Li Hongyuan incident
Details of the detention were revealed in late November 2019,[not verified in body] leading to criticism of Huawei and Chinese law enforcement authorities, while the Communist Youth League of China and Chinese left-wing nationalists blamed the incident on the United States.
Li Hongyuan joined Huawei's Hangzhou branch in October 2005 after he left Zhejiang Juhua Co., Ltd., a chemical industry company in Quzhou, China.
On 8 March Li travelled to Huawei's headquarter in Shenzhen to pick up the payment, which was transferred from a private bank account of the manager He's secretary Zhou.
On 16 December 2018 the local police department in Shenzhen compulsorily summoned Li for an investigation on embezzlement as a result of Huawei's complaint reports.
[3] Li said the police officers then questioned him on some issues of breach of confidenciality when he was detained for the criminal investigations.
The Public Security Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality eventually accused Li of coercing the human resource manager He for the payment of 300 thousand yuan.
A post titled "an open letter to Ren Zhengfei from Li Hongyuan" was uploaded onto Huawei's internal forum.
Li said during interviews on 2 December that his intention was not to create a public-relations storm but to have a dialogue with Huawei, who had refused to talk with him since his release.
[3][8][9] Nevertheless, the interviews were taken down[11] after the following statement from Huawei:[12]It is the company's right and duty to report any suspected illegal activities to the law enforcing authorities.
Huawei respects the decisions made by the authorities, including the Public Security Bureau, the Prosecutorate, and the Court of Law.
Nonetheless, Li believed the company could not grow healthy on the current path so he wanted a conversation with Ren Zhengfei.
[17] On 9 December Li Hongyuan claimed on Weibo that the Public Prosecutorate of Shenzhen Municipality was building a case against the false accusation, perjury, dereliction of duty, and malfeasance in the incident.
The Paper, a digital news outlet in Shanghai commented in an editorial that "Huawei Wolf" and "996" working hours represent the culture of efficiency first which is no longer suitable for the era.
[11] The Financial Times in London quoted a labour lawyer Pang Kun that the authorities are paying much more attention on Huawei instead of the employees due to its great strength and influence.
[23] In an editorial on the Southern Metropolis Daily in Guangzhou, the law enforcing authorities were criticised that had the false accusations by Huawei not been investigated properly, the public power would lose its credits day by day,[24] Chinese left-wing nationalists blamed Huawei's global competitors and the United States of America for using this incident as an excuse for attack.
Hu Xijin, the chief editor of nationalist Global Times supported Huawei's statement.
The article believed this incident is a result of paid cyber attacks from the United States and Huawei's competitors including Zhihu.
[29][30] The Communist Youth League of China also reposted an article by Housha on 6 December entitled "VOICE: Huawei had been bombarded by thousands of guns overnight, but the attacker's fox tails were exposed immediately”.
The article called on the people who care about “Li X-yuan” to have patience and not to be misled by American spies and news outlets.
