Huawei, caught in the crossfire of a larger U.S.-China trade and technology battle, has given masks to a number of countries around the world.
Republican Rep. Mark Green last weekend claimed in a Fox News interview — without naming sources — that French President Emmanuel Macron asked Chinese President Xi Jinping for a billion masks. Green also alleged that Xi told Macron that China would send France the masks if it used Huawei in its 5G infrastructure.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Zhao Lijian also responded, saying that the Tennessee lawmaker's comments proved that "certain individuals in the U.S. resort to lies and disinformation to sabotage international cooperation against the pandemic.""It would be naive in the extreme to think that these efforts were totally altruistic," Fergus Ryan, an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute , told CNBC.
on behalf of China. The director was subsequently fired. Huawei said at the time the employee's actions had "no relation to the company." "We must be aware there is a geo-political component including a struggle for influence through spinning and the 'politics of generosity'. Armed with facts, we need to defend Europe against its detractors,"Josep Borrell, high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs, said in aHuawei also donated masks and other equipment to New York, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, even though Huawei is effectively banned in the United States.
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