Brazil’s Chinese Embassy has dismissed U.S. concerns about Huawei

China has expressed strong opposition to the statement of the US Embassy, ​​which has expressed concern about the role of Chinese tech company Huawei in telecommunications infrastructure around the world.

“We express strong dissatisfaction and fierce opposition to such actions of publicly forcing and intervening in the construction of 5G in other countries and interfering with normal cooperation between China and Brazil,” said the Chinese embassy in Brazil.

“The United States remains strongly concerned about Huawei’s potential role in telecommunications infrastructure not only in Brazil, but in other countries around the world,” said a spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Brazil regarding 5G. Because I said. A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy expressed strong opposition to this type of interference with other countries’ 5G construction and the weakening of normal cooperation between China and Brazil.

As U.S. security issues with Chinese Telecommunications Company Huawei rise, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said earlier this week about building a 5G network in Brazil based on U.S. technology. We talked.

Sullivan will meet with Brazil’s President Jail Borsonaro and other senior officials on a high-level visit to Brazil on Thursday to deforest Amazon, provide vaccines, cooperate in telecommunications, cybersecurity, and Brazil is NATO’s global partner. Discussed the prospect of becoming.

“Today, security adviser Jake Sullivan discusses cybersecurity issues with Fabio Faria and ensures that all Brazilians can benefit from the 5G network,” said the US Embassy in Brazil. Tweeted.

Sputnik reported that the two parties discussed the introduction of Open RAN technology, an innovative US-based tool for building wireless technologies like 5G, into the Brazilian market. “We mainly talked about 5G. We will work together to elaborate on the Open RAN solution,” said Fabio Faria, Brazilian Minister of Communications, who also met Sullivan.

This move is due to Huawei Technologies being added to the list of restricted entities and banned from accessing US hardware and software.

Switching cooperation with China on 5G is a global partnership from Brazil to NATO, as the use of telecommunications suppliers labeled unreliable in Washington hinders cooperation between Brazil and the United States on defense and security. Will give way.