Alphabet Inc’s Google has cautioned if the United States administration makes steps towards extending ban over China’s telecommunication giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, it would risk compromising its national security, according to the Financial Times reports on Thursday.
According to Reuters news reports, Google’s move has come in the midst of tension escalation between the world’s two largest economies, who ratcheted up tariffs threats in a spat over what the American officials call Beijing’s unfair trade practices.
While the US sanctions are completely expected to hurt Huawei in a short-term period, but industry experts have said it could also force the firm, including other Chinese companies too, to become independently self-reliant by owning its development – developing additional home-grom technologies – hurting the US companies dominance like Google in a longer term.
In particular, Google was concerned the US-China conflict would unable Google to update its new Android operating system version on Huawei’s smartphones, which led an argument from Google that it would directly prompt Huawei to develop its own copy of the software, the FT reported with citing people who were briefed over Google’s efforts.
The newspaper stated the search giant has argued a modified version of Android by Huawei would be more susceptible to being hacked.
In May, President Donald Trump administration has added Huawei to a trade blacklist. The US Department of Commerce and Google were not immediately available for comment to a request.