The Trump administration recently welcomed the growing success of Huawei’s isolation. (File)
Beijing:
Beijing criticized the US crackdown on Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei on Thursday as a “dirty game” and undermined Washington’s own human rights record by pointing to racism in the United States.
Beijing’s decline came a day after the United States announced visa restrictions for Huawei workers and those of other Chinese companies if they were involved in human rights abuses.
The two superpowers have crossed swords on an increasing number of fronts, including Beijing’s policy on Hong Kong.
But the Trump administration recently welcomed the growing success of Huawei’s isolation – after Britain announced a ban on the company.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that this meant Britain would join the United States and “many other democracies to become” clean countries “”, a comment that sparked a fiery response from Beijing on Thursday .
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, “What the United States is doing has nothing to do with the word” clean. “
“What it does is … dirty play,” she said during a regular briefing.
Asked about Britain’s admission that he changed his position on Huawei because of US sanctions imposed on the company, Hua said: “All of this shows that the British government has indeed lost its precious independence and its autonomy over the Huawei issue. “
She questioned the basis of the US visa restrictions, accusing that “racial discrimination is everywhere in America”.
She added: “If Mr. Pompeo is sincere, we can refrain from imposing visa restrictions on him.”
“We welcome him to Xinjiang,” added Hua, referring to the western region of China where rights groups say more than one million Uighurs and other Turkish Muslims are incarcerated.
Pompeo accused Huawei of already being responsible for human rights abuses, leaving China to spy on dissidents and encouraging widespread surveillance of Beijing in the region, although China denies this.
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