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3. "It’s a growing concern whether or not Canada is equipped to combat this level of interference from the Chinese Communist Party,” @chercywong said. “We are being threatened and harassed. So giving Huawei control of the internet means everything we do will be monitored."
4. “The best way to describe it is between a nation-state, industry and organized crime, there is cooperation to the point of collaboration and collusion. Spying on Nortel became a requirement that satisfied everyone in that community.”
5. “What is missing in the Nortel story is exploring the relationship that has been flagged about all those [Nortel] leaders going to China for decades,” Juneau-Katsuya said. “I am confident you can see relationships where the United Front will appear in the Nortel case.”
6. "Nortel is one of those situations, where Canada had the lead internationally, and we let it go. Why? For one, there were forces within the Canadian government. And Huawei received billions from their government ... "
7. "So if I invest billions into you, I will expect to control that operation. And Huawei’s founder is from the PLA. So he knows how to follow orders. So I will make you very rich, and I will give you intelligence support, and I will assist in stealing information.”
8. Not everyone believes Chinese cyberwar is responsible for Nortel's demise. A University of Ottawa study disregarded hacking and found it was extremely bad management inside Nortel (the company stopped making tech needed by clients) that put the Canadian telecom giant down.
9. And responding to questions from Global News, a Huawei spokesman pointed to the 2014 University of Ottawa study.
9. An author told me the study was informed of hacking inside Nortel but judged it inconsequential. In my view, with the FBI's 2020 indictment, you could argue the study missed the major potential factor of Chinese espionage helping in the demise of numerous companies.
10. “There have been suggestions in the media that Chinese or other foreign espionage agents penetrated internal Nortel networks and computers in order to acquire technology and strategic information and that such action contributed to the downfall of the company," study said.
11. “We found no evidence of this and consider it unlikely.”
12. Brian Shields says he agrees about bad management -- he experienced that directly when managers discounted the need for cybersecurity. But he says China evidently was attacking Nortel more persistently than all other telecoms, for strategic reasons, not just Nortel's lead
13. in 3G, 4G and 5G, but because Nortel did not have the government protection that strategically important US companies could rely on (and RCMP doesn't have FBI counter=intelligence power) Nortel was not only the world leader, but the low-hanging fruit for China, Shields says.
14. “You could have put Steve Jobs in to run Nortel. But if you are up against a nation-state, Nortel would have failed, without Canadian government intervention,” Shields said.
“Canadians just don’t realize the extent of the Chinese government’s involvement in this thing.”
“Canadians just don’t realize the extent of the Chinese government’s involvement in this thing.”
