China ‘gratified’ Huawei ban also met with US opposition as tech firms express concerns


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 24 Jul 2019

“The impact (of the trade war) is still under control,” said spokesman Huang. — SCMP

China is “gratified” to see that firms in the United States do not fully agree with Washington’s decision to ban sales to Huawei, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, hours after US president Donald Trump met with American technology firms to discuss an easing of the restrictions on the blacklisted Chinese telecommunications equipment maker.

Huawei was placed on the trade blacklist in May due to national security concerns, although Trump said last month after his meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Japan that US companies would be allowed to sell products without such implications, although the details remain unclear.

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