U.S. President Donald Trump banned on Wednesday that US companies use foreign-company telecommunications equipment seen as risky for national security, a measure that seems to point to China in full tension Commercial with Beijing. Trump declared a “national emergency” to issue the decree, which particularly applies to the Chinese giant Huawei.La Casa Blanca said it was making the decision to protect the country “from foreign adversaries who are creating and exploiting each time Plus the vulnerabilities of information and communications technology infrastructure and services in the United States. ” The presidential decree claims to respond to “malicious acts favoured by the Internet, including economic and industrial espionage to the detriment of the United States and its population”. Given the possibility that Trump issue a decree Thus, the Chinese authorities had already denounced an abuse of power on the part of Washington in order to eliminate the Chinese companies of the free play of the competition.
“Some time ago the United States abused its power to deliberately discredit Chinese companies and push them back at all costs, which is not fair or respectable,” said Geng Shuang, a spokesman for Chinese diplomacy.
The official accused Washington of recourse to the “pretext of national security” to prevent Chinese companies from investing and gaining market share in the United States.
