China Responds to UK Huawei Decision

China said on Wednesday that British Prime Minister Ban Huawei’s participation in the fifth-generation network is frustrating, and that other Chinese companies have followed headlines of how UK treat the telecommunications giant, which is harmful to investment.

Liu Xiaoming, China’s Ambassador to the UK, said ‘the way you treat Huawei will be followed very closely by other Chinese businesses’ as he said the decision had ‘undermined the trust between the two countries’. 

China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Britain had excluded the tech giant ‘without any concrete evidence’ and had colluded with the White House to ‘discriminate’ against the company.

He said: ‘I think it undermined the trust between the two countries. Trust, mutual trust, mutual respect are really the basics for a relationship, not only between countries but even between individuals.