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Huawei reportedly selling beef it received as sanctions-evading payment

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54 pointsironyman13 comments

From the blog:

> But curious netizens logged into Huawei Moser Mall and found that Huawei not only sells beef, but also wine and a bunch of miscellaneous global agricultural products. All Huawei malls have quietly opened a food category at some point, in which beef and wine are standard.

From the About of wccf:

> Wccf (Where Consumers Come First) tech is a leading technology publication house

My guess it's not consumers but whose who pays WCCF.

And anyone else can just look it up themselves:

https://www.huaweimossel.com/food.htm

https://www.huaweimossel.com/wine.htm

Considering the biggest company on the US market was originally a book store...

Yes, but are you aware that it's an election year, and none of those easily confirmable details fan the flames of jingoism?

This probably says more about Argentinian currency than about Huawei.

This has been happening for a while. I've heard about it before (vaguely remember before sanctions), and I can find a news article mentioning this back in 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/19/companies... In the limited time I tried I haven't found when exactly the Mossel brand was established but it probably is a very old practice given how aggressively they pursued markets under dysfunctional governments.

Reminds me of the Pepsi navy.

For anyone wondering, PepsiCo has a very interesting history with Moscow.

> In 1989, PepsiCo Inc., the maker of Pepsi, acquired 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer from the Soviet Union.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/27/pepsi-navy-soviet-ussr/

Pepsi had a chance to kickstart the Snowcrash weirdo corporate microstate world and instead they sent their navy right to the scrappers. Cowards.

What’s hilarious is several years later, they gave themselves a headache with military hardware in a commercial, a Harrier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.

I mean . Was it going cheap? I wonder what the depreciation schedule is for submarines.

So cheap it didn't cost them a dime :P (They were scrap-metal payments in kind for Pepsi products, because the ruble was a closed currency and the soviets didn't have much foreign currency)

Super bad naming for a military force. "Pepsi" of all things. ;)

They try harder you know.

Is it at least USDA Prime or equivalent?

That seems like a very volatile currency to get paid in.

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