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Joe Biden’s US administration has imposed new restrictions on some suppliers of Huawei, China’s largest telecommunications equipment company, Bloomberg News and Reuters reported on the 11th (local time).
This is the first sanctions against Huawei by the Biden administration, and is interpreted as a signal that the new administration will continue and strengthen the anti-Huawei policy following the former Donald Trump administration.
In particular, the US, Japan, India and Australia consultative body’Quad’, which is expected to further strengthen’anti-China solidarity’ from the point of view, puts pressure on the public for the first video summit on the 12th. It is an aspect of sending an all-round public hardline message by tightening the reins of the company.
This ‘5G ban’ is a content that restricts the supply of items that can be used in Huawei’s 5G devices, and tightens the conditions for export approval, which has been in effect this week, foreign media reported.
This regulation more clearly prohibits the export of parts for Huawei’s 5G equipment, such as semiconductors, antennas, and batteries, and even some companies that were allowed to export to Huawei are subject to more uniform export restrictions.
Reuters said the Biden administration has revised the approval clause for companies selling to Huawei, adding that it is a measure to further restrict the supply of 5G-related items by companies.
One source said the new regulatory action would hurt some suppliers, but there were aspects of welcoming a flat playground between companies due to more even restrictions.
Two sources told Reuters that this measure could disrupt existing contracts between suppliers and Huawei based on previous export approvals.
According to Reuters, the Trump administration declined to approve a total of 116 cases with a face value of $119 billion in January, at the end of its term, and decided to approve only four cases, worth $20 million. It is known that most of the items that were rejected for approval belonged to three categories: memory, remote control, and network applications.
A spokesman for the US Department of Commerce declined to comment, saying that approval-related information should be kept confidential.
Foreign media reported that the US’ decision to beat Huawei shows that the Biden administration is further strengthening its strong line of exports to Huawei.
With the new sanctions confirming the tough stance of the new US administration related to Huawei, some observers say that pressure on South Korea may continue to increase over the issue of joining the anti-Huawei front after the former Trump administration.
According to the US press, the appointee of the Deputy Minister of Commerce Don Graves said on the day that export restrictions on Huawei should not be abolished, and further work should be done to promote US leadership within international technical norm-setting organizations.
He also suggested the possibility of further sanctions, saying it is open to measures to impose additional export controls and other regulations on China, especially in relation to human rights violations.
White House spokesman Jen Saki also reaffirmed his position in late January that communications equipment made by untrusted suppliers such as Huawei poses a threat to the security of the United States and allies, ensuring that the U.S. network does not use equipment from untrusted suppliers. It has been mentioned that it will cooperate with the alliance to protect the network.
Huawei is a leading company that has been subject to high US sanctions in the midst of the Trump administration’s trade war between the United States and China.
The Trump administration raised suspicions that Huawei is using its communications equipment to help China’s espionage activities, making it a threat to US national security and listing Huawei on the Department of Commerce’s export control list in May 2019.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rejected Huawei’s petition to reconsider the FCC’s previous decision that it threatened US national security in December of last year, at the end of the Trump administration’s term.
The US Congress also introduced a new provision in the 2021 Fiscal Year Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) reconsidering the deployment of its troops and key military equipment in countries using 5G technology from Chinese companies, such as Huawei.
Huawei expected a change in the US’s hardline tone toward the company as a result of the change of power in the US, but the trend is going back to nothing.
Huawei founder Chairman Ren Jungfei sent a message of appreciation, expressing anticipation for the Biden administration. Huawei also filed a lawsuit last month calling for the withdrawal of the FCC’s designation as a “national security threat” in the 5th Court of Appeals in the United States.
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