Huawei recently hired a top Washington public relations group to help it make its case in the US following months of media and political scrutiny for the Chinese company.
According to official filings, the Chinese telecoms equipment manufacturer last month hired Burson Cohn & Wolfe, whose chairman Don Baer is also the chairman of the US Public Broadcasting Service and a former aide to Bill Clinton.
BCW was hired alongside Racepoint Global, Huawei’s other US PR representative, to help formulate the company’s media strategy, for a one-off fee of $160,000, as part of a broader legal and media pushback against claims it poses a threat to American national security.