On February 24th, Huawei announced his chairman Liang Hua's question and answer record in Toronto, Canada in Toronto, Canada on February 21.In response to the Meng Wanzhou case, Liang Hua said that based on the so -called violation of relevant US sanctions laws, it is very rare to accuse and arrest a company's senior management and arrest. He cannot say that the Meng Wanzhou incident is not politically driven.
This is after Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was detained in Canada, and Huawei Management was the first time in Canada to openly interviewed media interviews.
On December 1, 2018, at the United States request, Meng Wanzhou was detained by the Canadian police while turning in Canada.Since then, on December 7, December 10, and December 11, after three bail hearing, the judge made a bail decision after listening to the opinions of both parties.
On January 28, the U.S. government formally submitted an extradition application to Canada, asking Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to be extradited to the United States for trial.The Canadian Ministry of Justice will decide before March 1 that whether to continue the extradition process, Meng Wanzhou will also attend the bail hearing again on March 6.
Liang Hua said on the Meng Wanzhou incident that she believed that Meng Wanzhou was innocent, and also hoped that the Canadian judicial system could return her justice as soon as possible, restore her personal freedom, and let her reunite with her family.
He also said that Huawei would not change its R & D investment strategy in Canada because of the Meng Wanzhou case.On the contrary, because the United States now prohibits Huawei from transferring certain technologies, Huawei plans to transfer some research projects from the United States to Canada to strengthen research cooperation with Canadian universities.
On January 10, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US Department of Commerce decided in June 2018 that on the grounds of national security, the export license of Huawei US branch will no longer renewed, which meansExit to Shenzhen Headquarters.Huawei wrote to the United States in July 2018 that it would move the R & D power to the United States if he did not give its export permit.
The reason why we increase in R & D and investment in Canada is that Canada does have talent advantages in many fields such as artificial intelligence, basic algorithms, and fiber.Liang Hua said that in the past ten years, we have invested more than $ 500 million in R & D in Canada, and invested $ 137 million in 2018 alone.
At present, the United States is refusing Huawei to enter on the grounds of national security, and tries to influence telecommunications operators in other countries to encourage them not to choose Huawei in 5G bidding.One of the most typical events is that on February 11, when the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech at the first stop of the trip to Europe, he shouted for security considerations and asked for the next generation of wireless networks.That is, Huawei is excluded in 5G construction.Pompeo warned that Huawei had the risk of threatening privacy protection and cyber security.If European countries continue to cooperate with Huawei, the United States may have to reduce cooperation with these countries accordingly.
The Canadian government is also evaluating whether Huawei is allowed to participate in its 5G construction.Liang Hua said that no matter how the Canadian government decides, it hopes to be based on technical considerations, not other factors. Even if the Canadian government decides to exclude Huawei to participate in 5G, Huawei will continue to serve local customers better on other products.
According to Liang Hua, in 2018, Huawei's sales revenue in Canada was about 420 million US dollars, of which about 270 million US dollars in operators, and about $ 150 million in mobile terminal business.
Forbidden or can't help but be the choice of government and customers.Huawei cannot serve all markets around the world.For our customers, we will definitely serve them.For those who have not chosen us, we regret that we have no chance to serve.He said.
He also said that regardless of the ban, Huawei's strategy of R & D investment in Canada and the strategy of cooperating with universities will not change.At present, the cooperation model of the two sides is: articles, papers and other copyrights belong to the school. If patents are generated, Huawei is shared with colleges and universities.
Liang Hua believes that the outside world exaggerates the difficulties that Huawei has encountered now. On the one hand, only the United States and Australia in the world have clearly stated that Huawei is excluded from its 5G construction. On the other hand, Huawei still plans to achieve 1254 in 2019 1254The sales revenue of about 100 million US dollars increased by 15%to 20%year -on -year.
In my opinion, (what happened recently) has no negative impact on our company's reputation, which is actually free to advertise Huawei for free.Now that the world knows that the United States is calling on its allies to suppress and crowd out Huawei.Everyone in the world knows Huawei, and such a powerful country in the United States is very concerned about Huawei.He said.
According to Caixin reporters, from December 2018, Huawei launched a project that enhanced the company's global reputation internally. Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, led himself.On December 18, 2018, Huawei's rotating chairman Hu Houkun took the lead in an interview with international media. Ren Zhengfei also rarely accepted a global media interview five times in the past two months (see Ren Zhengfei, the 04th report of Caixin Weekly 2019, Ren Zhengfei answered everything)EssenceLiang Hua's interview in Canada is also part of this project.
At the same time, in response to the network security of various countries, Huawei is also taking practical actions, including internal research and development, running information security laboratories in Germany, and cooperating with the government to conduct network security assessment.
Under a series of measures, many countries have soothed their attitudes towards Huawei.On February 19, New Zealand Prime Minister Adon stated that Huawei was never excluded from the construction of 5G networks in New Zealand.On February 20, Ciaran Martin, CIARAN MARTIN, a British National Network Security Center, said in a speech at Brussels, Belgium that the risks brought by Huawei were controllable.On February 21, US President Trump also said on social networking sites that he hoped that the United States would win through competition in 5G instead of blocking the current most advanced technology outside the country.
