... our all-out fight.”
Regardless of how encouraging the Chinese tech giant heiress’s words may sound, the fact remains that the company remains a target of U.S. prosecution and sanctions—something that is not about to change anytime soon.
When the Sanctions Bite
Ivan Danilin:
A New Stage in the U.S.–China Tech War: Huawei and Other U.S. Targets
It was former U.S. President Donald Trump who in May 2019
signed
an order that allowed the then-Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to halt any transactions concerning information or communications technology “posing an unacceptable ...
... Huawei also had Iran-related problems. On December 1, 2018, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada at the behest of the United States. In the US, she is accused of providing HSBC bank with misleading information in an attempt to circumvent US sanctions against Iran. Huawei viewed the arrest as a politically motivated attack on the company. Huawei is still under heavy pressure from American regulators and legislators. The U.S. Defense Budget Act of 2018 and 2019 restricted US defence and government agencies from obtaining ...
... Huawei was quick to assure everyone that it would cope just fine during the new crisis, even the company’s management was forced to admit the severity of the blow
On May 15, 2020, exactly one year after the United States launched its full-scale sanctions war on
Huawei
, the U.S. Department of Commerce unveiled
new restrictions
against the Chinese electronics giant. Starting from September 2020, companies will not be allowed to use U.S. technology and software to develop chips for
Huawei
or sell chips developed ...
... and claims that under Chinese laws the company is obliged to transfer personal data over to the Communist Party (the word “Communist” is highlighted in red, of course). You can trust companies with ethical and transparent business practices, but Huawei, the video claims, violates sanctions and supports repressive regimes, for example in Iran (“repressive” is in red as well). Moreover, Huawei has been accused of stealing competitors’ intellectual property, the video says, concluding with a rhetorical question: So, which company ...
How does Russia ensure its national security interests?
The action being taken by various governments to limit the involvement of China’s Huawei in the provision of equipment for 5G has brought into sharp-focus an issue that has been around for some time, but is now becoming more acute for national security of individual countries. That is, how to ensure that purchased Information and Communication ...
