Are we seeing a tech war between the US and China?
Reports say that the US government has stopped giving licenses to US companies that want to sell most goods to the Chinese tech company Huawei.
The Biden administration keeps making it harder for the US to send technology to China.
Washington has said that Huawei is a threat to US security and works with the Chinese Communist Party.
Both the company and the government of China have said that the claims are not true.
The first piece of news came from the Financial Times. It said that the US Commerce Department told some American companies that they could no longer sell US technology to Huawei.
The move comes as Washington moves toward a ban on selling US technology to the Chinese telecom equipment giant, the paper said.
As political tensions between Washington and Beijing grew over Taiwan, where most of the world’s computer chips are made, the Biden Administration kept giving Huawei more rules.
US Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Alan Estevez said in October, “The threat environment is always changing.”
For several years, the US has made it hard for Shenzhen-based Huawei to export high-speed 5G telecom equipment and artificial intelligence technology…Read More
Source: New York Wire