<story><title>Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-probe-exclusive/exclusive-huawei-hid-business-operation-in-iran-after-reuters-reported-links-to-cfo-idUSKBN23A19B</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cgh</author><text>This is why Canada detained Huawei&amp;#x27;s CFO Meng Wanzhou. I&amp;#x27;m also guessing this news is why Telus, a major Canadian telco, just dropped Huawei for its 5G rollout and went with Ericsson instead. This is in line with other Canadian telcos and I believe the rest of the Five Eyes as well. Although didn&amp;#x27;t the UK flirt with Huawei for a while there?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tipsysquid</author><text>I believe it was this Marketplace podcast episode[0] that talks about the UK and their relationship with Huawei. 
If I can recall, the UK is tied tightly to Huawei across several industries, one including nuclear reactor&amp;#x2F;plant development that has been in on going for ages and involves packages of training lots of UK workers.&lt;p&gt;The podcast goes on to say that the UK is in a tough position because to break ties with any part of Huawei could have a chain reaction of cancellations&amp;#x2F;retaliations that could be extremely costly to UK in a time of uncertainty with Brexit and now covid-19. 
&amp;quot;Damned if they do, damned if they don&amp;#x27;t&amp;quot; was the general sentiment.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.marketplace.org&amp;#x2F;shows&amp;#x2F;marketplace&amp;#x2F;what-weighs-down-gdp&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.marketplace.org&amp;#x2F;shows&amp;#x2F;marketplace&amp;#x2F;what-weighs-do...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-probe-exclusive/exclusive-huawei-hid-business-operation-in-iran-after-reuters-reported-links-to-cfo-idUSKBN23A19B</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cgh</author><text>This is why Canada detained Huawei&amp;#x27;s CFO Meng Wanzhou. I&amp;#x27;m also guessing this news is why Telus, a major Canadian telco, just dropped Huawei for its 5G rollout and went with Ericsson instead. This is in line with other Canadian telcos and I believe the rest of the Five Eyes as well. Although didn&amp;#x27;t the UK flirt with Huawei for a while there?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>billfruit</author><text>How exactly does US sanctions restrict&amp;#x2F;constrain a Chinese or any other nationality company from doing business with Iran? Do China have sanctions on Iran?</text></comment>