Chinese telecom giant Huawei is caught in the crossfire of the US-China trade war. Last week, the Trump administration essentially blocked the Chinese tech giant from importing US hardware.
The US added the company to its “Entity List”, which requires US companies to gain approval from the government to sell equipment to Huawei. This means the Chinese tech giant is banned from buying any necessary parts or other equipment without pre-approval from the White House. Google also followed the suit and announced that it had cut off Huawei’s Android license.
Speaking at the Potsdam Conference on National Cybersecurity on Thursday, Deputy Chairman, Ken Hu, on Thursday said the Donald Trump administration’s act of imposing restrictions on Huawei based on ungrounded allegations is totally unjustified.
Hu said the ban creates a dangerous precedent that will affect international markets, cut off global supply chains, and disrupt fair competition.
He said Huawei accounts roughly for 20 percent of European Android-based phone market and any such reckless decisions or ban can cause a great deal of harm to consumers and businesses in Europe.
Hu went on to compare the United States’ trade restrictions imposed on Huawei to the erection of the Berlin Wall.
“We don’t want to see another wall [like the Berlin Wall] and we don’t want to go through another painful experience,” Huawei’s Deputy Chairman said. “Equally, we don’t want to build a new wall in terms of trade, we don’t want to build a new wall in terms of technology either.”
Hu said the world today needs an integrated global ecosystem which can help global companies to promote faster technological innovation and stronger economic growth, which is inevitable to maintain prosperity for human society.
You can read the full speech on Huawei’s official website.
