In a response to that story, Huawei's head of corporate communications responded with an e-mail defending the company's international credibility.

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"Most consumers use tablets for entertainment purposes such as gaming, viewing multimedia content, browsing the internet and reading e-books, " said Richard Yu, Chairman of Huawei Device.

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