U.S. officials have argued that Huawei poses a security risk due to its ties to the Chinese government.
Washington:
The US administration on Monday extended its sanctions against China’s Huawei, a move aimed at further limiting the tech giant’s access to computer chips and other technologies.
A Commerce Department statement added 38 Huawei subsidiaries around the world to the “entity list,” saying the company was using international subsidiaries to circumvent sanctions that prevent the export of US-based technology.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Huawei and its affiliates “have worked through third parties to exploit American technology in a way that undermines American national security and foreign policy interests.”
U.S. officials have argued that Huawei poses a security risk due to its ties to the Beijing government, a claim the company has rejected.
The toughening of sanctions comes amid heightened tensions between the United States and China and Washington’s claims that Chinese companies are being used for espionage, despite repeated denials.
President Donald Trump has sought to ban the hugely popular TikTok mobile app if it is not sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance.
Speaking to Fox News on Monday, Trump claimed that Huawei “is coming out and they’re spying on our country – it’s very complex things, you have microchips, you have things you can’t even see.”
The Trump administration has banned Huawei from accessing 5G wireless networks in the United States and urged its allies to do the same.
Meanwhile, Huawei has emerged as the world‘s largest smartphone maker in the last quarter, largely due to sales in the Chinese market, even as Washington decides to deny the company access to much of it. from the Google Android system.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a separate statement that the Trump administration “sees Huawei for what it is – a state watchdog arm of the Communist Party of China.”
Pompeo said the new sanctions were imposed “to protect US national security, the privacy of our citizens and the integrity of our 5G infrastructure against malicious influence from Beijing.”
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