14 DAY TRIAL // U.S. President Donald Trump took the sanction war with Huawei to a completely new level, placing the company on the entity list back in May 2019 and essentially banning it from working with American firms.
This caused quite a nightmare for Huawei, as the Chinese tech behemoth was no longer allowed to install Android on its mobile devices and equip them with Google services.
In return, Huawei, which often denied all accusations and claims of a collaboration with the Chinese government, started investing in its own in-house operating system and suite of apps supposed to replace Android and Google’s services, though it goes without saying a decline in global sales was something impossible to avoid.
Everybody tight-lipped on the restrictions
In the meantime, some U.S. partners still received temporary licenses to continue working with Huawei, but according to a report from Reuters, the Trump administrations revoked all of them only a few days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
In other words, Trump wants to leave the office with a bang, giving Huawei more reasons to worry about its future, especially as right now, it’s still not known how Biden would handle this hot topic.
Huawei has repeatedly denied all accusations of working with the Beijing authorities, so it’ll certainly be interesting to see how the whole thing would change under the new administration.
Intel is one of the companies no longer allowed to work with Huawei following the new restrictions signed by Donald Trump, but an official statement in this regard hasn’t been offered.
Huawei hasn’t commented on the new sanctions either, most likely as the company is waiting for the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden, possibly in an attempt to see how it can work out the whole thing and start working with American firms just like before the 2019 ban.