U.S. Tightens Restrictions on Huawei Yet Again

Stephen Ezell, vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a think tank, said the U.S. step represents a “significant escalation” in trade tensions. “While the administration is right to insist that Huawei, and China more broadly, compete within established global trade rules, and appropriately take countermeasures when they don’t, blanket tech export/use restrictions on Huawei run the risk of harming U.S. firms, which make $11 billion in annual sales to Huawei and of encouraging China to redouble its efforts to develop a completely indigenous semiconductor ecosystem,” he said by email.