US bans new Huawei equipment sales over ‘unacceptable risk’ to national security
by Reuters from World news | The Guardian on (#667FP)
Bar on telecommunications products from firms including ZTE, Dahua and Hikvision are part of latest crackdown on Chinese tech giants amid spying fears
The Biden administration has banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE because they pose an unacceptable risk" to US national security.
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Friday it had adopted the final rules, which also bar the sale or import of equipment made by Chinese surveillance equipment maker Dahua Technology, video surveillance firm Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology and telecoms firm Hytera Communications Corp.
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