Huawei has repeatedly denied claims that the Chinese government would be able to spy on other nations if the firm was placed within international 5G infrastructure.
The company was not immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC, but Dennis Zuo, head of Huawei’s operations in Germany, told the Handelsblatt newspaper on Tuesday that Chinese espionage through its 5G equipment was not possible.
“The state does not have a stake in Huawei and it keeps out of our business,” he said.
Meanwhile, Huawei founder and chief executive Ren Zhengfei told the BBC on Tuesday there was “no way the U.S. can crush us.”
“The world cannot leave us because we are more advanced. Even if they persuade more countries not to use us temporarily, we can always scale things down a bit,” he said.
Superfast 5G mobile internet is expected to revolutionize the digital economy by enabling new technologies such as self-driving cars and the internet of things. But it’s also been pitched as a battle for dominance between the U.S. and China.
On Sunday, a former U.S. national security advisor told CNBC that America is lagging behind China in promoting its 5G technologies across the world.
“In the marketing of it we are behind,” General James Jones told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble. “You can either go for the cheap, seductive but extremely vulnerable system that will take all of your privacy, your intellectual property and your secrets back to Beijing. Or you can invest a little bit more money and have a more secure society,” he said.
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