Bill plummer huawei biography
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WASHINGTON -- A longtime adviser to the U.S. Director of National Intelligence has resigned after the government learned he has worked since as a paid consultant for Huawei Technologies Ltd., the Chinese technology company the U.S. has condemned as an espionage threat, The Associated Press has learned.
Theodore H. Moran, a respected expert on China's international investment and professor at Georgetown University, had served since as adviser to the intelligence director's advisory panel on foreign investment in the United States. Moran also was an adviser to the National Intelligence Council, a group of 18 senior analysts and policy experts who provide U.S. spy agencies with judgments on important international issues.
Moran, who had a security clearance granting him access to sensitive materials, was forced to withdraw from those roles after Republican Rep. Frank Wolf complained in September to the intelligence director, James Clapper, that Moran's work on an international advi
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Review Huidu: Inside Huawei
Huidu: Inside Huawei
by William B. Plummer
William B. Plummer,
“I am no apologist for Huawei,” reads the latest blog brev of William B. Plummer, Huawei’s veteran President of External Affairs who separated from the company in April of By May, he had put tillsammans a page opus entitled Huidu: inre Huawei recounting musings and memories, annoyances and accomplishments, torturous times and takeaways from his tenure at the kinesisk telecom giant. Too off-the-cuff to offer a balanced perspective, Huidu provides a unique, unapologetic, and in this geopolitical climate helpful glimpse into the inner workings of a kinesisk tech firm American political elites love to hate. The book is self-published, and not a scholarly work per se, but would be of interest to anyone following recent US pushback to kinesisk foreign direkt investment and the ongoing US-China trade war, in which Huawei has been dubbed a pawn, sanction-violator, and doorway
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Huawei’s rapid growth, alleged theft helped sow seeds of mistrust in US
By Todd Shields / Bloomberg
Huawei Technologies Co wanted a better way to test its telephone handsets, so it sent an engineer to see “Tappy,” the robot in partner company T-Mobile US Inc’s laboratory in Bellevue, Washington.
“Tappy,” computer-driven and tireless, taps on touch screens, simulating weeks of use in a day. The Huawei engineer was curious about Tappy’s fingertips. So he slipped one into a laptop bag and left with it, in an act T-Mobile branded theft.
The incident, described in a lawsuit filed the next year by T-Mobile, is the sort of alleged behavior by China’s top telecommunications equipment maker that has alarmed security experts. Now some are warning against the use of Huawei gear in the next-generation 5G network being assembled to connect factories, vehicles, homes, utility grids and more.
“They’ve surpassed everyone else, and the way they’ve done that is through