US to restrict visas for employees of Huawei, other Chinese tech firms
- US State Department is targeting certain employees for their roles in enabling human rights abuses, says Mike Pompeo
- The move puts further pressure on Huawei after Britain announced a plan to phase the company out of the UK’s 5G networks
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his department was targeting employees of Huawei and possibly other Chinese technology companies for their role in enabling human rights abuses at home and abroad, hammering at a theme that has guided his hardline stance against Beijing.
“The UK joins the United States and now many other democracies becoming … nations free of untrusted 5G vendors,” Pompeo said on Wednesday.
“The United States has a Huawei announcement of our own today,” Pompeo told reporters in Washington. “The State Department will impose visa restrictions on certain employees of Chinese technology companies like Huawei that provide material support to regimes engaging in human rights violations and abuses globally.”
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