Wang Weijing
In 2021, Meng Wanzhou, who had been illegally detained by Canada for three years, re-embarked on Chinese soil. Her passionate speech at the airport made countless people feel emotional.
People may not know that another Huawei executive has the same experience as Meng Wanzhou.
His name was Wang Weijing, and he was imprisoned in Poland for three years and has not yet been freed.
Brilliant resume
In January 2019, Polish media released news that the relevant departments found that Piot, a Polish citizen, had some kind of "special transaction" with Chinese citizens, suspected of espionage.
In order to maintain the national security of Poland, the government ordered the arrest of the two men.
Poland did not disclose information about the Chinese citizens, and the deputy head of the Polish Special Affairs Office only said vaguely:
"This Chinese citizen works for a large electronics company and is a businessman."
Later, it was confirmed that the "large electronics company" in the Polish population was China's Huawei company. The Chinese citizen arrested is Huawei employee Wang Weijing.
Born in 1981, Wang Weijing was an outstanding student at the University of Foreign Chinese in Beijing.
After graduating from university, Wang Weijing went to the University of Lodz in Poland to study Polish.
In 2005, because Wang Weijing was a Chinese and familiar with Polish, she was hired by Asia Cosmetics Co., Ltd. as a foreign trade specialist.
The following year, Wang Weijing returned to China as a salesman. During her career experience, Wang Weijing accumulated a lot of experience.
By chance, Wang Weijing became a consular attaché of the Chinese Consulate in Poland and officially entered the career path.
Just when everyone thought that Wang Weijing would achieve more in the political field, he made a surprising decision.
In 2011, Wang Weijing left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and accepted the invitation of Huawei to become the public relations director of Huawei's branch in Poland.
As early as 2008, Huawei's business in Europe gradually expanded, in order to better serve Central and Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Huawei decided to set up the nordic headquarters in Warsaw, Poland.
Poland carries Huawei's hopes in Europe, and the company attaches great importance to it and has been actively looking for talents.
Wang Weijing once had a beautiful sales resume in Poland, served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for several years, and also established a reputation and stable network in Poland.
Because of this, Wang Weijing has become the best candidate for Huawei.
It turns out that Huawei's choice is not wrong. After Wang Weijing entered Huawei's Polish branch, sales performance has greatly improved, and in 2017, Huawei's sales volume in Central and Eastern Europe directly surpassed Apple's mobile phones.
At the same time, in Hungary, the Czech Republic and other countries, Huawei also occupies a huge market.
The brilliance of Huawei's branch is inseparable from Wang Weijing's running around. In view of his good performance, the company was promoted to sales director.
No one expected that in 2019, the relevant Polish departments, without warning, directly detained Wang Weijing.
Since then, a large number of mysterious events have followed.
"False espionage" charges
It turned out that before Wang Weijing was arrested, he had met with Piot, deputy director of the Polish Telecommunications Bureau. Piot and Wang Weijing met in 2013, when Piot was an official at the Polish Telecommunications Agency.
Piot and Wang Weijing, there are many intersections in work, and their personalities are also very compatible, and the two gradually establish a deep friendship in daily communication.
As a Chinese, Wang Weijing had a difficult life in Poland, his wife was pregnant, his mother-in-law was ill, and he fell into the most confused and helpless moment of his life.
When Piot learned of this, he introduced the best doctor to Wang Weijing, and Wang Weijing was deeply moved.
Later, Piot wanted to find a qualified Chinese teacher for his son, and Wang Weijing also recommended his friend to him. At that time, Piot and Wang Weijing were brothers who supported each other in times of suffering.
Wang Weijing would not have thought that it was this brother who pushed himself into the bottomless abyss.
Later, because of the job transfer, Piot left Poland to work for the French telecommunications company. As for the specific work piot is engaged in, the confidential information involved in it, Wang Weijing does not know anything.
Soon after, however, Polish intelligence discovered that Piot was suspected of leaking Polish secrets.
The Polish Internal Security Service immediately launched an investigation, and soon after, intelligence discovered that Piot and Wang were close. It was later confirmed that Wang Weijing had worked at the Chinese Embassy in Poland.
Yes, the Polish department suspected that Wang Weijing was an intelligence officer, and through the identity of a Huawei employee, infiltrated Poland and stole Polish state secrets with Piot.
This is a slander made out of nothing, and Wang Weijing, who is implicated by the so-called friends, is even more innocent.
After being detained by the Polish state authorities, Wang Weijing actively cooperated with all investigations in order to prove her innocence.
According to Polish law, if the relevant departments did not collect evidence that Wang Weijing was a spy within three months, they could not prosecute him.
Three months later, Wang, with the help of a team of lawyers, applied for bail from the Polish authorities.
The crowd did not expect that Poland would violate the principle and directly reject Wang Weijing's request.
At the same time, Poland also gave a very perfunctory reason: Wang Weijing may leave Poland with Polish state secrets.
Wang Weijing is just an ordinary employee, so why steal state secrets?
Despite being rejected several times, Wang Weijing's team did not give up and continued to appeal.
During this period, Wang Weijing was under double pressure of physical and psychological pressure. Before the authorities released Wang Weijing, he remained in the detention center, which was completely closed, dull, dark, and without freedom.
At the same time, Wang Weijing's family is also suffering. After learning that Wang Weijing was detained, his wife took her mother and children and rushed to Poland.
Since 2019, thousands of days and nights, Wang Weijing's wife has always lived in anxiety.
The Polish detention center only allows Wang Weijing's family to visit once a month, and because of Wang Weijing's "special status", every time he talks to his family, Polish staff are on the scene, monitoring and listening.
Seeing Wang Weijing's increasingly emaciated body, his wife could only endure the pain in her heart and constantly comfort and encourage her from the side.
Meanwhile, outside the detention center, Wang's lawyers and family have been traveling from place to place, collecting information and proving their innocence.
In 2020, nearly two years after Wang Weijing was arrested, the State Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, Poland, filed a lawsuit with the court on the grounds that Wang Weijing and Piot endangered national security.
At this time, it has far exceeded the three-month deadline set by Poland, and it is obvious that the Polish department has carried out a disgraceful black box operation in Wang Weijing's investigation.
In 2021, the Polish state department still has not found evidence that Wang Weijing is a spy, but still has not let go.
However, Piot, a Polish citizen who paid only 120,000 Polish roots, was granted bail and retired.
As the minutes and seconds passed, the Warsaw District Court in Poland could only agree to Wang Weijing's bail request. Everyone in Wang Weijing's team breathed a long sigh of relief.
However, just two months later, the nightmare struck again. The Polish National Security Agency personally intervened to control Wang Weijing again, hoping that he would continue to cooperate with the relevant departments in the investigation and evidence collection.
For Wang Weijing's encounter in Poland, local lawyer Jankowski was also very helpless. Although Jankowski is Polish, he is highly professional.
Since accepting Wang Weijing's commission, Jankovsky has been doing his best.
"The evidence gathered so far by the Polish Security Service confirms my client's position that he is innocent and that the allegations are absurd," Jankowski said.
Poland has exhausted its national strength, but it is still unable to convict, which proves Wang Weijing's innocence from the side.
All along, he was not a "spy", just an ordinary person working abroad. Poland's painstaking accusations are a disaster, and even more unjustified.
Peeling back the cocoon, there are many doubts
Wang Weijing obeyed the law and the evidence was overwhelming, but Poland still did not forgive, and everyone was puzzled.
It is clear that Poland deliberately delays time and is suspected of deliberate provocation. What are the hidden reasons behind the Wang Weijing incident?
Later, the behavior of the Polish national intelligence agencies made everyone see the clues.
After wang Weijing's arrest, Zary, a spokesman for Polish intelligence, posted a message on social media and "shared" it with many official departments such as the US CIA, FBI and US State Department.
Soon after, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence personally posted a message on social networking sites praising the Polish government's actions.
After the United States came forward, the Wang Weijing incident became even more confusing.
In fact, historically, Poland's relations with the United States have always been very close. As a European country belonging to the same Slavic ethnic group as Russia, Poland has always regarded Russia as a fierce enemy and turned to the embrace of the United States.
In order to please the United States, Poland has repeatedly issued "invitations" to it to garrison troops, and is even willing to provide related expenses for the US troops. At the same time, Poland also allowed the United States to deploy missile defense systems.
Poland openly announced in public that it had arrested Wang Weijing, as if it were "sending a message" to the United States.
President of Poland: Andrey Duda
In this way, people can't help but think of the Meng Wanzhou incident that year. Although Meng Wanzhou, who also belongs to Huawei, was arrested in Canada, all his encounters were at the behest of the United States.
Obviously, the United States, which has great relations with Poland, also played the role of the main messenger behind the Scenes in the Wang Weijing incident.
Soon after, relevant Polish personnel also announced a resolution on the handling of China's Huawei company: nato has many concerns about Huawei.
According to Poland, members of the EU and NATO countries will discuss and form a unanimous resolution on Wang Weijing.
As soon as this remark came out, it further verified the speculation of many people: behind Wang Weijing's arrest, not only Poland is pushing.
The ultimate goal of countries such as the United States is obvious. Their target is not Wang Weijing, but Huawei.
Manipulating Huawei employees as an excuse to suppress the 5G cause led by China's Huawei is probably the ultimate goal of the United States.
At the same time, Poland is willing to cooperate with the United States, and naturally can also get certain benefits from the Wang Weijing incident.
Since entering the Polish market in 2004, Huawei has been making great strides. In 2017, Huawei shipped millions of units in Central and Eastern Europe, accounting for 12% of the entire Central and Eastern European market, second only to Samsung.
This is not a good phenomenon for Poland, the main force in Central and Eastern Europe. While Huawei has a vast market in Europe, Poland's local mobile phone manufacturing brands have been greatly impacted.
At the same time, Poles believe that Huawei is everywhere in Poland and poses a serious threat to national security.
Poland arrested Wang Weijing, as if to use this as an excuse to contradict Huawei, and then justifiably "invited" Huawei out of the European market.
Where does the future go?
Considering various factors, the Wang Weijing incident is by no means just a commercial event. Now that Meng Wanzhou has returned to China, Wang Weijing is still detained in Poland, and the case has not been properly resolved.
Where does Wang Weijing's future go?
According to the relevant personnel, the Polish department did not find evidence that Wang Weijing was a "spy", so the relevant departments could only temporarily arrest him.
If Poland finds the charges, Ms. Wang faces 10 years in prison. Obviously, Wang Weijing could not complete self-help on her own.
In fact, shortly after Wang Weijing's arrest, Huawei released an official announcement after an investigation and announced that it had terminated its labor contract with Wang Weijing.
Huawei's move seems to be somewhat intriguing.
In 2018, Huawei Meng Wanzhou was arrested, and in 2019, Wang Weijing was arrested, and the sensitivity of the time between the two cannot help but make people suspicious.
Due to the particularity of Meng Wanzhou's identity, she and Huawei cannot get rid of their relationship. It is precisely for this reason that Canada and the United States, under the pretext of Meng Wanzhou, have carried out all-round suppression of Huawei.
Nowadays, Wang Weijing is no longer an employee of Huawei, and the Wang Weijing incident is no longer a game between the United States and Huawei, from this point of view, the termination of the employment relationship between Huawei and Wang Weijing is the best way to protect him.
It is just that Poland and the United States are involved, and the Wang Weijing incident is complicated, and it is not easy to solve it completely.
However, the Chinese government has never given up on Wang Weijing.
After Poland announced the arrest of Wang Weijing, the Chinese Embassy contacted the Polish Embassy at the first time, put forward a request for consular visits, and began to investigate the Wang Weijing incident.
At the same time, the Chinese Embassy appealed to Poland: handle the case in accordance with the law, fairly and properly. Over the years, the Chinese government has been tracking the latest developments in the case and actively promoting it.
In fact, China has repeatedly asked Poland to provide proof of Wang Weijing's "spy" identity, but Poland has refused. Where Wang Weijing went was still unresolved.
Now Wang Weijing is still not free, the forces on all sides are still playing games, the mainland is actively advancing, and the only thing that everyone can do is to wait patiently. We believe that justice will be late, but it will never be absent.
Resources
[1] Global Times, Huawei employees spy in Poland? Logic doesn't make sense"
[2] CCTV News, "Foreign Ministry Responds to Previous Arrest of Huawei Employees in Poland: Demanding That the Polish Side Handle It Fairly and Properly In Accordance with the Law"
[3] China Economic Network, "Poland says espionage allegations involve personal behavior and have no direct connection with Huawei"
[4] China Youth Daily, Huawei Responds to Polish Employee Incident: Termination of Employment Relationship for Suspected Violation of Polish Law for Personal Reasons