Technology is true target of US attack on China, says diplomat
- Chinese ambassador to Britain joins chorus of criticism of US ‘economic bullying’
- Accuses Washington of ulterior motive behind trade war
The real motive behind Washington’s aggression towards China is to wage a technology war to contain the country’s rise, the Chinese ambassador to Britain said early this week, during a visit to the southeastern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen.
Delivering a speech at Huawei University in Shenzhen, ambassador Liu Xiaoming said the US was only using the trade dispute with China to disguise its intention of containing the country’s emergence as a new technological power.
The university is a training, research and development centre providing technical and career development to technology giant Huawei’s staff.
A state television report on Friday into Liu’s assessment followed the American ban against Huawei Technologies, and a suggestion by US President Donald Trump that the Chinese telecom giant could be a bargaining chip in the trade talks with Beijing, in a deviation from his trade negotiators’ longheld position.
“If we made a deal, I could imagine Huawei possibly being included in some form of or some part of a trade deal,” Trump said on Thursday at the White House after speaking about his plan to give a multibillion-dollar subsidy package to American farmers affected by the tariff war.
“There are many reasons for the US to wage the trade war with China, but they are not the real motives: on face value they launched a trade war, but underlying it is the waging of a technology war to curb China’s growth in technological advancement,” Liu said, according to CCTV on Friday.
