A leading Chinese tech company plans to “learn from Apple” about how to safeguard customer information, the founder pledged, disputing Western suspicions that Chinese spy services loom over the corporation.

“We will learn from Apple,” Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei told reporters, according to the South China Morning Post. “We would rather shut Huawei down than do anything that would damage the interests of our customers in order to seek our own gains.”