By: Norhan Mahmoud
CAIRO, Mar. 7 (SEE)- China’s Huawei Technologies Ltd. telecom filed a case against the American Congress, objecting that the law which restricts the trade of its equipment by U.S. government is unconstitutional.
Such step is a decisive blow at the U.S. led campaign aimed at tightening the world’s gigantic tech provider’s noose. Otherwise, Huawei might miss the underway global tech rivalry with 5G technology paving its way to the market.
Branding the law as a “bill of attainder,” Huawei complains that this provision lonely excludes it from accessing the market. Besides, the entity condemns that the punishment could evolve to a “death penalty.”
Huawei has always been stuck in the middle of the US-China trade war. It has always faces cyber spying accusations, claiming that the Chinese Communist Party secretly supervises it.
Guo Ping, the company’s rotating chairman, told a news conference that Huawei is enforced to take this “legal action as a proper and last resort.” He added that the embargo will not only stifle the global competition but also increase consumer prices.
In December 2018, Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was detained over allegations of lying about transactions with Iran. Repatriation calls to free her are still going on.
The Chinese government has not issued any statements commenting on the case up till now.
Almost 40% of the international networks market is occupied by Huawei. And, it’s US sales has vanished since the law was put into action in 2012. Likewise, China’s ZTE Corp. faces the same crisis.
Various other countries have been restraining the use of Huawei’s equipment including Japan, Taiwan, Australia and others.
Huawei was established in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former deputy director of the People’s Liberation Army engineering corp.
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