President Biden’s nominee to lead the Commerce Department would not commit to keeping Huawei on the U.S. entities blacklist after the Trump administration deemed the Chinese telecom company a national security threat and sought to limit its sway worldwide and its access to U.S. markets.
Gina Raimondo, the Democratic governor of Rhode Island, often took a strong rhetorical stance on China throughout her Tuesday confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee, but she declined to promise that Huawei would remain on the Commerce Department’s “entities list” for companies deemed to be national security threats.
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