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China asks United States to stop 'unreasonable suppression' of Huawei
18:25 (16/05) - Bron: Reuters
(Adds details of Global Times report, background on dispute)
BEIJING/HONG KONG, May 16 (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 , 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
, Cisco Systems Inc and Qualcomm Inc .
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 BA.N
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.
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.