Blighty wants to ‘strengthen links’ with Huawei via the begging bowl

John Whittingdale, the UK's Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, has indicated Blighty would like more cash from Chinese kit maker Huawei after its current £1.3bn investment pot runs dry in 2017. Speaking at Huawei's annual summer bash at Whitehall's Banqueting Hall, he suggested the UK would be keen to have its …

[Antonymous Coward]

Made this commentard smile

Ken Hu, rotating chief executive of Huawei, said: "We have a special relationship with the UK and a strong and successful friendship."

Very thoughtfully phrased.

;o)

[grantpe]

Filtering

It'll be handy partnership for when the UK gov. decide to implement internet censorship - sorry, I mean madatory filtering 'to protect the children'.

[JaitcH]

Given the badmouthing HuaWei received from Obama ...

Cameron seems to be adopting a very independent stance.

[NeilMc]

mmmmmm really!!!

Spooks and UK Govt hardly gonna fess up if they found any backdoors in Huawei's kit.

Chinese could be using Broadband investment to hack VoiP systems as per previous article and well documented Chinese cyber warfare group. Coincidence?

Chinese have no sense of Intellectual Property and don't respect it as evidenced by the blatant rip off of Range Rover Evoke in china called the Landwind...... So be careful how much investment we take for R&D projects

Trust in earned not bought!!!!