Please provide evidence that China's military has a controlling interest in Huawei or ZTE. I suspect under your definition, Boeing, AT&T, Intel and a long list of US corporations would all fall in the US military controlling interest.
Below is the information regarding Huawei from Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei. Feel free to read the article in its entirety.
"Huawei also won a key contract to build the first national telecommunications network for the People's Liberation Army, a deal one employee described as "small in terms of our overall business, but large in terms of our relationships". In 1994, founder Ren Zhengfei had a meeting with Party general secretary
Jiang Zemin, telling him that "switching equipment technology was related to national security, and that a nation that did not have its own switching equipment was like one that lacked its own military." Jiang reportedly agreed with this assessment."
In China, you do NOT get that kind of deals with the Chinese government or with the Chinese military without some connections (connections that foreign companies usually pay BIG money for) with either the government or the Chinese military. And you simply do not just walk into the Chinese Congress and talk to the Party general secretary without some kind of "background". China is not like the West here where you can talk to any congressman, House of Representative, for your district and you make big enough donation, you get to have your moment with the head honcho because we operate in a democracy where we believe everybody is equal and politicians are really there to serve the people. Over there in China and in many of the countries in the East, it's a lot more hierarchical, the levels of people that you have to go through in order to talk to somebody that has some importance is astronomical. And mind you Huawei at that time was just a small company that's had some success. Small companies like Huawei at the time were dime a dozen and yet he gets to talk to the party general secretary which is like the No. 1 top leader of the country??!! And he did not have any special connections in the government or the military??
"Huawei's
Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer is Zhou Daiqi who is also Huawei's
Communist Party Committee Secretary."
This is one of the board of directors of Huawei and he is also the CEO of Huawei. This is like having Nancy Pelosi on the board of directors as well as the CEO in Johnson & Johnson. The only difference is Nancy Pelosi is at least elected by the people but Mr. Zhou is certainly not.
"Ren Zhengfei retains approximately 1 percent of the shares of Huawei's holding company, Huawei Investment & Holding, with the remainder of the shares held by a trade union
committee (not a
trade union per se, and the internal governance procedures of this committee, its members, its leaders or how they are selected all remain undisclosed to the public) that is claimed to be representative of Huawei's employee shareholders. The company's trade union committee is registered with and pay dues to the Shenzhen federation of the
All-China Federation of Trade Unions, which is controlled by the
Chinese Communist Party.
"About half of Huawei staff participate in this scheme (foreign employees are not eligible), and hold what the company calls "virtual restricted shares".
"Scholars have found that, after a few stages of historical morphing, employees do not own a part of Huawei through their shares. Instead, the "virtual stock is a contract right, not a property right; it gives the holder no voting power in either Huawei Tech or Huawei Holding, cannot be transferred, and is cancelled when the employee leaves the firm..."
Ren Zhengfei is the owner and founder of Huawei for those of you who are not familiar with Huawei. Even though Huawei is not technically owned by the CCP or the Chinese military but it in reality certainly is through this trade union committee that is directly controlled by the CCP which essentially owns 99% of the shares if the founder, Ren Zhengfei only owns 1% of the shares.
And one more piece of information: Wikipedia is banned in China.
