Telecom ZTE Corporation and Huewei (China) will attend a hearing in the presence of the Congress of the United States in September because of a series of related allegations about the risk of espionage aimed at the telecommunications infrastructure.
Selection Committee of the U.s. House of representatives on issues of intelligence sent invitations to ZTE Corporation President Hou Weigui and Vice Chairman of Huawei Ken Hu to attend a hearing, in order to clarify the relationship of the two corporations with Chinese authorities and many other related issues.
Mitchell Peterson, Vice President of ZTE USA, has confirmed the information on to the Western world.
Yes the housed in Shenzhen, China, ZTE is currently the producer and fifth largest telecommunications hardware in the world. While Huawei, also has its headquarters in Shenzhen, accounting second place after Ericsson of Sweden. Huawei does not put out any official confirmation of the Board of Directors will attend the hearing.
The U.s. House of representatives members, in their letter dated 12/6 requested the two companies listed above provide details and full interaction between them and the Chinese authorities over the past five years, especially the Ministry of defence and the Ministry of national security.
Accordingly, the selection Committee of the U.s. House of representatives on issues of intelligence was established to investigate "all threats to the critical infrastructure of the United States as well as Counterintelligence activities conducted by companies and enterprises acting as arms of the Government of China".
Earlier, the FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the ZTE, revolves around the company violated the ban on sale of details and components for telecommunications to Iran, along with it's attempt to cover-up the incident as well as to conduct an investigation of delay then the U.s. Department of Commerce 's.
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