China responds to US threats against Huawei

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Relations between China and the United States are more strained than ever. Last week, the United States announced new measures that could seriously disrupt the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. Today, China has responded to these threats. She will not sit idly by. 

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With our correspondent in Shanghai, Simon Leplâtre

Huawei's hatchet is unearthed again: while the Chinese and American governments, shaken by the coronavirus epidemic, accuse each other of all evils, the United States attacked Huawei again this week .

The latest measures announced by the Trump administration could prevent Huawei from having its state-of-the-art electronic chips manufactured in the best factories in the world. What threaten the future of the world number one in telecommunications. 

On Sunday May 17, the Foreign Ministry replied that "  the Chinese government will firmly defend the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies  ." The statement added that the Trump administration's initiatives "are  destroying global manufacturing, supply and value chains  ."

A point that could well serve in Beijing to counterattack: China refused to punish the American companies which produce in China for fear of accelerating their flight, but if the relationship turned to the Cold War, the large American multinationals like Apple, could in turn be under pressure from Beijing. 

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