APThe US on Wednesday issued an executive order apparently aimed at banning Huawei Technologies Co (華為) equipment from US networks and said it was subjecting the Chinese firm to strict export controls. Huawei would be the largest business ever subjected to the controls, a law enforcement measure that requires it to obtain US government approval on purchases of US technology, said Kevin Wolf, a former US assistant secretary of commerce for export administration. Huawei said that blocking it from doing business in the US would hamper the introduction of next-generation communications technology. “It signals to US friends and allies how far Washington is willing to go to block Huawei,” Council on Foreign Relations cybersecurity director Adam Segal said. Huawei said it supplies 45 of the world’s top 50 phone companies, but only about 2 percent of telecom equipment purchased by North American carriers in 2017 was Huawei-made.

Source: Taipei Times May 16, 2019 15:56 UTC