Chinese Communist Party trying to dominate global communication networks: Pompeo

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has stated that the Chinese Communist Party isn’t solely crushing freedom in Hong Kong and threatening a free Taiwan but in addition trying to dominate the global communication networks.

“Today, the Chinese Communist Party is crushing freedom in Hong Kong. It is threatening a free Taiwan and trying to dominate the world communications networks,” Pompeo stated throughout a go to to Iowa on Friday (native time).

“A few weeks back, I read a report about the Chinese Communist Party forcing mass abortions and sterilisation on Chinese Muslims in Western China. These are some of the most gross human rights violations we have seen and I have referred to it as the stain of the century,” he added.

On Friday, Washington booked 5 Chinese international nationals and two Chinese entities beneath the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. It additionally imposed visa sanctions on sure staff of Chinese know-how corporations together with Huawei that present materials help to regimes partaking in human rights abuses globally.

In an announcement on Wednesday, Pompeo had introduced the restrictions and stated: “Telecommunications companies around the world should consider themselves on notice: If they are doing business with Huawei, they are doing business with human rights abusers.”

Pompeo had stated that Huawei is an arm of the CCP’s surveillance state that censors political dissidents and allows mass internment camps in Xinjiang and the indentured servitude of its inhabitants shipped throughout China.

The US motion comes a day after the UK introduced its determination to ban British corporations from shopping for Huawei-produced tools for 5G networks from the tip of the 12 months.

US President Donald Trump known as Chinese technology “untrustworthy”.

“We confronted untrustworthy Chinese technology and telecom providers. We convinced many countries not to use Huawei because it’s a big security risk. Just today, the UK announced that they are not going to be using it,” Trump had stated on Wednesday.

The United States had designated Chinese telecom corporations Huawei and ZTE Corp as nationwide safety threats, saying they’ve shut ties with the Chinese Communist Party and China’s army equipment.