Huawei is the new chapter in the US-China war – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

China and the United States met on Thursday amid a mixture of accusations and mutual reproaches after US President Donald Trump issued a decree last night banning US companies from using Huawei's Chinese technology. .

At the daily press conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang categorically stated that "no one sees this movement as constructive or friendly" and urged the United States "to stop". use these practices ".

The spokesman added that China "opposes the countries that create problems with the issue of national security as an excuse" and said the Asian giant's foreign companies "need not worry if they are in a legal situation ".

These claims come after Trump declared Wednesday a national emergency prohibiting US companies to use technological equipment companies pretending to spy on the country, which could restrict trade with companies like Huawei.

"China will take all necessary measures to protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies," Lu said, adding that "the Chinese government has always called on companies operating overseas to respect the laws of China. country where they go. "

In the same vein, the Asian giant's trade ministry on Thursday called on the US to "put an end to the mistake" of putting into practice "a decree ordering the exclusion of Huawei ".

"This decree is an abuse of national security" and badumes "unilateral trade sanctions," said ministry spokesman Gao Feng at a press conference.

In addition, Gao urged the United States to "abide by the rules of the market" and to create a "transparent and impartial" business environment for foreign companies.

Trump's decree is directed against the "foreign opponents" of the United States, although he does not specifically name China, a country with which he has a sharp trade dispute.

Negotiations to end it have not broken down yet, after more than ten rounds of consultations, according to both parties, but they do not seem resolved in the short term after the mutual imposition of tariffs and the malignant declarations of last week.

In this regard, the Chinese Foreign Ministry today said concisely that the conclusion of the agreements required "good faith, mutual respect, equality and benefits for both parties", and that "the China, despite the difficulties The United States has always given the best of itself and offered a positive attitude. "

However, the Chinese official press has today attacked its rival and badured that the United States "ignores the laws and the facts", uses "tactics of harbadment that are not reasonable" and behaves "arbitrarily" and irrational, endangering bilateral relations and global economic growth, "according to an editorial released today by El Diario del Pueblo.

For its part, Trump, in addition to this latter measure, minimized the import duties imposed by China on US products and insisted that his government still had "a lot of room" to continue imposing levies of several millions of dollars on Beijing's badets.

The president explained that his executive "has the right" to impose a 25% tariff on an additional 325,000 million dollars, but acknowledged that "still" had not yet made a decision about it .

It remains to be seen how Trump's decree-law restricts the purchase of telecommunication equipment from the Chinese firm, in the eye of the hurricane, since Washington accused it of 39 spying for the Chinese government and develop "back doors" to access any device and control it without the knowledge of the user.

These charges are part of the US campaign to prevent Huawei from gaining control of 5G networks, which allow users to surf the Internet much more quickly and could facilitate the development of autonomous vehicles and techniques for remote surgery.

However, Huawei himself, who has repeatedly denied spying charges in the past, said today that the restrictions would only "harm the interests" of businesses and consumers in that country. .

In a statement, the Chinese technology giant said that this type of "unreasonable restrictions" violated the rights of society and posed "other serious legal problems".

"Limiting Huawei (the opportunity) to do business in the United States will not make this country safer or stronger, it will only serve to limit the United States to cheaper and more expensive alternatives," he said. declared.