Like ZTE, Huawei has been shunned by officials, so the former is leaving

Dec 3, 2013 10:53 GMT  ·  By

Security can be a real pain, especially when another country's government is trying to spy on you and, unfortunately, this can reflect badly on those associated with the one doing the snooping, as Huawei is now experiencing for itself.

Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei has rather stiltedly announced that Huawei is exiting the US market because of all the snubbing it has been suffering.

Those interested in the spy games on an international level might have learned about all the scandals related to the US government and US companies being spied on by the Chinese.

Obviously, no one is admitting to anything, but this hasn't stopped some US officials and tech executives from shunning Huawei, and ZTE for that matter.

Both those companies are believed to have close ties to the Chinese government, more than their status as corporations warrant anyhow.

Thus, they are believed to have been complicit to the illicit activities of those in charge of their country. Or, well, alleged activities.

Huawei decided that it was way past the time where it still deserved to deal with all this flak, so it rather emphatically stated its intention to just leave the US.

After all, the only reason to think Huawei, or ZTE for that matter, are a security threat is that they are Chinese.

That's borderline racism, or rather ethnicism, but it didn't stop US companies from dropping contract due to pressure from Washington in recent years.

Huawei hasn't pulled out of the US yet, and hasn't begun anything too drastic either, but it does intend to follow through on its threat if the situation isn't remedied.

“If Huawei gets in the middle of U.S-China relations, it’s not worth it,” CEO Ren Zhengfei told the French media. “Therefore, we have decided to exit the U.S. market, and not stay in the middle.”