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
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- 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’
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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.