After weeks of seeing the China-based tech giant he leads deal with a crushing wave of negative publicity, the billionaire founder and CEO of Huawei has broken his typical silence to give a rare and somewhat extraordinary interview.
Following the recent arrest in Canada of his daughter — Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou — ahead of presumed extradition to the US, not to mention the conventional wisdom that China uses the company’s mobile products as potential tools for spying, the businessman decided to fire back. “No law requires any company in China to install mandatory back doors,” CEO Ren Zhengfei said during remarks today. “I personally would never harm the interest of my customers and me and my company would not answer to such requests.”
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