The pace of suppressing Chinese enterprises has not stopped! The US Senate voted to pass the "2021 Security Equipment Act" to completely block Huawei ZTE

[Global Times reporter Ni Hao] The pace of the United States to suppress Chinese enterprises has not stopped! According to Reuters reported on the 29th, the US Senate passed the "2021 Security Equipment Act" on the 28th local time, which requires the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to issue new equipment licenses to companies that have been included in the "threat to national security" list in order to prevent the communication equipment of Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE from entering the US telecommunications network.

Reuters said the passage of the Safety Equipment Act was the latest move by the U.S. government to crack down on Chinese telecommunications and technology companies. The bill was voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives last week and is now pending its signature on U.S. President Joe Biden.

In order to block Chinese communications equipment companies, on June 30, 2020, the FCC issued an official statement officially listing Huawei and ZTE as enterprises that "pose a national security threat" and prohibiting U.S. telecom operators from using government subsidy funds to purchase any equipment from Huawei and ZTE. In March 2021, the FCC announced the inclusion of five Chinese enterprises including Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision and Zhejiang Dahua in the "blacklist" under the Security and Trusted Communication Networks Act of 2019. However, the above provisions only apply to equipment purchased with federal funds, and if private funds or non-federal government funds are used to purchase equipment from "blacklisted" companies, the equipment can still be used.

Us media reported that the "security equipment law" just passed aims to plug this "loophole" and prevent any equipment from Chinese government-backed companies such as Huawei and ZTE from entering the Telecommunications network in the United States.

Republican Senator Rubio, who proposed the Security Equipment Act of 2021, threatened in a statement on the 28th: "Companies like Huawei and ZTE that are guided by the Chinese state are known national security threats, and there is no place for them in our telecommunications networks." He also demanded that "U.S. President Joe Biden must quickly sign it into law so that Chinese companies can no longer take advantage of this dangerous loophole."

In the face of U.S. crackdowns on Chinese communications companies, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said earlier this year that the United States has been constantly slandering and smearing Huawei for some time, but so far it has not come up with any real evidence to prove that Huawei products pose a security threat to the United States and other countries. In order to safeguard the monopoly and hegemonic position of us science and technology, the US government has generalized the concept of national security, abused state power, and stopped at nothing to suppress Chinese high-tech enterprises, which is a negation of the market economy principle that the US side itself has always flaunted, and also exposes the hypocrisy of the so-called fair competition of the US side.

On the 26th of this month, the FCC announced that it would revoke China Telecom Americas' license to operate in the United States on the grounds of so-called "national security". Shu Jueting, spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce of China, said on the 28th that the US move maliciously suppressed Chinese enterprises in the absence of factual basis, violated market principles, and undermined the atmosphere of cooperation between the two sides, and the Chinese side expressed serious concern about this. The Chinese economic and trade team has made solemn representations to the US side in this regard, and urged the US side to immediately correct its wrong practices and provide a fair, open, just and non-discriminatory business environment for enterprises investing and operating in the Us. China will continue to take necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises.

Source: Global Times