Biden nominee for key China export post expects Huawei to remain blacklisted

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominee to a post overseeing export policy on China said on Tuesday he sees Chinese telecoms firm Huawei as a national security threat and expects to keep the company on a trade blacklist unless “things change.”

If confirmed as Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, former Pentagon official Alan Estevez also pledged to “look at” Honor Device Co – a handset unit spun off of Huawei – to see whether the telecommunications company was using the spinoff brand to minimize or circumvent its own blacklist designation.