Donald Trump says the US does not want to discuss Huawei ‘national security concern’ with China
- The US president has said in the past has that he would be open to including Huawei in talks to reach a trade deal with Beijing
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States did not want to discuss its blacklisting of Huawei Technologies with China as the two biggest world economies try to end escalating trade tensions.
“It’s a national security concern,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Huawei is a big concern of our military, of our intelligence agencies, and we are not doing business with Huawei.
“And we’ll see what happens with respect to China, but Huawei has been not a player that we want to discuss, (that) we want to talk about right now.”
It was unclear whether Trump’s comments indicated a change on whether he would be open to discussing the Chinese tech giant in trade talks with Beijing.
Trump has said in the past that he would be open to including Huawei in talks to reach a trade deal. He and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed this summer that the United States would ease restrictions on Huawei Technologies and that China would make unspecified purchases of US farm products.