BEIJING: Beijing has urged the United States to stop the “unreasonable suppression of Huawei and Chinese enterprises” after Washington announced new export controls to restrict the tech giant’s access to semiconductor technology. “The Chinese government will firmly uphold Chinese firms’ legitimate and legal rights and interests,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Saturday. “We urge the US side to immediately stop its unreasonable suppression of Huawei and Chinese enterprises.”The ministry said the Trump administration’s actions “destroy global manufacturing, supply and value chains”. As a result, Huawei has increasingly relied on domestically manufactured technology, but the latest rules will also ban foreign firms that use US technology from shipping semiconductors to Huawei without US permission. US-China relations are again on the rocks with Washington and Beijing trading barbs over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

Source: Pakistan Today May 16, 2020 05:37 UTC