A student studies in the biomedical library at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in San Diego, California, February 28, 2013. REUTER/Mike Blake/Files
SAN FRANCISCO: Top US universities are ditching telecom equipment made by Huawei Technologies and other Chinese companies to avoid losing federal funding under a new national security law backed by the Trump administration.
US officials allege Chinese telecom manufacturers are producing equipment that allows their government to spy on users abroad, including Western researchers working on leading-edge technologies. Beijing and the Chinese companies have repeatedly denied such claims.
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