Huawei is suing the US government over its ban on government agencies buying equipment from the Chinese company, raising the stakes in an ongoing confrontation between Washington and one of China’s biggest corporate champions.
People familiar with the legal case told the Financial Times that the Chinese telecoms supplier would this week announce a legal case against the ban, which was enacted last year on national security grounds under the John S McCain National Defence Authorisation Act. Huawei will argue the ban is unconstitutional.
Officials in the US have long argued that Huawei equipment in the country’s telecoms networks constitutes a security threat, as it could potentially be used by Beijing either to interfere with those networks or to spy on the US.