(Budapest) The sanctions imposed by the government of Donald Trump against the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei "hit the US economy more than the company," said Monday a senior official of Huawei in Budapest.
"America needs Huawei more than Hawaii from America," Andy Purdy, head of security for the US subsidiary of the group, told reporters on the sidelines of a conference of telecommunication companies in the United States. the Hungarian capital.
Huawei, the world's second-largest smart phone company, has been blacklisted by the Trump administration, suspected of providing access to Chinese intelligence services, which the group denies.
Washington has banned US companies from selling technology products to the Chinese group.
"Preventing us from buying from US companies will do a lot of harm to America," said Purdy, who said Huawei "is at the center of a geopolitical struggle between China and the United States." "Potentially, 40,000 jobs are directly threatened within (US) companies, because" 30% of the components we use globally come from the United States, "he added.
The world's second-largest handset provider also claims to not be dependent on US customers and "to have had tremendous success without significant penetration of the world's largest market, the United States."
Washington fears that Huawei will provide Beijing with a means of spying on the communications of countries that use its products and services.
Andy Purdy argued that "verifications are about everyone", not just Huawei, and that objective and transparent "standards" for "what equipment is trustworthy" are established at the international level.
There is no evidence that Huawei has engaged in "wrongdoing" or that the group is "subject to the improper influence of the Chinese government," he said.
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