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Zhenhua Lu

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has dismissed Donald Trump’s suggestion that the company be included in a trade deal between the United States and China.
In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Ren said the idea was a “big joke”, adding that the Chinese telecoms giant had nothing to do with the US-China trade war.
“The US has never bought products from us. Even if the US wants to buy our products in the future, I may not sell to them. There is no need for negotiation,” said Ren.
“I will ignore Trump. Then with whom can he negotiate?
“If he calls me, I may not answer, but he doesn’t have my number. I see his tweets and think it’s laughable because they’re self-contradictory,” he told the network. “How did he become a master of the art of the deal?”
Ren’s comment came days after the US President suggested last Thursday that the trade talks between Washington and Beijing would include Huawei although the telecommunication equipment maker posed a “danger” to US national security.
“Huawei is something that’s very dangerous,” Trump said. “You look at what they’ve done from a security standpoint, from a military standpoint, it’s very dangerous.”

Trump then continued: “If we made a deal, I could imagine Huawei possibly being included in some form of or some part of a trade deal”.
The trade talks between the US and China stalled after the two sides failed to reach an agreement in the latest round of negotiations in Washington in early May.
Since then, both sides have dramatically escalated the dispute, by imposing punitive extra tariffs on each other’s exports, accusing each other of frequently changing positions and with no sign of renewing the talks.




Earlier this month Washington blacklisted Huawei, blocking the Shenzhen-based company from buying American software and components.
The company is also facing multiple indictments from the US Justice Department over alleged economic espionage and violation of US sanctions on Iran.
Will Trump’s assault on Huawei create a digital iron curtain?
Ren’s daughter Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, the tech giant’s chief financial officer, was arrested by Canadian authority at Vancouver airport on December 1 at the request of the US government, which has charged her with fraud relating to sanctions on Iran.
Growing disquiet in China as US steps up war on tech champions
In late January, the US Justice Department filed a formal request to Canada to extradite Meng for trial in the US.

Meng is under is currently on bail in one of her homes in Vancouver.
Trump suggested he may intervene in the Justice Department’s case against Meng in an interview with Reuters in mid-December.




“If I think it’s good for the country, if I think it’s good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made – which is a very important thing. What’s good for national security – I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary,” Trump said.
One of Meng’s lawyers, Richard Peck, said in a court hearing in March that there were concerns over the “political character” of the case.
“There are serious concerns … concerns about political character and motivation, comments by the US president,” Peck said.
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Nelson Cunningham, a former assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York has previously told the South China Morning Post that the US president had the “ultimate discretion” to decide on whether to pursue or drop a federal case.
“The president ultimately sets prosecution policy for the United States. In other words, the president could legitimately say [to the Justice Department] – this is the way that I would like this prosecution to be handled,” Cunningham said.


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Huawei chief Ren Zhengfei dismisses Donald Trump’s suggestion tech giant could play role in China trade deal

Ren Zhengfei told Bloomberg that the trade war was nothing to do with Huawei. Photo: Bloomberg

FILE - In this Friday, May 3, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. Trump issued an executive order Wednesday, May 15, 2019, apparently aimed at banning equipment from Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei from U.S. networks. It does not name specific countries or companies and gives the Department of Commerce 150 days to come up with regulations. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The Huawei Technologies Co. logo is displayed atop an office building at the company's production facility in this aerial photograph taken in Dongguan, China, on Thursday, May 23, 2019. Huawei is seeking about $1 billion from a small group of lenders, its first major funding test after getting hit with U.S. curbs that threaten to cut off access to critical suppliers. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

Huawei boss defends US companies against rising Chinese nationalism

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has urged Chinese consumers not to blame US companies for the effects of the trade war. Photo: Xinhua

Steve Bannon says killing Huawei more important than trade deal with China

Donald Trump’s controversial former strategist Steve Bannon (right) says he is dedicating all his time to shutting Chinese companies out of US capital markets. Photo: Reuters

In China, a growing disquiet about US efforts to contain its tech champions

Huawei, the world’s No 1 telecommunications network equipment maker, has dominated headlines. Photo: Reuters

If Donald Trump kills off Chinese firm Huawei, do Asia’s 5G dreams die?

Some believe Huawei faces an existential threat. Photo: Bloomberg

A view of the skyline of Singapore October 16, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar Su

epa07592499 US President Donald J. Trump announces he willl not negotiate an infrastructure bill with Democratic Speaker of the House from California Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader from New York Chuck Schumer as long as they are pursuing investigations into him and his administration in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 22 May 2019. Trump said he cut short a meeting with Democratic leaders on infrastructure, adding 'I don't do coverups'. EPA-EFE/JIM LO SCALZO

A screen displays information during the opening ceremony of the Huawei Technologies Co. Cyber Security Transparency Centre in Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. Huawei, no longer content with defending itself against U.S. accusations of espionage and bank fraud, is taking the initiative with a full-blown legal offensive. Photographer: Yuriko Nakao/Bloomberg

US President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters

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Company’s founder tells interviewer that ‘even if the US wants to buy our products I may not sell to them’


Company’s founder tells interviewer that ‘even if the US wants to buy our products I may not sell to them’.
