Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Thursday his regime would invest “immediately” into Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE to bring a 4G wireless network to the country, which is suffering chronic shortages of food, medicine, electricity, and gasoline under his rule.
Following the U.S. placing Chinese tech firm Huawei on an “entity list,” Chinese consumers are considering a boycott of U.S. tech giant Apple.
Ren Zhengfei, the founder and chief executive of Chinese technology firm Huawei, said in an interview Tuesday he had long expected conflict with the U.S. government because his company “sacrificed individuals and families only for the goal to stand at the top of the world.”
Last week, President Trump signed an executive order effectively barring Chinese telecom giant Huawei from doing business in the United States.
Tech giant Google has temporarily reversed its decision to revoke Chinese tech manufacturer Huawei’s Android operating system license, which would have crippled its ability to compete with Samsung in the smartphone market.
A series of columns in Chinese government-controlled media on Tuesday condemned the United States for policies to protect American industries and national security from the Communist Party, calling the Trump administration’s trade policy “the most barbarian method ever in the history of modern international economic and trade relations.”
Tech firm Google has cut ties with Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei Technologies and will no longer license its Android operating system to the company. One industry expert called the move an “instant kill switch” to Huawei’s desire to overtake Samsung in the global market.
Chinese officials and state-run media condemned President Donald Trump’s executive order effectively blocking Chinese telecom giant Huawei from U.S. markets, deriding it as an example of Trump’s “Cold War mentality” and vowing to protect Chinese business interests by any means necessary.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is issuing an executive order to help protect the United States against foreign adversaries that are taking advantage of technological vulnerabilities to threaten U.S. communications systems.
President Donald Trump reportedly will sign an executive order this week banning U.S. telecom companies from using equipment that has been deemed risky to national security. The order will not specify individual companies or countries of origin, but it will clearly have the most profound impact on Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.
China’s state-run newspaper Global Times revealed in a column defending the nation’s authoritarian “social credit system” Monday that the communist regime had blacklisted 13.49 million Chinese citizens for being “untrustworthy.”
The ongoing proliferation of Chinese surveillance and information technologies in Latin America can be used to exert social control, erode democratic governance, and challenge U.S. and regional strategic interest, expert witnesses told a House panel on Thursday.
CBC News reported on Sunday that Canada is frustrated with the United States for not doing enough to resolve tensions between Ottawa and Beijing – tensions which escalated into an economic showdown after Canada detained Chinese tech mogul Meng Wanzhou of the Huawei telecom corporation for extradition to the U.S. on charges of fraud and violating sanctions.
Gavin Williamson, Secretary of State for Defence, has been sacked by Prime Minister Theresa May after details of a National Security Council meeting in which Chinese tech giant Huawei’s potential involvement in 5G infrastructure was leaked to the press.
China enlisted its telecommunications giant Huawei to build Ecuador’s former socialist President Rafael Correa a replica of its sprawling national surveillance system, helping him monitor dissidents and protect his government, the New York Times revealed on Wednesday.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warns countries around the world to avoid joining the “Belt and Road” initiative because “China is playing a zero-sum game internationally and willing to win at all costs.”
Theresa May appears set to approve Chinese participation in “non-core” elements of Britain’s 5G network via Huawei, delivering a blow to the Five Eyes security alliance of Anglosphere nations, reports suggest.
China lashed out angrily on Monday at U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for criticizing Chinese policy in South America. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Pompeo’s remarks were “lies” and accused him of using “wantonly slanderous, deliberately instigating, irresponsible, and unreasonable” rhetoric.
President Donald Trump directed attention to the news that Chinese telecom company Huawei had hired a former President Barack Obama official as a lobbyist.
A group of conservative leaders are pressing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block efforts by a group of satellite operators seeking to sell spectrum space critical to the operation of forthcoming 5G technology.
United States prosecutors said on Thursday that classified information gathered under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will be introduced in the federal trial of Chinese telecom company Huawei, which has been charged with committing money laundering, bank fraud, and wire fraud in the course of violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology cut ties with Chinese technology manufacturers Huawei and ZTE this week after the US launched federal investigations into both companies.
Six retired U.S. defense officials issued a statement on Wednesday warning that European and Asian partners could put American military operations at risk if they use Chinese technology in their 5G networks.
Security officials in the United Kingdom issued a report on Thursday identifying further security risks in equipment from Chinese telecom giant Huawei. The report noted Huawei has made no progress on addressing previously identified problems and said it would be “difficult” to manage the security risk from further Huawei purchases.
The European Commission has ignored U.S. calls to ban Chinese tech supplier Huawei as it announced a series of new cybersecurity recommendations for next-generation mobile networks.
Google requested a meeting with Dunford, after he called the tech company out for conducting work that directly benefitted China’s military.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cautioned Israelis about the dangers of doing business with China, ranging from debt colonialism to technology theft and espionage, in an interview with Israeli correspondent Barak Ravid on Thursday.
Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Company,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) made his case for keeping China tech company Huawei out of the United States of America, citing a “national security issue.” Rubio pointed out Huawei is not like
U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell warned the German government it could lose access to American intelligence if Germany insists on buying equipment from China’s Huawei telecommunications company for its 5G wireless network.
During an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” National Security Advisor John Bolton discussed the ongoing saga between Huawei, whose CFO is awaiting extradition from Canada to the United States. Bolton discussed the threat of Huawei to U.S. national security
U.S. tech companies including Dell, IBM, and HP are reportedly concerned that China may be spying on them through power cords and plugs manufactured in the country.
China’s giant Huawei telecommunications company announced on Thursday it filed a lawsuit against the United States government over its ban on government agencies and contractors buying Huawei equipment. The ban was imposed over concerns that Huawei products may create security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by Chinese intelligence agents.
Canada took the first step to sending Meng Wanzhou to face accusations of bank fraud in the United States.
Senators call on the U.S. government to block Huawei from U.S. energy market just as it has the U.S. telecom market.
President Donald Trump expects to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping “probably” in March at Mar-a-Lago, he told reporters at the top of a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He Friday.
Gordon Chang warned that America is “unsafe” with Steve Mnuchin in a leadership position in trade negotiations with China.
President Trump signaled support for tech and market structure innovation that would create an open-access wholesale market for 5G.
The Czech Republic’s National Office for Cybernetics and Information Security (NÚKIB) has upheld a decision in which it labelled tech giant Huawei and ZTE a security risk in relation to both their hardware and software.
The United Kingdom and the European Union are both considering banning Chinese tech giant Huawei’s equipment from telecommunication networks, in moves that would follow others already enacted across the English-speaking world.
Just days before trade negotiations are set to resume, federal prosecutors formally levelled charged against the Chinese telecom giant Monday.
