Biden Administration Grants Chinese Company to Sell Auto-Chips, Despite Spy Concerns

The Trump administration urged the world to avoid doing business with the Chinese Communist Party-linked technology company, Huawei. Trump believed that our national security would be weakened if America allowed Huawei technology anywhere in the United States.

In a May 2019 statement, Trump’s Department of Commerce announced that Huawei would be put on the Department’s ‘entity list.’ The statement said, “Today, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it will be adding Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and its affiliates to the Bureau’s Entity List.”

The Commerce Department’s statement continued, saying, “This action stems from information available to the Department that provides a reasonable basis to conclude that Huawei is engaged in activities that are contrary to U.S. national security or foreign policy interest.”

Now Reuters exclusively reports that the Biden Administration “approved license applications worth hundreds of millions of dollars for China’s black-listed telecom company Huawei to buy chips for its growing auto component business, two people familiar with the matter said.”

China reportedly decided “pivoting” to automobile components would allow the Communist country, infamous for spying, to get around the United State’s hardline stance on banning trade regarding chips for 5g use with China.

The report indicated that both Sen. Tom Cotton and Sen. Marco Rubio were against the Biden administration’s move to allow China to circumvent the trade bans openly.

“It’s unacceptable for the Biden administration to ease the pressure campaign against Chinese spy companies like Huawei,” Sen. Tom Cotton said in a statement to Reuters.

In-kind, Sen. Rubio told the publication that the Biden Administration’s approval is “yet another example of President Biden’s failure to protect America’s economic and national security.” Rubio accused Huawei of promoting “digital authoritarianism” and demanded the Biden Administration enact harsher trade restrictions.

Biden’s Department of Commerce responded to the Reuters’ report claiming the agency continues “to restrict Huawei’s access to commodities, software, or technology for activities that could harm U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.”

News 18 out of India reported July 12 that Huawei began investing a significant amount in its Internet of Vehicles Laboratory (IoV Lab) in 2012. The report said that the Chinese spy company’s lab was “dedicated to researching technologies for electric vehicles, as there was no concept of intelligent vehicles and autonomous driving in the industry at that point in time.”

By October 2020, Huawei is not responsible for making autonomous vehicle systems through its initiative, Huawei Inside. The company spokesman said that Huawei sees its 5g technology as an aid to autonomous cars.

“The main application scenarios of 5g among autonomous cars will include tele-operated driving (TOD), high-density vehicle platooning, and rapid and coordinated lane-change assistance,” the report states.

The Chinese spy company believes the future for Huawei Inside is to have fleets of vehicles that are “remotely driven and coordinated,” indicating its mission is more than just making up the cost of the Trump trade ban.

 

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