With its plan to dominate the market for the back-end kit necessary for telecom firms to offer “fifth-generation” (5G) mobile-phone networks, Huawei is a key part of the “Made in China 2025” initiative to create leaders in cutting-edge industries. As a consequence, both of its success and its ambitions, it sits at the heart of a tangled web of Western worries about national security and China’s economic clout. An official at the European Commission warned of the possibility of malicious code built into its products that might funnel information back to Beijing—or even grant access to state-sponsored hackers.
身為「中國製造2025」 倡議中創造尖端產業領導者的關鍵角色,華為計劃主宰電信公司提供5G手機網路所必需的後端套件市場。其結果是,華為的成功與野心使其置身於西方國家擔憂國家安全與中國經濟影響力的糾結中心。一位歐盟委員會官員警告,華為產品中可能含有惡意代碼,會導致資訊被回傳北京──甚至能使中國網軍取得資料存取權限。