The US has strengthened restrictions against Huawei

The US Department of Commerce has decided to further restrict Huawei Technologies' access to commercially available chips: the company will not be able to buy third-party chips created using American technology, CNBC reports . Prior to this, such restrictions applied only to the company's own chips.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the agency has added 38 Huawei affiliates to the US government's economic blacklist, up from 152 affiliates since May 2019.

“The Trump administration sees Huawei for what it is, the hand of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). We will not tolerate CCP attempts to undermine the privacy of our citizens, the intellectual property of our businesses, or the integrity of next-generation networks around the world,” Pompeo said.

The secretary added that the rule change "will prevent Huawei from circumventing US law by producing alternative chips and providing off-the-shelf circuits."

• Huawei is the world's largest manufacturer of telecom equipment, the second smartphone manufacturer and the only Chinese company that earns more abroad than at home. About the founder of the company - here.

• In May 2019, the US Department of Commerce decided to blacklist Huawei for "activities contrary to the country's national security." A year later, Donald Trump extended the ban on the use of telecom equipment by Chinese IT giants led by Huawei.

• For a year now, Google has been refusing to cooperate with Huawei: due to the position of the American authorities, the company has banned the Chinese smartphone manufacturer from using its services and installing the operating system on new devices.

• After that, the company began to develop its own operating system and release updates to older models that were released before the Google ban.