{"id":2969,"date":"2019-02-05T14:09:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T14:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2019-02-05T14:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T14:09:23","slug":"china-and-norway-face-off-over-ridiculous-claims-beijing-is-using-huawei-to-spy-on-scandinavian-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2019\/02\/05\/china-and-norway-face-off-over-ridiculous-claims-beijing-is-using-huawei-to-spy-on-scandinavian-host\/","title":{"rendered":"China and Norway face off over \u2018ridiculous\u2019 claims Beijing is using Huawei to spy on Scandinavian host"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Chinese embassy in Oslo hit back at Norwegian intelligence on Monday after the agency made \u201cridiculous\u201d accusations that Beijing spied on its Scandinavian host.INKSTONE: CHINA NEWS BRIEFINGGet updates direct to your inboxE-mail *By registering you agree to our T&Cs<\/a> & Privacy Policy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous for the intelligence service of a country to make a security assessment and attack China with a hypothesis,\u201d the embassy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement came after the Norwegian police intelligence agency PST, in its annual security evaluation, accused the Chinese government of stealing information from Norway\u2019s cyber domain through technology provided by Huawei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The embassy said Chinese law did not force companies to build \u201cmandatory back doors\u201d into networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie Benedicte Bj\u00f8rnland, PST chief, said Chinese law compelled individuals and private companies such as Huawei to cooperate with Chinese authorities, Norwegian media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone needs to pay attention to Huawei as a player in connection with the 5G network that will be built out,\u201d Bj\u00f8rnland said. \u201cHuawei as a company has apparently tight connections to Chinese authorities\u201d.  TOP ARTICLES1\/5READ MOREKansas man Raymond Soden, 67, solicited girls aged 13and 14 for sex via Facebook. But judge lessened his sentence because teens were \u2018aggressors\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denmark expels Huawei staff as Norway warns of espionage risk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justice Minister Tor Mikkel Wara announced measures to reduce the vulnerability of the Norwegian network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Norwegian coalition government will look at preventing Norway\u2019s largest mobile operators \u2013 Telenor, Telia and Ice \u2013 from choosing equipment suppliers such as Huawei whose servers were deemed a threat to national security, he said. Both Telenor and Telia used Huawei\u2019s mobile network systems for their 4G services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If the logic of the PST stood, the Chinese embassy said, then it could also be said that China was exposed to threats from Norway because Norway has the capability and the will to use such technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of China\u2019s state-run Global Times<\/em>, called on the Norwegian intelligence service to exercise \u201cself-respect\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Norwegian market is like a mosquito to China. What technology does it have? Norwegian intelligence service, have some self-respect,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norway considers excluding Huawei from 5G network, citing espionage fears<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norway is not the only country to have voiced concerns about the involvement of Chinese telecom companies in its networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Taiwan have blocked Huawei from taking part in development of their 5G telecoms networks for fear they may be left open to spying by China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, the European Union, Germany, its largest industrial power, and UK said they may exclude Huawei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese company has denied allowing Chinese authorities access to its hardware, software and networks and pledged to open a cybersecurity centre in Brussels, Belgium, in March to demonstrate its commitment to Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHuawei will never give any countries\u2019 authorities access to information,\u201d Tore Larsen Orderl\u00f8kken, security director for Huawei in Norway, told Norwegian newspaper DN<\/em>last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have no ties to Chinese authorities apart from having headquarters in China,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chinese embassy in Oslo hit back at Norwegian intelligence on Monday after the agency made \u201cridiculous\u201d accusations that Beijing spied on its Scandinavian host.INKSTONE: CHINA NEWS BRIEFINGGet updates direct to your inboxE-mail *By registering you agree to our T&Cs & Privacy Policy \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous for the intelligence service of a country to make a security assessment and attack China with a hypothesis,\u201d the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}