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Theres a lot of evidence that they are state-owned. For example, a large number of board members being active in the CCP

• DiogenesKynikos 7y ago
  That has nothing to do with being state-owned. Lots of people in China are in the party. China has SOEs. It has private companies. They operate quite differently from one another. Huawei operates like one of the latter, and legally, definitely is one of the latter.
  • DeonPenny 7y ago
    The way you explain it makes it seem like we shouldn't trust any Chinese companies to be separate from the party so not sure what you were going for but it's had the opposite effect.
    • DiogenesKynikos 7y ago
      You shouldn't trust any company anywhere to be able to act entirely independently of the national intelligence apparatus. It's been established that many American tech companies cooperate with the NSA, for example. But Huawei is a private company. It will probably have to comply if the Chinese state forces it to (just like American companies have to silently comply if handed a National Security Letter), but it's not an arm of the government.