The United States took further action to curb China’s technological advances, revoking licenses that allowed Intel and Qualcomm to buy and sell chips to Huawei Technologies. on Financial Times reports. The ruling will affect the chips Huawei uses for computers and mobile phones, and is effective immediately.
Huawei has been on US trade restriction lists since 2019, but has recently made advances that worry the US government, such as an AI-enabled laptop last month. “We are constantly evaluating how our controls can best protect our national security and foreign policy interests, taking into account the ever-changing threat environment and technology landscape.” As part of this process, as we have done in the past, we sometimes revoke export licenses,” a Commerce Department spokesperson said. The spokesman declined to say whether companies other than Huawei were affected. “But we can confirm that we have canceled certain export licenses to Huawei.”
National security experts have accused Huawei of helping China carry out cyber espionage. “China firmly opposes the United States’ excessive expansion of the concept of national security and abuse of export controls to oppress Chinese companies without justification,” China’s foreign ministry said in a statement. Huawei also denies the spying allegations.
“China strongly opposes the United States overstretching the concept of national security and abusing export controls to oppress Chinese companies without justification,” China’s foreign ministry said in a statement. National security experts have accused Huawei of helping China to conduct cyber espionagewhich Huawei denied.
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