US President Donald Trump said Thursday that the giant Chinese telecommunications company Huawei could be part of a trade deal. The US put Huawei on…
US President Donald Trump said Thursday that the giant Chinese telecommunications company Huawei could be part of a trade deal. The US put Huawei on a blacklist this month for security reasons.
Trump’s statement
Trump said to reporters at the White House: “It’s possible that Huawei even would be included in some kind of a trade deal. Huawei is something that’s very dangerous. You look at what they’ve done from a security standpoint, from a military standpoint, it’s very dangerous.”
Trump gave no details of how this was possible. The Trump administration has been limiting the sale of vital US components to Chinese telecommunication equipment makers in order to keep the Chinese from having access to key technologies. The latest US ban has caused Google to revoke the license of Huawei to use its proprietary Android apps and services in their smartphones and Huawei will also not be sent updates until they are available in the publicly available version. The development is reported in a recent Digital Journal article
The Trump administration is seeking to choke off Beijing’s access to key technologies by limiting the sale of vital U. S. components to the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker over security concerns. However, if the security concerns are so serious why would Huawei be included in a trade deal? Would there be a deal that it could not operate in the US or get US parts? China would surely reject that.
