The Chinese company Huawei can secretly tap
into communications through the networking
equipment it sells globally, a U.S. official
charged as the White House stepped up efforts
to persuade allies to ban the gear from next-
generation cellular networks.
The U.S. national security adviser, Robert O’Brien,
made the statement at an Atlantic Council forum
on Tuesday evening after The Wall Street Journal
quoted him as saying Huawei can “access
sensitive and personal information” in systems
it sells and maintains globally. O’Brien did not
provide any evidence to support the claim.
U.S. officials have long argued that Huawei is
duty-bound by Chinese law to spy on behalf of
the country’s ruling Communist Party. Huawei
denies that claim and issued a statement