GOP senators urge Biden nominee to keep Chinese Huawei on blacklist

Published January 30, 2021 12:05am ET



A trio of Republican senators called on President Biden’s nominee for commerce secretary to promise to keep Chinese Communist Party-linked telecom giant Huawei on the U.S. trade blacklist after the Trump administration deemed it a national security threat.

Gina Raimondo, the Democratic governor of Rhode Island, often took a strong rhetorical stance on China throughout her confirmation hearing on Tuesday but declined to promise that Huawei would remain on the Commerce Department’s “entities list.”

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