China has harshly criticized Canada for the decision to exclude the giants Huawei and ZTE from its telecommunications network, starting with the 5G networks, calling it “groundless” because of “non-existent security risks”.
“China is firmly against all of this,” foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin thundered, assuring that Beijing “will take all necessary measures” to protect Chinese companies. While the Shenzhen group itself has defined the blockade of its services as a “political decision”.
Ottawa’s decision is in line with those adopted by the United States, Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand, Japan and Sweden, which have already blocked or severely limited the use of Huawei technologies, and follows the bitter diplomatic confrontation with Beijing over the Meng Wangzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer and daughter of founder Ren Zhengfei, arrested in Vancouver in December 2018 at the request of the US on suspicion of violating Iran sanctions for nearly three years. China, a few days after her arrest, arrested two Canadian citizens – former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor – in what observers saw as retaliation for Meng’s arrest. All three were released in September 2021 after the manager struck a deal with the US Department of Justice on the fraud allegations, ending the grueling legal battle over her extradition to the United States.
Washington has warned about the security implications of supplying Chinese technology companies, especially by granting access to telecommunications or strategic infrastructures that could be used for espionage or even for simple sabotage.
On Thursday, Canadian Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, on 5G, announced “its intention to ban the inclusion of Huawei and ZTE products and services in Canadian telecommunications systems”, adding that there will be no authorization to operators. that “they will want to use products or services that put national security at risk”. Furthermore, operators who already use it “will have to stop using it and remove it”, with regard to 4G equipment.
For Huawei, this is a bad blow, in the midst of efforts to reorient the business after the American squeeze on the supplies of US hi-tech components. “Despite a decline in revenue in 2021, our ability to make profits and generate cash flows is increasing and we are better able to cope with uncertainty,” said Meng, ‘Lady Huawei’, at her first major public event, speaking. a little excited about the 2021 balance sheet closed with record net profits up by 75.9% and revenues slowing down by 28.6%. Canada’s stop is certainly not helping.
Source: Ansa
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