As the eldest daughter of Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, and the person next in line to take over the company, Meng is of great importance to Beijing. “She knows a lot of secrets,” Xue said.

Huawei's Ties to Beijing Huawei was founded by Meng’s father, Ren Zhengfei, who is a former member of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

Founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a PLA veteran who came up through the ranks as a military IT researcher, Huawei has been losing the media warfare battle of late.

The Shenzhen-based company was founded by Ren Zhengfei, a former officer in China’s People’s Liberation Army.

State-Sponsored Strategy in Africa Huawei’s interest in doing business in Africa is driven by its founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei—a former Chinese army engineer who headed the General Staff Department’s Information Engineering Academy—and to a great extent

Ren Zhengfei, the founder of the company, was a former officer in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). He continues to run the company today.

Its founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei is a former People’s Liberation Army member, and China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law requires corporations, organizations, and citizens to aid in Chinese intelligence work when required to.

Ltd. founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested by Canadian authorities on charges that Huawei sold equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.

The previously unreported ties between Huawei and the two companies could bear on the U.S. case against Meng, who is the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, by further undermining Huawei's claims that Skycom was merely an arms-length business partner

On the U.S. side, it’s done by Trump’s tweets or through senior officials; on China’s side, it’s been voiced by the party mouthpieces such as the People’s Daily, Xinhua, and persons of interest like Ren Zhengfei, while the top leader and senior regime

Meng, the daughter of the telecom giant's founder Ren Zhengfei, was released on bail on a C$10 million ($7.5 million) bond and faces extradition to the United States.

Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei, whose daughter Meng Wanzhou is waiting to be extradited to U.S. on criminal charges, warned employees in late January that the company had to prepare for "times of hardship" as it faced increasing scrutiny from countries around

But the fact that she is the daughter of Huawei Chairman Ren Zhengfei wasn't publicly revealed until 2013—which drew speculation that she would succeed her father to take Huawei’s helm. Notably, Meng and Ren don't share the same surname.

Ren Zhengfei, the founder of the company, was a former officer in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). He continues to run the company today.

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei was a director of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The PLA is the attack force of the Chinese Communist Party; it’s not like a military force that just protects the public.

The CEO Ren Zhengfei has stated in reaction to these allegations that his company is planning to exit the U.S. market. On Nov. 25, Zhengfei told French journalists with Les Echos that it is “not worth it” to operate in the United States.  The U.S.

Huawei Technologies Co. is China's largest maker of telecommunications equipment, and was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former officer in the People's Liberation Army.

Do you think Ren Zhengfei can't be anti-corrupted, or anybody in China can't be essentially sequestered in a non-judicial way? Of course, that's their system. The sovereign in China is not the Chinese government.

The company is owned by former People's Liberation Army member Ren Zhengfei, who has never agreed to a media interview in China or abroad.

In 2000, Motorola and Shenzhen, China-based Huawei, set up by an ex-Chinese army officer Ren Zhengfei, entered into a commercial relationship during which Motorola resold certain Huawei products under the Motorola brand.

It sells everything from mobile mast radios to software, data-centres and laptop dongles Huawei is headed by a former Red Army engineer, Ren Zhengfei and has been accused of having links to China's military—the claim it denies.

Next: Comrade Ren Comrade Ren At the center of the controversy, but always in the shadows, is Ren Zhengfei, the founder.

Concerns about Huawei are bolstered in the minds of its critics by the fact that its founder, Ren Zhengfei, was an engineer for the PLA, and chairwoman Sun Yafang used to work for the Ministry of State Security (MSS).

For instance, Huawei, China’s largest supplier of networking and telecom equipment, was founded in 1988 by Ren Zhengfei, a former officer of the Communist Party’s People’s Liberation Army and a member of the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party