China-US ties: Chinese embassy in Brazil hits back as Brasilia joins America’s ‘Clean Network’

South China Morning Post 11.12.2020 1 min read
China-US ties: Chinese embassy in Brazil hits back as Brasilia joins America’s ‘Clean Network’
  • US-led plan is designed to block Chinese tech giant Huawei’s involvement in foreign nations’ 5G networks
  • US undersecretary of state Keith Krach describes company as the ‘backbone of the [China’s] surveillance state’
China-US ties: Chinese embassy in Brazil hits back as Brasilia joins America’s ‘Clean Network’
US undersecretary of state Keith Krach says the ‘Chinese Communist Party cannot be trusted with our most sensitive data and intellectual property’. Photo: Reuters

China’s embassy in Brazil has hit back at comments made by a senior US official, after Brasilia this week became the latest signatory to an American deal to block Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co. from foreign nations’ 5G networks.

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