The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday described US legislation targeting technology giant Huawei and other Chinese telecommunications companies as "hysteria."
From the US to Poland, the embattled Chinese company and some of its employees have been targeted by authorities as Western countries seek to limit its scope of operations domestically due to security fears and allegations of intellectual property theft.
Huawei targeted around the world:
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US lawmakers put forward a bipartisan bill on Wednesday to block the sale of US chips to Chinese telecommunications companies. Huawei and ZTE were cited in the draft law, with one US lawmaker describing Huawei as "an intelligence-gathering arms of the Chinese Communist Party."
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Several top Huawei officials have been arrested across the globe. Poland detained Huawei executive Wang Weijing last Friday on espionage-related charges. In Canada, CFO Meng Wanzhou is on house arrest pending a US extradition request.
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The German government has actively sought ways to prevent Huawei from building the country's 5G network, according to business newspaper Handelsblatt. Other countries, including the US, have already enacted bans.