‘CLOSE ATTENTION’: The Presidential Office said the administration of President Tsai Ing-wen is not using any equipment that might be a threat to national security
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 11, 2018
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Any equipment made by Huawei Technologies Co (華為) or ZTE Corp (中興) is to be
Minister Without Portfolio Wu Tze-cheng, who chairs the Public Construction Commission, speaks at a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Transportation Committee in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
quickly eliminated after a review of past government procurement cases, Minister Without Portfolio Wu Tze-cheng (吳澤成), who chairs the Public Construction Commission, said yesterday.
Wu made the statement at a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee, which was reviewing the commission’s budget for fiscal 2019.
Taiwan in 2013 banned the use of core telecoms equipment manufactured by Chinese companies, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said on Saturday, after US magazine The National Interest reported on the risks that such equipment could pose to Taiwan’s security.
The magazine cited Kitsch Liao (廖彥棻), a Taiwan-based cybersecurity specialist, as saying that Huawei has built backdoors into its hardware that serve as a dual threat to communications, enabling both espionage and sabotage. [FULL STORY]
