Huawei is far from the only company doing this. “The [CCP’s] organization department found that 68% of China’s non-state enterprises had set up party cells by the end of 2016,” explains a 2018 article in the South China Morning Post. “The proportion is higher in large-scale internet companies. Nearly all of China’s listed internet firms have set up party committees. Senior executives were appointed to serve simultaneously as leader of the party organization.”
There are many reasons why it’s hard to take Huawei seriously when they insist that they will not use their technology to do the bidding of the authoritarian leaders in Beijing and are therefore not national security threats to Western nations. But the existence of these party cells is perhaps the most visible.
What is the point of having a government cell meeting room in your office if for no other reason than to discuss how to further the Chinese Communist government’s values and objectives in the workplace? It seems like a no-brainer that whatever interactions the Canadian government and telecommunications sector has with such a company should be kept to a minimum and done, if at all, with great caution.
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