Britain and the US have moved against one of China’s biggest telecoms equipment makers, adding to a growing list of restrictions imposed by western governments on Chinese companies on national security grounds.
The measures against ZTE Corp, which cuts it off from US suppliers and bars it entirely from the UK, comes amid a particularly aggressive move by the Trump administration, which has already used a secretive national security committee to block or force changes to several Chinese-linked deals.
It also is likely to add to mounting economic tension between Washington and Beijing, which are locked in a rhetorical trade war that threatens to impose tariffs on $150bn in bilateral trade.
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