Cybersecurity
Trump Germany Envoy Calls U.S.-China Spying Comparison Insulting
- Grenell dismisses equating China’s espionage threat with U.S.
- Altmaier earlier defended Huawei with jab at NSA controversy
A Huawei Technologies Co. logo sits on display as customers browse inside a Media Markt electronic goods store in Berlin.
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President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Germany called comments by officials in Berlin who compared the threat of U.S. and Chinese espionage an “insult” to American troops stationed in the country.
The volley by U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell, a Trump loyalist who has stoked trans-Atlantic tensions with pointed comments on German-U.S. divisions, is likely to compound controversy over the participation of China’s Huawei Technologies Co. in Germany’s fifth-generation mobile technology.