huawei founder Ren Zhengfei
Huawei filed a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States this week, renewing concerns about whether the Biden administration will keep Huawei on the Commerce Department’s blacklist.
The lawsuit filed by Huawei on Feb. 8 in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seeks a review of the FCC’s ruling last year that found Huawei posed a national security threat to the United States and blocked a multibillion-dollar deal between the U.S. telecommunications carrier and Huawei, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The lawsuit is the latest challenge launched by Huawei to the U.S. sanctions blocking action in recent years.
An FCC spokesman said the FCC determined last year that Huawei posed a threat to national security based on overwhelming evidence provided by numerous national security agencies, and they will continue to defend that decision.
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has said the company will not engage in espionage on behalf of any country.
On Feb. 9, Ren called on the Biden Administration to shift to a policy of reciprocity and said he would like to hear from Biden when he attended the inauguration of the Smart Mine Innovation Lab in Taiyuan, Shanxi province. “We still want to be able to buy a lot of American parts and machinery in order for American companies to also grow with the Chinese economy,” he said. He said.
So far, the Biden administration has still not taken a clear position on Huawei. Commerce Secretary nominee Gina Raimondo refused to commit to keeping Huawei on the Commerce Department’s list during her Senate confirmation hearings.
This week’s lawsuit is the 2nd Time Huawei has taken the FCC to court since 2019. 2019’s case is still pending. 2020 a federal judge in Texas dismissed a Huawei lawsuit against U.S. law.
Huawei has a long history of working with rural telecom operators across the U.S. who recognize Huawei’s prices and services. Company executives had hoped that Huawei would partner with larger carriers and market its smartphones to Americans. However, those hopes were dashed by Trump.
In addition to blocking exports of U.S. technology to Huawei, the Trump Administration launched two criminal indictments against Huawei, accusing it of stealing technology and evading sanctions against Iran. As a result, Huawei Princess Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada and placed under house arrest for more than two years, and is still awaiting extradition to the U.S. for sentencing. Beijing retaliated against Canada by arresting two Canadians and imprisoning them to date.
In August 2020, the U.S. Commerce Department again tightened its export ban on Huawei, cutting off the supply of chips that are considered the lifeblood of its smartphones and telecom equipment. In the fourth quarter of last year, its phone shipments fell more than 40 percent from a year earlier. 2020 In November, Huawei sold its low-cost smartphone brand Honor.
Bloomberg reports that last week, Biden’s Commerce Secretary nominee Gina Marie Raimondo refused to commit to keeping Huawei on the Commerce Department’s list of entities. Subsequently, House Republicans issued a statement calling for Huawei to remain on the entity list and said they would put Raimondo’s confirmation on hold until the Biden administration clarifies its support for export control policies against Chinese Communist companies involved in the genocide.
Biden spoke with Xi Jinping for the first time since taking office on the evening of February 10, New Year’s Eve of the Chinese New Year. There is a lot of interest in whether the Biden administration will ease sanctions against Huawei in the future.
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