"Huawei hampers U.S. efforts to spy on whomever it wants," the company's rotating chairman Guo Ping claimed in the Financial Times in February. "The more Huawei gear is installed in the world’s telecommunications networks, the harder it becomes for NSA to ‘collect it all’." At the time, the suggestion was that this was a straightforward argument. Huawei, the company's leaders claimed, would not collaborate with any country's intelligence agencies on back doors and collection, and so "if the US can keep Huawei out of the world’s 5G networks by portraying us as a security threat, it can retain its ability to spy on ... (full story)