Huawei is a national security concern, says Trump

Asserting that Chinese technology giant Huawei is a national security concern for the United States, President Donald Trump on Wednesday said doing business with the company is not part of the ongoing trade negotiations with China.

“It’s a national security concern. Huawei is a big concern of our military, of our intelligence agencies. And we are not doing business with Huawei,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House.

He was responding to questions on the Chinese technological giant, which seemingly has a monopoly on 5G technology, that has not been banned from major parts of the U.S.

“It’ll stop almost completely in a very short period of time. And we’ll see what happens with respect to China. But Huawei has been not a player that we want to discuss, we want to talk about, right now,” Trump said.

“We’re not going to be doing business with Huawei. We’re going to do our own business, you know, the old-fashioned way. We’ll do right from within the United States, which is what I’ve been saying for a long time,” said the U.S. President in response to a question.