China Said to Warn India of Reverse Sanctions if Huawei Is Blocked

China Said to Warn India of Reverse Sanctions if Huawei Is Blocked

China has asked India not to stop its Huawei Technologies from doing business in the country, there may be a warning to Indian firms running in China.

Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that India is testing to set up next-generation 5G cellular network in the next few months, but has not yet considered whether it will invite Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer.

Huawei, the world's largest company to create such a gear, is in the center of a geopolitical tug of war between China and America.

 US President Donald Trump's administration cited national security concerns and put the company in blacklist in May. 

It has asked its colleagues not to use Huawei's equipment, which says that China can exploit for espionage.

For internal discussion in New Delhi, two sources said that India's Ambassador to Beijing, Vikram Mishri, was asked to the Chinese Foreign Ministry on 10 July to discuss the US campaign to keep China out of the 5G mobile infrastructure worldwide. Listen to China's concerns.

During the meeting, Chinese officials said there could be a "reverse ban" on Indian firms engaged in trade in China, with Washington pressure that India should block Huawei, one of the sources said in a readout of the ambassador's meeting Cited.

The Indian Foreign Ministry did not respond to the request for comment. China's foreign ministry also did not respond to Reuters' request for comment on the matter.

Stress on business, sector

Indian companies have very little presence in China as compared to other major economies. But Infosys, TCS, Drs. Reddy's Laboratories, including Reliance Industries and Mahindra & Mahindra, have a foothold in manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and outsourcing.

A possible line from Huawei could revive tensions in wider India-China relations, as both sides have not been making high-level efforts to escalate their long-standing territorial disputes.

In October, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host the Chinese President Xi Jinping's parliamentary constituency in the holy Hindu city of North India, where both are expected to address trade issues, including $ 53 billion (about Rs 3,75,213 crore). is. The trade deficit in 2018/19 concerns India.

The main right-wing group associated with Modi's ruling coalition, which has a long-standing mistrust with China and promotes self-reliance in the economy, has further sparked criticism of Huawei.

In a letter to Modi last week, Ashwani Mahajan, head of the economic wing of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, said that there were concerns about Huawei's operations in India.

"We are not yet sure about trusting Huawei as a country. Globally, Chinese companies, including Huawei, are facing accusations that they are 'weakening' projects, and themselves and their homes." Setting up the house to enable them to set back and close them remotely. If necessary, "he wrote.

Security concerns

Minister Prasad told Parliament that six proposals have been received for 5G technology trials, including Huawei. He did not name others, but companies such as Sweden's Ericsson Finland's Nokia and South Korea's Samsung Electronics are expected to participate.

Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, Dr. K. A high-level group of officials, including Vijay Raghavan and representatives from the departments of telecommunications, information technology, and intelligence services, are overseeing whether to open the 5G tests.

The committee found no evidence to suggest that Huawei used "back-door" programs or used malware to collect data in its current operations in India, the first source and one from the federal telecommunications ministry The other officer said.

The Telecom Ministry said that the interior ministry, which is responsible for the security of the infrastructure, had not issued any directive to ban Huawei's entry.

"We cannot reject them just because they are Chinese," the official said.

One option suggested by a technical expert on the government's National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) is to ensure that both hardware and software are not separate from Huawei for the proposed fifth-generation network.

The government should obtain a wireless carrier, which Huawei, NSAB specialist V. Will roll out 5G services to use Indian-made software to drive equipment supplied by gearmakers such as Kamakoti, in an internal presentation recently reviewed by Reuters.