Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., scolded Sidley Austin for lobbying on...
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., scolded Sidley Austin for lobbying on behalf of the Chinese mobile device manufacturer Huawei, in a letter sent Monday. Wolf, the co-chair of the House human rights caucus, has been an ardent critic of the company…
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(CD March 21 p14) and said “there should be no question that the national security community actively considers Huawei a serious concern.” In particular Wolf accused the company of supporting “America’s greatest adversaries,” the Taliban, Iraq and Iran, and asked Sidley Austin Managing Partner Carter Phillips how he could represent a company “that has provided our enemies with equipment?” Huawei Vice President-External Affairs Bill Plummer said the company “appreciates Rep. Wolf’s geopolitical concerns, but objects to misrepresentations of Huawei, an independent multinational with well-respected and trusted global operations.”