Australia maintains 2-year ban on Huawei
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Australia’s new government has decided to maintain a two-year-old ban on Chinese tech giant Huawei from working on the nation’s high-speed broadband network.
Attorney General George Brandis said in a statement yesterday the conservative government elected last month has received briefings from national security agencies on the ban. He declined to detail the reasons for keeping it in place.
“As a matter of long-established practice, the government does not comment on advice from the national security agencies,” Brandis said.
The previous center-left Labor Party government banned the Australian subsidiary of Huawei Technologies Ltd in late 2011 from tendering for work on multi-billion dollar National Broadband Network based on security concerns. The then-conservative opposition criticized the ban and vowed to review the decision in government.
Huawei Australia Chairman John Lord has maintained his company poses no threat and complained that the reasons for the ban were never explained.
Lord argues the company’s reputation was damaged by the US House Intelligence Committee report last year that concluded Huawei and fellow Chinese company ZTE Corp posed “national security threats” to the United States.
China has urged joint efforts with Australia to provide a fair environment for enterprises from both nations in response to the decision on maintaining the ban on Huawei.
“China has always opposed pleading national security as an excuse for disturbing normal economic and trade cooperation between two countries,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said yesterday.
“We hope that both countries can work together to create favorable conditions and a fair environment for enterprises from both sides to conduct cooperation based on mutual respect and equality in line with the principles of market economy,” Hua told reporters.
Hua said China and Australia have kept close contacts since the new Australia administration was established in September. The two countries share broad common interests, she said, adding that it accords with both sides’ core interests to conduct mutually beneficial cooperation based on equality and mutual respect.
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