Washington is trying by all possible means to make citizens of the United States and other countries believe that the Huawei telecommunications company is a security threat, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Thursday.
“We would very much like the US to provide us with at least some evidence [supporting their statements regarding Huawei]. Recently, the US has been trying to use all possible means to make Huawei a problem and make people in the US and other countries believe in the so-called security problem coming from Huawei. Sometimes they try to use the so-called ideological issue and try to exaggerate the relationship between Chinese business and the government”, the diplomat said at a briefing.
Beijing has firmly denied those allegations. In the meantime, the Chinese corporation has even filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in order to fight the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), signed by President Donald Trump earlier in May, which added Huawei and its 70 affiliates to a trade blacklist, thereby restricting the company’s activity in the United States.