit our access to the [German] market”.

Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica, two of Germany’s biggest mobile operators, declined to comment. Vodafone said it would “continue to monitor the situation and will always comply with regulations”.

All three companies have used Huawei equipment for their mobile and fixed line networks and that has continued into the 5G era. In recent years the operators have signed deals to use the Chinese company’s kit for radio access networks (RAN) — the equipment that sits on masts and rooftops to connect phone calls.

But even before the new bill was being finalised, the companies had started to move away from using Huawei systems in the “core” — the intelligent part of the network where customer information is processed.

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October 01, 2020 at 01:23AM
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5 Micron Analysts On Q4 Beat, Huawei Challenges - Benzinga

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Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) reported strong fourth-quarter results Tuesday, but the stock is losing ground on the Huawei standoff. 

The Micron Analysts: KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Weston Twigg maintained an Overweight rating and $70 price target.

Needham analyst Rajvindra Gill maintained a Buy rating and reduced the price target from $70 to $65.

Piper Sandler analyst Harsh Kumar reiterated a Neutral rating and cut the price target from $51 to $45. 

Raymond James analyst Chris Caso reiterated a Strong Buy rating and $65 price target.

Rosenblatt Securities analyst Hans Mosesmann reiterated a Buy rating and $100 price target.

KeyBanc Sees Improving Dynamics For Micron: Micron's strong fourth-quarter results were achieved on the back of DRAM sales to cloud, gaming and PC customers; a ramp in QLC NAND; and strong demand from Huawei prior to a Sept. 15 cutoff, KeyBanc's Twigg said in a note. 

The first-quarter revenue guidance of $5.2 billion plus or minus $200 million, though soft, is better than some feared, the analyst said.

In the near-term, softening enterprise demand and the Huawei ban are headwinds, he said. 

Overall demand should improve through calendar year 2021 thanks to growing demand for graphics DRAM and reasonably good demand from cloud and PC customers, Twigg said, citing the company.

Despite the Huawei ban impacting the first- and second-quarter outlook, KeyBanc said it remains bullish due to likely improving dynamics in calendar year 2021 and good long-term tailwinds.

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Why Micron's Present Is ‘Tense,' Future ‘Perfect': The halting of shipments to Huawei on Sept. 14 due to U.S. sanctions on China is the primary reason for the soft forward guidance, said Needham's Gill.

Huawei accounted for just under 10% of fourth-quarter sales, the analyst said. 

Weak enterprise demand due to lower IT spending from COVID-19 and higher customer inventories leading to lower pricing have also impacted the guidance, he said. 

"While we expect the near-term environment to be choppy, we expect several secular growth drivers in CY21: new CPU architectures driving higher server content, 5G smartphone growth, rebound in auto, ongoing gaming strength and cloud and AI machine generating higher memory growth," Gill said. 

Piper Sandler On Micron's 'Indigestion': The below-consensus guidance reflects technology transitions in DRAM, headwinds from Huawei and lackluster trends in some end markets, Kumar said. Micron appears to be going through some "indigestion" in the near-term, the analyst said. 

"Micron has applied for a license to ship to Huawei, but being granted one is still uncertain."  

Piper Sandler notably lowered its EPS estimates for the first half of 2021.

Micron's Risk-Reward Favorable, RayJay Says: The factors leading to near-term weakness for Micron are all transitory by nature, Caso said in a note. 

Micron has in excess of $7-per-share share earnings power in a recovery scenario, assuming a resumption of trendline demand trends, coupled with continued control of DRAM capex, the analyst said.

Despite Micron's suggestion of a strong recovery in the second half, Raymond James said it is cautious with respect to the NAND outlook due to Samsung's aggressive strategy.

"Net, we continue to view the stock's risk/reward favorably given the lowered near term expectations and our view of cyclical earnings power."  

Rosenblatt Says Buy The Micron Dip: Huawei's 10% level run-rate shutdown will require one-and-a-half quarters to offset, Mosesmann said in a note.

Additionally, near-term gross margins will remain weak due to increased NAND mix and various new DRAM ramps, the analyst said.

The inventory issue is localized in enterprise, with no or limited inventory issues, the analyst said. 

"Supply related discipline into 2021 from the oligopoly suggests to us tightness in DRAMs with NAND being more a wildcard, but we think modest given Micron's relative smaller exposure," he said. 

Rosenblatt said it would use the reset resulting from one-off events such as COVID-19 and Huawei to buy the stock.

Micron Price Action: At last check, Micron shares were down 6.51% to $47.41.

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Sep 2020 RBC Capital Maintains Outperform
Sep 2020 Deutsche Bank Maintains Hold
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October 01, 2020 at 12:36AM
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Huawei Mate X2 certified, as Mate Xs EMUI 11 beta program starts - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

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With the Kirin 1000 chip shortage that Huawei is experiencing, there were speculations the Huawei Mate X2 won't come around until next year. But the new Wi-Fi certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance is indicating otherwise.

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The fact that Mate X2 had passed the certification process clearly indicates that its launch is around the corner. Other than the fact that it would support Wi-Fi 6 and run EMUI 11, there's nothing else that could be of any interest in the actual listing.

In other Huawei foldable phone news, the Mate Xs has entered the EMUI 11 beta program indicating that the final software for Huawei's current foldable smartphone will soon arrive. The device enters the program along with the MatePad 10.8.

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China reportedly readying antitrust probe into Google after Huawei prompt - CNET

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Huawei, one of the world's biggest phone makers, may have proposed that China launch an antitrust investigation into Google.

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China may launch an antitrust investigation into Google after Huawei alleged that the search giant's use of its dominant Android operating system hurts competition, Reuters reported Wednesday. The Chinese State Council's antitrust committee may decide on the probe next month, and the country's relations with the US could be a factor, the news agency noted.

The Trump administration has restricted Huawei and the other Chinese telecoms in recent years, citing national security concerns due to fears that their equipment could be used to spy on other countries and companies. As a result, Huawei is barred from using Android and Google services like the Play Store in its new phones, forcing it to develop its own operating system.

Google is no stranger to allegations of antitrust. The US Department of Justice is eyeing the company, and the European Commission hit it with a $1.7 billion fine for "abusive" online ad practices last year.

Neither the State Council, Google nor Huawei immediately responded to requests for comment.

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Germany stops short of Huawei ban, but raises bar to entry - Light Reading

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It's been a long time coming, but Germany's coalition government appears to have finally reached agreement on how to handle "high-risk" vendors in a proposed IT security law after grappling with the issue for two years.

According to German broadsheet Handelsblatt, Germany has stopped short of issuing an outright ban on vendors such as Huawei Technologies, but has raised the bar for participation in 5G networks so high that the China-based vendor will be lucky to keep a foothold in the market.

So near: Germany is dealing with the Huawei issue by creating so much red tape their products will be forever just out of reach. (Source: James Pond on Unsplash)
So near: Germany is dealing with the Huawei issue by creating so much red tape their products will be forever just out of reach.
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Citing unidentified government sources, Reuters said scrutiny of a vendor's governance and technology would be extended to 5G radio access networks (RAN), in addition to the 5G core.

Reuters noted German officials say that while the UK has formally banned Huawei and France will informally exclude it, Germany will effectively strangle it in red tape.

"The final outcome is the same," one senior security official told the news agency.

The compromise is now expected to be drafted into a legal text, and reviewed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet in November, according to Handelsblatt.


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The move will come as a blow to German operators, which have deployed Huawei equipment in their existing networks and have argued that replacing it would be costly.

It's certainly no secret Deutsche Telekom has relied heavily on the Chinese company. The operator has signed contracts with Huawei and its other main supplier, Ericsson, to upgrade its radio access network from 4G to 5G, for example.


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However, Deutsche Telekom also issued a statement insisting it is not as tied as it used to be. It probably hoped Ericsson's announcement of a stronger 5G partnership with its German client would back up that claim.

Strand Consult, an advisory group, estimates that Huawei accounts for about 65% of Deutsche Telekom's entire RAN, with Ericsson providing the remainder. Unless it wants to leave some 5G "not spots," Deutsche Telekom would have to replace all the Huawei gear.

In late 2019, Vodafone confirmed that Nokia is replacing Huawei in parts of Vodafone Germany's core network.

Meanwhile, Strand Consult estimated around 50% of Telefónica's RAN products in Germany are Huawei.

US authorities are now using the word "clean" to describe foreign networks that are free of Chinese influence.

José María Álvarez-Pallete López, Telefónica's CEO, has since confirmed that Telefónica Spain and O2 (UK) "are fully clean networks, and Telefónica Deutschland (Germany) and Vivo (Brazil) will be in the near future without equipment from any untrusted vendors."

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Huawei lawyers to respond to prosecution arguments in CFO's U.S. extradition case - Reuters

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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou will have a chance on Wednesday to respond to arguments made by the Canadian government, as Huawei pushes to add an allegation of abuse of process to block her extradition to the United States.

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The hearings, which will finish on Wednesday, are the latest in Meng’s extradition case taking place in the British Columbia Supreme Court.

Meng, 48, was arrested in December 2018 on a warrant from the United States charging her with bank fraud for misleading HSBC about Huawei’s business dealings in Iran and causing the bank to break U.S. sanction law.

The arrest has strained China’s relations with the United States and Canada. Soon after Meng’s detention, China arrested Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, charging them with espionage.

The daughter of billionaire Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, Meng has said she is innocent and is fighting extradition while under house arrest in Vancouver.

The hearings are referred to as Vukelich hearings, meaning the judge must decide whether the defence’s latest allegation is plausible enough to be worth fully litigating.

If the judge rules in Meng’s favour, an additional set of hearings will be added to argue the allegation. A decision on this is expected by Oct. 30.

Meng’s lawyers argued over Monday and Tuesday that the United States omitted key facts about her communication with HSBC about Huawei’s business in Iran, stating that it “misdescribed the facts to construct a stronger case of alleged fraud” when it requested that Canada arrest Meng on its behalf in December 2018, to the extent that constituted a violation of Meng’s human rights.

The defence largely relied on a PowerPoint presentation, which it said the United States misrepresented.

In their arguments on Tuesday, lawyers for the Canadian government accused the defence of attempting to litigate the fraud charges against Meng in the Canadian extradition case.

Crown lawyer Robert Frater asked the judge to keep the case “on the straight and narrow” and “refuse to spend precious court time on issues that have no hope of success.”

Meng’s extradition hearings are scheduled to finish in April 2021, although the case could drag on for years if either side chooses to appeal the initial decision.

Reporting by Moira Warburton and Tessa Vikander in Vancouver; Editing by Denny Thomas and Stephen Coates

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Sanctions-hit Huawei ramps up investment in Chinese tech sector - Reuters

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies has built up stakes in Chinese semiconductor companies and other tech businesses as the world’s largest telecoms equipment maker bolsters its supply chain in the face of pressure from the United States.

FILE PHOTO: A Huawei company logo is pictured at the Shenzhen International Airport in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

Habo Investments, set up by Huawei in April 2019, has closed 17 deals for stakes in Chinese tech companies since August last year, public records show.

The investment arm was established in response to what Huawei’s rotating chairman, Guo Ping, last week described as “suppression” by the United States after escalating restrictions that have cut off Huawei’s supplies of many overseas chips and effectively barred it from building its own.

“Since Huawei is only one company, we use investment and technology to help our supply chain partners become mature,” he said.

The company has emerged as a focal point in deteriorating U.S.-China relations with President Donald Trump’s administration alleging that its equipment could be used by Beijing for spying, which the Chinese company has denied repeatedly.

Huawei’s investment push also coincides with ramped-up government efforts to boost China’s semiconductor sector, which still lags behind leading chip producers including the United States, South Korea and Taiwan.

CHASING CHIPS

While the investments might help Huawei in the future, analysts say they have done little so far to address the supply chain gaps that are undermining its once-booming smartphone business and could eventually threaten its core network equipment operations.

“It will take a long time,” said one Chinese chip investor. “But they don’t have many good options, so they must turn to investing outside.”

Huawei declined to comment on the investment division’s operations.

Most of Habo Investment’s deals have been in chip-related Chinese start-ups, a few of which have become part of Huawei’s supply chain.

Vertilite, which was founded in 2015 and received an investment from Huawei this year, makes VCSEL sensors that support facial-recognition technology in cameras.

The company did not respond immediately to a request for comment, but one Vertilite investor said its sensors are used in a number of Huawei handsets.

However, many of the businesses Huawei has backed are at an early stage in their development.

“Most of these companies are small, niche players who are good at what they do, but they are not necessarily globally competitive,” said Ivan Platonov, who tracks China’s chip sector at research company EqualOcean.

Shoulder Electronics, for example, makes RF filters that enable wireless communications but has yet to achieve compatibility for advanced 5G phones.

A spokesman for the company, which received investment from Habo in January, could not be reached outside business hours on Monday.

3Peak, which also received investment from Habo this year, makes analogue-to-digital converters (ADC) used in wireless network base stations.

U.S. players dominate that market segment and 3Peak generated only 300 million yuan ($43.99 million) in revenue last year, according to a prospectus it issued before listing on Shanghai’s STAR market.

3Peak did not respond immediately to an emailed request for comment.

Habo’s portfolio also includes companies outside Huawei’s core telecoms operations. Several investments in chips, raw materials and battery technology companies point to ambitions in self-driving cars.

Late last month it also closed an investment in Open Source China, a Shenzhen-based business behind Gitee, a Chinese rival to U.S. coding platform GitHub.

Gitee did not respond immediately to an emailed request for comment.

Habo typically acquires stakes of 5-10%, filings show, though valuations have not been disclosed.

CHANGE OF PACE

The recent investments mark a change in pace and tactics for Huawei, ramping up the frequency of such deals and refocusing on domestic businesses rather than overseas companies.

In 2013, for example, Huawei acquired Ghent-based photonics company Calopia. The following year it purchased Neul, a British maker of chips for the internet-of-things sector.

“Huawei likes to do its own R&D. So investment or acquisition was done only as a last resort, and that was why it tended to be towards U.S. or European technology companies,” said one former Huawei staffer who helped to scout acquisition targets.

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Prosecutor: Huawei defense turning US extradition into trial - Washington Post

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The U.S. accuses Huawei of using a Hong Kong shell company called Skycom to sell equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. It says Meng, 48, committed fraud by misleading the HSBC bank about the company’s business dealings in Iran.

Prosecutor Robert Frater said evidence that establishes a defense or an alternative inference of what happened does not meet the test of relevance for an extradition hearing.

“Your duty is not to let this proceeding become a trial. Extraditions are not trials,” Frater told a judge Tuesday.

Frater questioned Meng’s lawyers denials they are not trying to introduce a defense to the charges.

“Saying that does not make it so,” said Frater.

Much of the case against Meng is based on an August 2013 PowerPoint presentation she made to a HSBC executive during a lunch in Hong Kong. Meng’s lawyers want the entire PowerPoint included in the hearing. They have accused the U.S. of using a misleading summary of the meeting that “cherry picks” evidence.

The defense argues that the U.S. tried to prove its point using selected slides. But if the full presentation is viewed, Meng explains the relationship between Huawei and Skycom.

“A banker would have left the meeting knowing Skycom and Huawei were working together in Iran,” said defense lawyer Frank Addario.

Meng’s lawyers argue she gave HSBC enough information to make its own decisions regarding U.S. sanctions.

Meng followed the proceedings through an interpreter, taking occasional sips from a water bottle. She came into the courtroom wearing a mask, which she later removed, and an electronic tracking device on her ankle which is part of her bail provisions.

This week’s proceedings are part of Meng’s arguments that the extradition proceedings should be halted because of an abuse of process.

In hearings set for early 2021, her lawyers will claim Canada Border Services Agency officers detained and questioned Meng without a lawyer, seized her electronic devices and compelled her to give up the passcodes before her official arrest.

They also plan to argue the Royal Canadian Mounted Police acted at the behest of the FBI to gather and share technical information about Meng’s laptop, phones, and tablets, in violation of the Extradition Act.

Meng’s arrest has soured relations between Canada and China. In apparent retaliation, China detained former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor. China has also placed restrictions on various Canadian exports to China, including canola oil seed.

Meng remains free on bail in Vancouver. The extradition case could take years. One extradition case in British Columbia lasted 13 years.

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Micron yet to regain license to sell to Huawei, pressuring sales - Reuters

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(Reuters) - Micron Technology Inc has not yet obtained new licenses needed to sell its memory chips to China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, which will cut its sales over the next two quarters, company executives said on Tuesday.

FILE PHOTO: Micron Technology's solid-state drive for data center customers is presented at a product launch event in San Francisco, U.S., October 24, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Nellis/File photo

Boise, Idaho-based Micron, one of the world’s biggest makers of DRAM chips, said it had previously obtained licenses from the U.S. government to sell chips for mobile phones and servers from its factories outside the United States to Huawei, which has been the target of U.S. restrictions on chip sales since last year.

Huawei accounted for about $600 million of Micron’s $6.06 billion in sales for the fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 3, or just under 10%.

But a new round of restrictions that took effect in September barred sales of any chip made using U.S. tools or software, which rendered Micron’s earlier licenses invalid and halted sales on Sept. 14.

“The manufacturing equipment in those fabs are obviously from U.S.-based companies,” Micron’s chief business officer, Sumit Sadana, told Reuters in an interview. These included Applied Materials Inc and Lam Research Corp.

Sadana said Micron has applied to the U.S. government for new licenses to sell to Huawei but does not yet have them and does not know if or when they will be approved. The company is shifting to selling to other smart phone customers but the shift will take until Micron’s fiscal second quarter to complete.

“As soon as we get the license, we would work with Huawei to determine how we can resurrect the business,” Sadana said.

Micron shares, which were volatile in extended trading, were down 2% at $49.84 after the company disclosed the Huawei hit.

Revenue jumped over 24% to $6.06 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter, beating analysts’ estimate of $5.89 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

The company expects fiscal first-quarter sales to be $5.2 billion, plus or minus $200 million, while analysts on average were expecting $5.31 billion.

Net income attributable to the company rose to $988 million, or 87 cents per share, in the last quarter, from $561 million, or 49 cents per share, a year earlier. (bit.ly/2EP3qEo)

Excluding items, Micron earned $1.08 per share, beating analysts’ estimates of 99 cents.

Reporting by Akanksha Rana in Bengaluru and Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila and Richard Pullin

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U.S. renews pressure on Europe to ditch Huawei in new networks - Reuters

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Telecoms company Huawei Technologies is part of China’s surveillance state, complicit in human rights abuses, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday, as Washington renewed pressure on Europe to ban the company from fifth-generation (5G) networks.

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Keith Krach, the undersecretary of state for economic affairs, stepped up warnings as Germany and Italy consider their next-generation mobile networks, in his first tour of European capitals since the COVID-19 pandemic hindered travel in March.

Krach said that Finland's Nokia NOKIA.HE and Sweden's Ericsson ERICb.ST were the only companies that European governments should choose.

Huawei [HWT.UL] is “an arm of the CCP surveillance state and a tool for human rights abuse,” Krach told a German Marshall Fund think-tank event, referring to the Chinese Communist Party.

Huawei has repeatedly rejected U.S. charges that its equipment for 5G networks could be used for spying.

Krach, who said he had held talks with German executives and officials, linked Huawei to Beijing’s security crackdown in Hong Kong and the repression of China’s Uighur Muslims, though he did not provide any evidence during his online address.

He said Huawei’s involvement in European 5G mobile networks would put the NATO alliance at risk, saying that for China the new technology was “the backbone of their surveillance state”.

“Untrusted, high-risk vendors like Huawei and ZTE provide the CCP’s authoritarian government the capacity to disrupt or weaponise critical applications in infrastructure or provide technological advances to China’s military forces,” Krach said.

Italy and Germany are discussing whether to allow Huawei to play a role in building the nations’ 5G network, after Britain and France adopted a de-facto ban on the Chinese company.

Huawei is already under sanctions in the United States, aimed at shutting it out of the 5G market there and forcing its U.S. suppliers to seek a licence before selling to the company.

Meanwhile, Huawei has built up stakes in Chinese semiconductor companies and other tech businesses, bolstering its supply chain in face of pressure from the United States.

Reporting by Robin Emmott; Editing by Kirsten Donovan

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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Prosecutor: Huawei defense turning US extradition into trial - The Associated Press

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A Canadian prosecutor says by requesting the inclusion of additional evidence the defense team for a Chinese executive wanted in the United States is coming close to turning an extradition hearing into a trial.

Canada arrested the chief financial officer of Huawei at Vancouver’s airport in late 2018. The U.S. wants Meng Manzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder, extradited to face fraud charges. Her arrest infuriated Beijing.

The U.S. accuses Huawei of using a Hong Kong shell company called Skycom to sell equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. It says Meng, 48, committed fraud by misleading the HSBC bank about the company’s business dealings in Iran.

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Prosecutor Robert Frater said evidence that establishes a defense or an alternative inference of what happened does not meet the test of relevance for an extradition hearing.

“Your duty is not to let this proceeding become a trial. Extraditions are not trials,” Frater told a judge Tuesday.

Frater questioned Meng’s lawyers denials they are not trying to introduce a defense to the charges.

“Saying that does not make it so,” said Frater.

Much of the case against Meng is based on an August 2013 PowerPoint presentation she made to a HSBC executive during a lunch in Hong Kong. Meng’s lawyers want the entire PowerPoint included in the hearing. They have accused the U.S. of using a misleading summary of the meeting that “cherry picks” evidence.

The defense argues that the U.S. tried to prove its point using selected slides. But if the full presentation is viewed, Meng explains the relationship between Huawei and Skycom.

“A banker would have left the meeting knowing Skycom and Huawei were working together in Iran,” said defense lawyer Frank Addario.

Meng’s lawyers argue she gave HSBC enough information to make its own decisions regarding U.S. sanctions.

Meng followed the proceedings through an interpreter, taking occasional sips from a water bottle. She came into the courtroom wearing a mask, which she later removed, and an electronic tracking device on her ankle which is part of her bail provisions.

This week’s proceedings are part of Meng’s arguments that the extradition proceedings should be halted because of an abuse of process.

In hearings set for early 2021, her lawyers will claim Canada Border Services Agency officers detained and questioned Meng without a lawyer, seized her electronic devices and compelled her to give up the passcodes before her official arrest.

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They also plan to argue the Royal Canadian Mounted Police acted at the behest of the FBI to gather and share technical information about Meng’s laptop, phones, and tablets, in violation of the Extradition Act.

Meng’s arrest has soured relations between Canada and China. In apparent retaliation, China detained former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor. China has also placed restrictions on various Canadian exports to China, including canola oil seed.

Meng remains free on bail in Vancouver. The extradition case could take years. One extradition case in British Columbia lasted 13 years.

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U.S. renews pressure on Europe to ditch Huawei in new networks - WHBL News

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Telecoms company Huawei Technologies is part of China's surveillance state, complicit in human rights abuses, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday, as Washington renewed pressure on Europe to ban the company from fifth-generation (5G) networks.

Keith Krach, the undersecretary of state for economic affairs, stepped up warnings as Germany and Italy consider their next-generation mobile networks, in his first tour of European capitals since the COVID-19 pandemic hindered travel in March.

Krach said that Finland's Nokia and Sweden's Ericsson were the only companies that European governments should choose.

Huawei [HWT.UL] is "an arm of the CCP surveillance state and a tool for human rights abuse," Krach told a German Marshall Fund think-tank event, referring to the Chinese Communist Party.

Huawei has repeatedly rejected U.S. charges that its equipment for 5G networks could be used for spying.

Krach, who said he had held talks with German executives and officials, linked Huawei to Beijing's security crackdown in Hong Kong and the repression of China's Uighur Muslims, though he did not provide any evidence during his online address.

He said Huawei's involvement in European 5G mobile networks would put the NATO alliance at risk, saying that for China the new technology was "the backbone of their surveillance state".

"Untrusted, high-risk vendors like Huawei and ZTE provide the CCP's authoritarian government the capacity to disrupt or weaponise critical applications in infrastructure or provide technological advances to China's military forces," Krach said.

Italy and Germany are discussing whether to allow Huawei to play a role in building the nations' 5G network, after Britain and France adopted a de-facto ban on the Chinese company.

Huawei is already under sanctions in the United States, aimed at shutting it out of the 5G market there and forcing its U.S. suppliers to seek a licence before selling to the company.

Meanwhile, Huawei has built up stakes in Chinese semiconductor companies and other tech businesses, bolstering its supply chain in face of pressure from the United States.

(Reporting by Robin Emmott; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)

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Nokia clinches 5G deal with BT to phase out Huawei's kit in EE network - BBC News

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Nokia is set to become a major beneficiary of Huawei being blocked from the UK's 5G networks.

The Finnish telecoms firm has struck a deal to become the largest equipment provider to BT.

Nokia will now provide additional base stations and antennas to let EE customers' devices make calls and transmit data via the UK firm's 5G "radio access network".

The deal will also see Nokia replace Huawei in BT's 2G and 4G networks.

EE's network already uses Nokia to provide its 3G service.

The UK governmentannounced in July that all the UK's mobile providers were being banned from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after 31 December, and must also remove all the Chinese firm's 5G kit from their networks by 2027.

The decision, which was taken on national security grounds, effectively ended a strong relationship between BT and Huawei that dated back to 2005.

Extended relationship

Earlier this year, BT said Nokia's equipment was used at about a third of its 4G sites, which were being upgraded to 5G, while Huawei's kit was used at the remaining ones.

At present, Nokia's kit provides coverage to EE customers across parts of London, the Midlands and various rural locations.

The latest deal will extend BT's use of its telecoms infrastructure products to further cities and towns including Aberdeen, Cambridge, Dundee, Exeter, Southampton and York.

It means Nokia is now set to account for about two-thirds of BT's radio access kit.

"It was inevitable that some of Huawei's equipment was going to be replaced because of the government's decision," commented John Delaney, a telecoms analyst at IDC.

"The big change here is that BT wasn't planning to use Nokia's equipment in many densely populated areas, and now they are. But apart from that it's not a major departure from their earlier plans."

It is expected that BT will soon strike a deal to buy kit from a second vendor to avoid becoming solely dependent on Nokia once Huawei's kit is banned outright.

"With this next stage of our successful relationship with Nokia, we will continue to lead the rollout of fixed and mobile networks to deliver stand-out experiences for customers," said BT's chief executive Philip Jansen in a statement.

Nokia's president Pekka Lundmark said he was delighted to become "BT's largest infrastructure partner".

A spokesman for Huawei claimed that reducing the number of infrastructure equipment providers risked "delaying the 5G roll-out and undermining diversity of supply so essential to network security".

OpenRan experiments

BT had previously picked another Nordic telecoms kit provider - Ericsson - to replace Huawei's equipment in its "core" - the most sensitive parts of its network that route data and voice calls across computer servers to get them to the right destination.

Ericsson is the favourite to be named as BT's second radio access network kit supplier, but it is still likely to lag Nokia in terms of the number of 5G masts and base stations it would provide..

Nokia's deal with BT also says the two will work together to develop an "OpenRan ecosystem". This refers to a plan to eventually standardise the hardware used in radio access networks so that one supplier can be switched for another via software alone, avoiding the need to rip out one firm's customised equipment and replace it with another's.

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Canada to present arguments in latest round of Huawei CFO Meng's U.S. extradition case - Reuters

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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canadian prosecutors are set to present their argument on Tuesday after Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou’s lawyers sought to add a new charge in their effort to stop her extradition to the United States.

The second day of hearing is the latest in a series of Meng’s extradition case taking place in British Columbia Supreme Court. On Monday, Meng’s lawyers argued to add an additional allegation in the abuse of power by Canadian and U.S. authorities during her arrest.

Meng, 48, was arrested in December 2018 on a warrant from the United States charging her with bank fraud for misleading HSBC HSBA.L about Huawei's business dealings in Iran and causing the bank to break U.S. sanction law.

The daughter of billionaire Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, Meng has said she is innocent and is fighting extradition from her house arrest in Vancouver.

The hearings - which are expected to last until Wednesday - are referred to as Vukelich hearings, meaning the judge must decide whether the defence’s latest allegation is plausible enough to be worth fully litigating.

If the judge rules in Meng’s favour, an additional set of hearings will be added to argue the allegation.

Scott Fenton, a lawyer for Meng, argued on Monday that the United States “misdescribed the facts to construct a stronger case of alleged fraud” when it requested that Canada arrest Meng on its behalf in December 2018.

Meng is relying on a PowerPoint presentation she gave to HSBC about Huawei’s business dealings in Iran. The United States has used part of the presentation to prove that she misled the bank, but Meng and her lawyers argue otherwise.

The arrest has strained China’s relations with the United States and Canada. Soon after Meng’s detention, China arrested Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, charging them with espionage.

Reporting by Moira Warburton in Vancouver; Editing by Denny Thomas

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Huawei mopping up stakes in domestic chip suppliers – report - Light Reading

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Huawei Technologies has been quietly building up a stock of China-based technology companies in order to boost its supply chain, according to reports.

Citing public records, Reuters said the China-based vendor established Habo Investment in April 2019, and since last August has acquired 17 stakes in Chinese tech companies.

Reuters noted the investment arm was established in response to what Huawei's rotating chairman, Guo Ping, last week described as "suppression" by the US.

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This came after escalating restrictions that have cut off Huawei's supplies of many overseas chips and effectively barred it from building its own.

Most of Habo Investment's deals are said to have been in chip-related Chinese startups, a few of which have become part of Huawei's supply chain. However, many of the businesses are at an early stage of development.

According to CB Insights, the most recent five investment deals were for stakes in Xingongshi Technology, SmartSens Technology, Oriental Semiconductor, Fuxi Technology and Vertilite.

China Money Network also reported that Habo invested in artificial intelligence company iDeepWise in October last year, and in Suzhou MotorComm Electronic Technology, a wired communication chips provider, in November.

In the firing line
Efforts by Huawei to fill the gaps in its supply chain come as little surprise, as it seeks alternative ways to shore up its smartphone and network equipment business.

Huawei has certainly become the focal point of the Trump administration's trade war with China, and opposition to the use of its equipment in 5G networks is now evident in a number of markets around the world.

US sanctions have also been imposed on Huawei: The third and most severe round started on September 15, denying the vendor access to any components made with US technology.

The company is tussling with the US government on a number of fronts: It is currently engaged in a legal battle to prevent its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, from being extradited from Canada to the US, with the latest round set to take place today.

Meng was first arrested in December 2018, charged with being in violation of US sanctions when a company controlled by Huawei sold telecom equipment to Iran.

Specifically, the US said she lied to bankers about Huawei's links to Skycom Tech, a firm that was active in Iran and an alleged shell company for Huawei.

According to US prosecutors, and noted again in this Canadian trial, Huawei's Meng is said to have claimed that Skycom was a partner, not a subsidiary.

Spreading the net
Huawei is of course far from the only China-based company to have fallen foul of the Trump administration.


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TikTok and WeChat have recently been in the news over a possible ban in the US.

However, a federal judge blocked an order that would have required Apple and Google's owner Alphabet to remove TikTok from their US app stores, and WeChat users won a preliminary injunction against a similar ban.

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Monday, September 28, 2020

Lawyer for Huawei CFO says US evidence misleading - The Associated Press

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Lawyers for a senior executive for Chinese technology giant Huawei Technologies argued in a Canadian courtroom Monday that U.S. authorities used a misleading summary that “cherry picks” evidence in requesting her extradition.

Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder, at Vancouver’s airport in late 2018. The U.S. wants her extradited to face fraud charges. Her arrest infuriated Beijing, which sees her case as a political move designed to prevent China’s rise.

The U.S. accuses Huawei of using a Hong Kong shell company called Skycom to sell equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. It says Meng, 48, committed fraud by misleading the HSBC bank about the company’s business dealings in Iran.

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Defense lawyer Scott Fenton said the case against Meng hinges on an August 2013 PowerPoint presentation made to a HSBC executive during a lunch in Hong Kong.

In making its case the U.S. accuses Meng of failing to inform HSBC during the presentation that Huawei controls Skycom.

Fenton argued that the U.S. tried to prove its point using selected slides. But if the full presentation is viewed, Meng said Huawei had a “normal and controllable” relationship with Skycom.

“It is seriously misleading by omission,” he said.

Fenton said Meng supplied enough information for HSBC to make its own decisions.

“She told them everything they need to know to measure sanctions risks,” he said.

Meng appeared in court for the first time since May. She was wearing a tracking device as part of her bail agreement. She began the day wearing a mask but removed it as court continued.

Monday’s proceedings are part of Meng’s arguments that the extradition proceedings should be halted because of an abuse of process.

Her lawyers claim Canada Border Services Agency officers detained and questioned Meng without a lawyer, seized her electronic devices and compelled her to give up the passcodes before her official arrest.

They argue the Royal Canadian Mounted Police acted at the behest of the FBI to gather and share technical information about Meng’s laptop, phones, and tablets, in violation of the Extradition Act.

In May, Meng failed in a bid to end the extradition process when a Canadian judge ruled the allegations against her could constitute a crime in Canada as well.

Meng’s arrest has soured relations between Canada and China. In apparent retaliation, China detained former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor. China has also placed restrictions on various Canadian exports to China, including canola oil seed.

Meng remains free on bail in Vancouver. The extradition case could take years

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Case to extradite Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to US resumes - The Guardian

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The legal battle between Washington and Huawei resumes this week when a Canada-based senior executive at the Chinese state-backed telecommunications firm reappears in a Vancouver court on Monday claiming the effort to extradite her to the US should be thrown out.

Huawei will claim an abuse of process, arguing the US government has provided Canadian authorities with partial and misleading evidence in an effort to show finance officer Meng Wanzhou tried to circumvent US sanctions on Iran 10 years ago.

Meng, the daughter of the company’s founder, will appear in court on Monday for the first time in months after the Canadian government ordered her to remain in Vancouver until her extradition is settled.

The Chinese government has condemned the US extradition drive as nakedly political. Huawei’s drawn out legal fight aims to show the US government it has no hope of securing Weng’s extradition for many years, and increase political pressure on the Canadian government to acknowledge its justice system is being used as part of Donald Trump’s trade battle with Beijing.

The US government allege Meng breached US sanctions by covertly trading with Iran using a Huawei front company Skycom.

Two Canadian citizens – Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat, and Michael Spavor, an entrepreneur – have been arrested in China in what is seen as a tit for tat reprisal. It is unlikely the pair will be released unless Canada takes the unusual step of intervening in the extradition.

Lovring’s wife has called for Meng’s release. Chinese diplomats in Canada have also warned relations between the two countries are worsening due to the episode.

In the new court papers, Meng’s defence team will argue that the US government committed a fraud by providing Canada with a misleading record of the case against her when they sought her arrest on fraud and conspiracy charges in Vancouver in December 2018.

The US government claims the 48-year-old finance officer misled an HSBC executive in August 2013 about Huawei’s relationship with a Skycom subsidiary accused of violating American economic sanctions against Iran.

According to prosecutors, HSBC rested on her false assurances to continue financing Huawei, using dollar transaction, placing the bank at risk of prosecution and fines by the US.

Court papers submitted by Meng’s lawyers claim the US government only provided Canadian authorities with 4 of the 16 slides used by her at a powerpoint presentation to reassure HSBC. The full set of slides, her lawyers claim, show she told HSBC bankers about Huawei controlling the Skycom bank account in Iran.

As a result HSBC had the information it needed to assess the risk of financing Huawei.

The allegation is one of three lines of attack the Huawei chief financial officer’s lawyers plan to pursue in the coming months to convince the British Columbia Supreme Court justice overseeing the case that Meng’s rights have been violated.

Meng was detained in December 2018 after flying to Vancouver from Hong Kong en route to a business conference in Latin America. She will also claim after she was arrested at Vancouver airport she was subject to a three-hour interrogation without lawyers.

The preliminary hearings today come ahead of a fuller hearing in February next year and will determine the legal defences that Meng’s lawyers will be entitled to mount to resist her extradition.

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