US crackdown on Huawei typical economic bullying says minister
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With the use of state power, Washington’s groundless crackdown on
Chinese private company Huawei is typical economic bullying, Chinese
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi says.
During a press conference on the sidelines of the meeting of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers,
Wang said some people in the United States do not want China to have
legitimate rights to development and attempt to impede China’s
development process.
A typical example is that Washington uses its state power to
unjustifiably suppress Huawei without any factual basis, Wang said,
adding that “this is typical economic bullying.”
The Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of
Commerce earlier put Huawei and its affiliates on an “Entity List,”
which restricts the sale or transfer of U.S. technologies to the
company. The ban has triggered opposition from markets worldwide.
“A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little,”
said Wang, quoting an idiom said by Mencius, an ancient Chinese
philosopher.
Such an egocentric approach by the the United States will not win the
recognition and support of the international community, said Wang.
The SCO Council of Foreign Ministers on Wednesday adopted a press
communique in which the members jointly oppose all forms of
unilateralism and trade protectionism.
The communique particularly stressed their opposition to
discriminatory practices against mutually beneficial international
cooperation in the fields of digital economy and communication
technology under any pretext.