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Huawei and Chinese Surveillance: Industry Complicity

🔍 The excerpt, from House of Huawei, recounts Wan Runnan’s experience as a celebrated 1980s entrepreneur who later fled China after supporting the 1989 pro‑democracy protests. At a late‑1980s dinner, local officials told him the Ministry of State Security planned to embed agents in tech firms under the pretext of protection, particularly in roles handling international relations. Wan reports that similar approaches were made to other companies and says Huawei, then a small Shenzhen startup, almost certainly would not have been exempt. He warns that telecommunications back‑end platforms are uniquely able to enable state eavesdropping, a rare public glimpse into intelligence ties with industry.