They were never just another phone company. Their ties to the Chinese government were never a secret.

If the US government partnered with a US company founded by former Defense Department people to build a product called Freedom Fone using mostly open source software, would you trust it?

Strange then that Huawei wanted to sell itself to Motorola.

I believe that's as likely as Foxconn actually fulfilling their end of the deal in Wisconsin.

A lot of open source American tech has roots in NSA and other agencies. Signal and Tor are good examples, yet people seem to trust them.

The operations of a company with size and might of Huawei in China is nothing like the operations of big European or American companies. The Chinese government is very involved. They have offices in the company. Do you think Signal has a government representative on site all the time?

Large American corps spend a lot on lobbying. Its not really different. Also I seem to remember that the CIA's investment company was one of the early investors in Google.

It's entirely different because the direction of control is in the opposite direction. There's nothing comparable at Google to the Communist Party's role in managament decisions at companies like Huawei.

> The Chinese government is very involved. They have offices in the company. Source? that's quite bizarre to believe.