I've heard about the nortel hack from other sources, with the link to china being mentioned many times I've seen it. For example, here's some CBC reporting form 2012 that at least somewhat outside the current climate (https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nortel-collapse-linked-to-c...).
The big problem I have with the Bloomberg article, is it seems to really be trying to stretch the underlying information to draw the conclusion that Chinese Government or Chinese Hackers or Huawei are solely or the most responsible for the fall of Nortel.
Did Huawei benefit and get it's start from stolen IP is likely a compelling story to explore, with lots of compelling underlying facts. Does Huawei or China still do this, is probably another good question. To try and link these questions to the fall of nortel, while glossing over other massive contributors to nortel's fall leaves me skeptical of the narrative also.
It's disappointing, because I do believe there is plenty of compelling evidence around about Chinese IP theft, but reporting like this allows lots of noise to be mixed in, and for consumers of the information to reasonably be sceptical.
The big problem I have with the Bloomberg article, is it seems to really be trying to stretch the underlying information to draw the conclusion that Chinese Government or Chinese Hackers or Huawei are solely or the most responsible for the fall of Nortel.
Did Huawei benefit and get it's start from stolen IP is likely a compelling story to explore, with lots of compelling underlying facts. Does Huawei or China still do this, is probably another good question. To try and link these questions to the fall of nortel, while glossing over other massive contributors to nortel's fall leaves me skeptical of the narrative also.
It's disappointing, because I do believe there is plenty of compelling evidence around about Chinese IP theft, but reporting like this allows lots of noise to be mixed in, and for consumers of the information to reasonably be sceptical.