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China asks United States to stop 'unreasonable suppression' of Huawei

Published 05/16/2020, 04:55 AM
Updated 05/16/2020, 01:00 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Huawei company logo is pictured at the Shenzhen International Airport in Shenzhen

BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry said on Saturday the United States needed to stop the "unreasonable suppression" of Chinese companies like Huawei, and a Chinese newspaper said the government was ready to retaliate against Washington.

The Trump administration on Friday moved to block global chip supplies to blacklisted telecoms equipment company Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL], spurring fears of Chinese retaliation and hammering shares of U.S. producers of chipmaking equipment.

China will firmly defend its companies' legal rights, the foreign ministry said in a statement in response to Reuters' questions on whether Beijing would take retaliatory measures against the United States.

China's Global Times newspaper on Saturday quoted a source close to the Chinese government as saying that Beijing was ready to take a series of countermeasures against the United States, such as putting U.S. companies on an "unreliable entity list" and imposing restrictions on U.S. companies such as Apple Inc (O:AAPL), Cisco Systems Inc (O:CSCO) and Qualcomm Inc (O:QCOM).

The newspaper, published by the People's Daily, the official newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party, said the source also mentioned halting the purchase of Boeing Co (N:BA) airplanes.

"China will take forceful countermeasures to protect its own legitimate rights" if the United States moves forward with the plan to change rules and bar essential suppliers of chips, including Taiwan-based TSMC, from selling chips to Huawei, the Global Times quoted the source as saying.

Tensions between the world's two largest economies have spiked in recent weeks, with officials on both sides suggesting a hard-won deal that defused a bitter 18-month trade war could be abandoned months after it was signed in January.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Huawei company logo is pictured at the Shenzhen International Airport in Shenzhen

In addition to the move on Huawei, the U.S. Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which oversees billions in federal retirement dollars, this week also said it would indefinitely delay plans to invest in some Chinese companies that are under scrutiny in Washington.

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China is the cancer of Earth
no more China stuff
Im sure the bullet train was invented 5000 years ago from china, not the german or the jap, just joking 😆
Someone asinine here rattle atomic bombs on China, which simply makes them pity dwarf alike. If when in Korean War the threat of such simply brushed away as hoax by Mao, how on earth anyone with minimum brain would flash this kind of nonesense without being ridiculed wildly?
Look at the flatulent dung spewed out of your upper flapping arsholl, what an asinine donkie you despicable are.
do you even know what the word asinine means? because you have used it linguistically incorrect like five times. I'm sure you went to American university as well, lol. Your usage and grasp of the language is like a 5th grader and it is quite humorous. I'm sure you cheated an awful lot to get to where you are and it shows.
Enjoy your earned character asinine, donkie!
Support Trump!
No!
No thx
I pass
I wonder who has any clout on Trump's decision-making when they feel in favor of China on this topic here. I wonder which candidate in the next election will China root for.
I think China wants Trump to continue because Trump has made US a complete failure on the international stage.
Simple, Flippy Donald for president, since he is for MAGA, Make America Gauche Again.
CCP, you can't just walk in and be a global superpower. The US and its people aren't suppressed chinese citizens.
Then, Chinese fly in and let you bashers to figure out why 500 years later if when there would be some still.
Only when China stops oppressing all foreign competition, stops manipulating its currency, stops stealing IP, and on and on. The world needs to decouple all its critical supply chains from China which has proven to be unreliable and exclusively self serving. Trump and the EU are on the right track. China needs to implement all the conditions under which it was granted access to the WTO for it to be welcome on the world stage.
The world actually is looking to China. They asked themselves, why China is able to control the spread but US cannot? When Trump wants to blame China and said the virus leaked from the lab, not on country come to stand by US. That shows you we are all alone.
 no
 sorry to brake it to you but the whole world is laughing at the US with Trump
Only when China stops oppressing all competition, stops manipulating their currency, stops stealing IP, opens its markets, stops manipulating its access to WTO, and on and on. It is critical that the rest of the world decouples all its critical supply chains from China which has proven over and over to be an unreliable market. They have done and will continue to dupe the world for their direct benefit as long as we let them. Trump and the EU are on the right track. China must change in order to be welcome on the world stage.
Nixon shold have never have "opened up" China in the first place. Yet another crook politician selling us all down the river.
Productivity is what makes a capitalist world move ahead. We are lucky to have China's help with productivities in the last few decades. Without this, the world is probably still in the 90s period, without internet and smartphones, and all the cheap things.
 I wouldn't even call China socialist. Majority of China's companies or industries are not owned by the state.
You are correct, I agreed.
China has been drumming about the unreliable entity list since more than a year ago.  I'll believe it when I see it.
China makes cold war USSR look like good friends to the US
China plan decades out. They are always 10 steps ahead of us. They saw all this coming. Trump thinks blocking will slow down Huawei, but China is just playing along, sounding the alarm. But actually, Huawei is already developing chips, so when US cut completely, Huawei will be able to flip a switch and go full force ahead. My new book will be called, The Sleeping Dragon of the East has Awaken.
Did China see 10 steps ahead when the Wuhan virus tore through your country? Or did they see 10 steps ahead when they allowed it to spread across the world? Which one Wong?
No one can see that happening. No one is above nature. When nature calls, human beings have to bow.
USA virus attack on China like this one was in anticipation long time ago, frankly, ergo it was put off in China quickly and effectively. Now you know that when you hastily attack others you take your own desperate consequence right in front of you at the moment.
Seems like huawei technology far ahead than Apple's its all I get from this........Oops!
Yes. Stealing secrets. H company was set up with stealing secrets from CSCO years ago.. Hmm.
 sounds like they were using the u.s. playbook on how to do shady business?
U guys even have evidence for stealing ? Like u guys being accused Iraq owns massive dstructive weapon back then. THATS NOT A LIE? Lmao.
So it is ok for China to do ‘unreasonable suppression’ to us companies. Copy that.
China did and still is doing the same thing to usa companies. For years usa companies giving technologies to China in hope that the gov will allow them to access the 1.5b people. None of them suceed in China because the gov just take the tech, give to local companies, and choke foreigners.
Wall street chose to make its life dependent upon a communist dictatorship with world conquest ambitions and now the market has to pay the price.
If Taiwan is a country, then why can't they join the WHO? The world has hundreds of countries, but I think only 5 or 6 small countries recognized Taiwan as a country.
If taiwan is not a country the. Why does it have an army, a ligitimate and functional government, and independent democratic relations? Your claim is weak. Taiwan is just as independent as other mid size countries in the world.
China allows One country, two systems for Taiwan. If Taiwan is a country, then explain to me why Mayor Tsai cannot go ********another country as head of state? She can only go to a couple of small countries. She can't come to US and talk to a US President. So I think my case is pretty strong, Taiwan is not a regular country.
China has choked out many foreign companies such as Lotte or Samsung to help its owns. They will see how painful it is when all other countries in the world aren't supportive to themselves.
China choked usa companies more than Korean. Korean said scr@w china n set up factories in Vietnam. Usa tech has deep tight w Taiwan and Taiwanese businesses prefer China.
"Trade war starts again". See the market reaction last year on trade war, likely, it is another action for Trump to manipulate market… "bad news" "market down" and then more rate cut from FED to create "fake" market heaven. Anything (words, agreement) from this administration can't be trusted. BTW, phase one is kind of joke ~ but Trump claimed it as his triumph.
China has asked for sanity from an insane leader. Do they hope he loses in November or do they deal with him here and now. Clearly we want a full blown excuse for a trade war.  I suggest you too go all out and give it to him.  It will guarantee his defeat. China, remember short term loss for long term gain. have you forgotten?
it cries out in pain as it strikes you, join the bugs if you love them so much. Or make up another camp story to scare the sheep into supporting you.
time that China puts an end to their own aggression. they have problems but then all countries have their problems. it's better to play down such tactics in the difficult time
They obviously didnt steal enough intellectual property to keep it going otherwise they wouldnt be so belicose. Winners create, losers copy. They must be punished for the pandemic as well. An example must be made. Trump will make it. His base doesnt care what happens to AAPL. He will listen to Navarro and Miller. They will explain that His reelection is better insured by standing up to China than propping up the stock market
World War 3 happening in real life and online.
We live in integrated world. We have to focus on this idea.
Since Huawei foresaw this situation many years ago and prepared for it, as we have found it out lately, I dont see how US could drag Huawei down, no matter how egregiously US attacks Huawei and China.
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