Microsoft and Huawei Divest Company Partnership to Bypass Trump’s Sanctions Order

The National Pulse reported on April 22 that Microsoft, which has been facing massive hacking attacks from the Chinese Communist Party, is working with Honor Terminal Co. Honor Terminal was spun off from Huawei on Nov. 17, 2020, and just a month after the spinoff, Microsoft announced it would provide an operating system for Honor laptops.

Huawei, a company with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, has been heavily sanctioned by the Trump administration and called a “national security threat” by the U.S. Department of Defense, which often leaves backdoors in its products, networks and equipment for the Chinese Communist Party to exploit. The State Department also noted that Huawei is not only a “money-making tool, but also a tool to achieve the strategic goals of the Chinese Communist Party, which is deeply involved in a system of persecution in the country and has growing strategic ambitions globally.”

Although Rong Glory was spun off from Huawei, the company remains closely tied to the CCP, and among the parties that bought Glory for more than $15 billion was the CCP’s Shenzhen government. What’s more, the main purchaser, Digital China, still maintains close ties with Huawei through projects such as cloud computing.

By partnering with Glory, Microsoft has circumvented U.S. restrictions on technology companies working with the Chinese Communist Party.

Microsoft and the CCP have been entangled in many things for a long time. Microsoft created an operating system specifically for use by the CCP government, and attended meetings with CCP military proxies, as well as CCP state-owned technology companies.