China Crackdown Not Driven by Politics, Justice Official Says
- Demers rejects Chinese claim of politics in Huawei case
- He blames China for ‘rob, replicate and replace’ approach
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U.S. efforts to prosecute Chinese nationals for criminal activity, such as the current effort to extradite a Huawei Technologies Co. executive who was arrested in Canada, are based on years of investigative activity and not politics, a top U.S. Justice Department official said.
“Law enforcement is what we do at the Justice Department," John Demers, head of the department’s National Security Division, said in an interview Tuesday on Bloomberg Television. “We follow those facts to see if there are violations of U.S. law."