Huawei phone concerns overview:
- Who: Republican leaders have written a letter to the Biden administration expressing concern Huawei Technologies Co. is violating export restrictions by allegedly producing its new smartphone with technology that allows it to access U.S. 5G technology.
- Why: The lawmakers argue Huawei produced its new smartphone, the Mate 60 Pro, with 7-nanometer chips produced by Chinese state-owned Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. that allow the devices to improperly access the 5G technology.
- Where: The concerns involve the U.S. and China.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are concerned about the potential capability of Chinese phone company Huawei Technologies Co. to access U.S. 5G technology for its new smartphone, the Mate 60 Pro.
In a letter to the Biden administration earlier this month, the Republican leaders wrote that they are concerned Huawei violated export restrictions by developing its ultra-fast new smartphone with 7-nanometer chips capable of accessing 5G technology, Law360 reports.
“Due to the ubiquity of U.S. origin technology throughout the semiconductor supply chain, these reports suggest a violation of U.S. export control regulations,” the Republican lawmakers wrote.
The letter was written by leaders of the House Armed Services Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
Republican lawmakers say Bureau of Industry and Security not enforcing export control rules against China, others
The Republican leaders said they are “extremely troubled and perplexed” by an alleged inability by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to “effectively write and enforce export control rules against violators, especially China.”
The 7-nanometer chips found in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro devices were produced by Chinese state-owned Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), according to the letter.
“Despite this knowledge and continued Congressional pressure to adopt stricter policies, BIS has continued to grant licenses to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) controlled companies, such as SMIC, worth hundreds of billions of dollars,” the letter states.
The Republican lawmakers said the BIS should “immediately” revoke all existing licenses for SMIC and Huawei and pursue criminal charges against executives from both of the companies, among other things.
The requested actions, the Republican leaders said, are in accordance with the “primary goal of preventing malign actors from obtaining or diverting sensitive technologies outlined before the Foreign Affairs Committee earlier this year.”
In another case involving Huawei, the company agreed alongside Google to pay $9.75 million in April 2019 to resolve claims that Nexus 6P smartphones were prone to randomly booting up and experiencing battery drain.
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