Huawei reportedly furloughs Russian staff and stops taking orders
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/04/13/huawei_may_quit_russia/
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"There are no orders, so why should people go to the office – in a month the vacation will either be extended, or employees will be returned from it," an anonymous source [1]told Forbes Russia .
The business mag also reported that Chinese nationals working for Huawei Russia are still going to the office.
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Forbes's account agrees with a report in Russian publication [3]Izvestia which claimed that Huawei ceased new contracts to supply Russian mobile operators in early April. The news outlet credited the freezing of sales to US sanctions that prohibit export of certain American technology to Russia. The bans on such exports were imposed on Russia as punishment for its illegal invasion of Ukraine.
[4]Pony Ma tells employees Tencent is ordinary and replaceable in company meeting
[5]Chinese tech minister says he's 'dealt with' 73,000 sites that breached the law
[6]Expect 'long tail of cyber retaliation' from Russia for sanctions, says ExtraHop CEO
[7]US imposes sanctions as Russia invades Ukraine
US authorities have [8]warned Chinese companies not to help Russia evade sanctions and reminded the world that it can also impose "secondary sanctions" on Chinese companies that flout the sanctions imposed on Russia.
Huawei knows how much US sanctions can hurt: they've already damaged its smartphone business and made its server business so difficult it had to be offloaded.
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If Huawei has furloughed staff, El Reg suggests its HR team is among those taking an unplanned holiday – because the company is still advertising for workers in Moscow. At the time of writing, LinkedIn [10]lists a dozen jobs in the Russian capital – among them a gig as OS Kernel Chief Architect on Huawei's IoT operating system, pre-sales professionals, and even a design engineer skilled in field programmable gate arrays and application-specific integrated circuits that will find their way into its fiber optic comms devices.
The Register contacted Huawei for comment, but had not received a reply at the time of publication. ®
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[1] https://www.forbes.ru/tekhnologii/461929-huawei-otpravil-cast-sotrudnikov-rossijskogo-ofisa-v-otpusk-na-mesac
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YlafVJ@kXEgK8EefNID6WwAAAEI&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[3] https://iz.ru/1314179/valerii-kodachigov/kitaiskoe-predubezhdenie-huawei-otkazalas-ot-novykh-kontraktov-v-rf
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/13/pony_ma_tells_employees_tencent/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/18/china_tech_crackdown_impact/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/31/extrahop_russian_sanctions/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/23/us_sanctions_russia/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/us_warns_chinese_chipmakers/
[9] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YlafVJ@kXEgK8EefNID6WwAAAEI&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[10] https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/huawei-jobs-moscow/?trk=amworks_jserp_redirect
[11] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Tautology is a more accurate description than oxymoron, which is the exact opposite.
I thought the 'moron contained a contradiction, like cheerful pessimism (or so google tells me) whereas a tautology means redundancy.
I am no the grammar police, but as Dave Barry said, "I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: "Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America," or "Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II."
Word can KILL.
I know Word is bad, but I didn't realize it's THAT bad . . .
I broke a nail on a badly formatted WordPerfect file back in '98 - still have flashbacks
Illegal as in without UN Security Council approval.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1115592
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_Iraq_War
Here's a 2015 piece discussing some conflicts and UN approval or lack thereof.
https://theweek.com/articles/460549/does-un-ever-actually-war
The Register contacted Huawei for comment, but had not received a reply at the time of publication.
I guesss the PR staff are also on furlough at the moment...
No, but the company still has aspirations to be like Apple.
Russia is a small market, probably not worth the risk
I've said it before, let's not forget that Russia is a small market. It might have an enormous land mass (the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,192 km2, and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area, according to Wikipedia), it has only 145 million inhabitants.
Its economy is slightly larger than that of Spain but the Russian people are 70% poorer than the Spanish people. There is only one EU country with a poorer population than Russia and that is Bulgaria. Moreover, these economic figures are from before some of the harshest economic sanctions the world has ever seen. The Russian economy never really recovered from the sanctions post the annexation of Crimea and those were peanuts compared with the current sanctions. The ruble currency is being propped up artificially but they can't keep that up for much longer and every time the capital controls are eased slightly we see signs of capital flight. Russia is suffering a big brain drain at the moment as educated people are leaving the country to Turkey, Armenia and Georgia.
Regardless of how much the Chinese government wants to maintain a relationship with Russia on a political level, as a Chinese company it is playing with fire to keep doing business with such a small, and submerging, market if the risk is losing custom in the richest parts of the world, Europe and North America.
Today furloughed, tomorrow conscripted.
I understand the sentiment, but "illegal invasion" has always struck me as a sort of oxymoron... As of there were laws regulating such things.