{"id":809793,"date":"2021-09-24T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T16:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=809793"},"modified":"2021-09-24T12:48:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T16:48:52","slug":"us-commerce-chief-more-action-to-be-taken-on-huawei-if-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-commerce-chief-more-action-to-be-taken-on-huawei-if-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"US Commerce Chief: More Action To Be Taken on Huawei if Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-commerce-chief-more-action-to-be-taken-on-huawei-if-needed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=809793&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Commerce Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gina-raimondo\">Gina Raimondo<\/a> said on Thursday the Biden administration will take further action against Chinese telecoms firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-huawei\">Huawei<\/a> if necessary, after some Republican lawmakers pressed for more steps.<\/p>\n<p>Washington says Huawei is a national security threat on a variety of grounds and aggressively lobbied other countries not to use Huawei equipment in next-generation 5G networks. Citing Huawei\u2019s ties to the Chinese regime and military, Washington says this makes the company susceptible to \u201cChinese governmental pressure to participate in espionage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a Reuters interview, Raimondo was asked about Huawei and she recounted how she told Republican lawmakers in January \u201cthat I wouldn\u2019t be soft and now the proof\u2019s in the pudding\u2014we haven\u2019t been. They shouldn\u2019t worry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s administration added Huawei to the U.S. Entity List in May 2019. Raimondo said the list \u201cis a really powerful tool in our toolbox, and we will use it to the fullest extent possible to protect American national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cWill we do more? If we need to, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3914382\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/07\/22\/Raimondo_White-house-1200x834.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-3914382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Raimondo_White-house-600x417-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3914382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Raimondo_White-house-600x417-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on July 22, 2021. (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Huawei declined to comment on Raimondo\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei said in November 2020, it was selling its budget brand smartphone unit, Honor Device Co, to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers. Last month, a group of 14 Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives asked the Commerce Department to add Honor to the Entity List.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican lawmakers said Honor was spun off \u201cto evade U.S. export control policies.\u201d The letter cited analysts saying that \u201cselling Honor gave it access to the semiconductor chips and software it relied on and would have presumably been blocked had the divestiture not gone through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raimondo noted the Commerce Department has continued to add other companies to the Entity List.<\/p>\n<p>In June, five additional Chinese companies were added after the department said they were involved with the forced labor of Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re continuing to work on our export controls,\u201d Raimondo said.<\/p>\n<p><em>By David Shepardson<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/default-user.png\" alt=\"Reuters\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Thursday the Biden administration will take further action against Chinese telecoms firm Huawei if necessary, after some Republican lawmakers pressed for more steps. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}