Obama’s Pentagon Chief Backs Trump Limits on Working With Huawei
- ‘We need to protect our companies and our friends’: Ash Carter
- Carter also says Trump shouldn’t have met with Kim Jong Un
Ash Carter
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Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter said he backed efforts to blacklist Huawei Technologies Co. over national security concerns, saying it’s reasonable to prevent U.S. companies from working with the Chinese firm.
The Trump administration says Huawei technology could give China’s government a backdoor to eavesdrop on sensitive communications and that Chinese law exposes the company to interference by the government in Beijing, accusations that Huawei rejects.