SecurityHuawei says concerns over US research funding are ignorantLawmakers called on Secretary Betsy DeVos to investigate the practice. Now, Reuters reports, Huawei Chairman Eric Xu has called Rubio and Banks "closed-minded and ill-informed." "China is using Huawei to position themselves to steal American research through so-called 'research partnerships' with American universities to exploit the openness of our system of higher education," Rubio said in a statement. Banks said, "Huawei is a state-directed entity that uses academic surveillance to spy and collect intelligence on America and our allies. Further, a bill was proposed earlier this year that would prohibit all government agencies from working with Huawei.
Huawei says it does not expect US sanctions: Report
China's Huawei, the world's largest maker of telecommunication network equipment, does not see itself becoming the target of U.S. sanctions and will keep buying U.S. chips this year, one of its three rotating chairmen told a French newspaper. Huawei, also the world's third-largest smartphone maker, is a private company but has found itself battling perceptions of ties to the Chinese government, which it has repeatedly denied. Several U.S. lawmakers last month claimed its research funding to American universities posed a "significant threat" to national security, the latest difficulty Huawei has faced operating in the United States. Asked if he feared his company could also be hit by sanctions, Ken Hu, one of Huawei's rotating chairmen, told Le Journal du Dimanche:"It would be hard to imagine. We will therefore keep buying American chips this year."Earlier this year, U.S. lawmakers asked Alphabet's Google to reconsider working with Huawei, which they described as a security threat.
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