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by dnomad 2772 days ago
> At the end of the day, you have a company with strong links (down to its founder) to the military

This sort of pure propaganda just undermines your case. The founder of Huawei was never more than a low level engineer in the military, was forbidden from joining the CCP for many years [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhengfei

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> was forbidden from joining the CCP for many years

He was banned and then “selected as a delegate from PLA to attend the National Science Conference” all before founding Huawei.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhengfei