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Calculated Shard: 25 (from laksa056)

2. Crawled Status Check

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa025.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-pol-trump-huawei-ban-20190515-story.html\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-pol-trump-huawei-ban-20190515-story.html\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-na-pol-trump-huawei-ban-20190515-story.html","crawl_time":1776007999,"first_indexed_time":1557954482,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,latimes!www,\/business\/la-na-pol-trump-huawei-ban-20190515-story.html s443","src_root_hash":"7344800029135033825","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Trump bans Huawei in U.S. markets, saying Chinese firm poses security threat - Los Angeles Times","meta_descriptions":["With trade talks at an impasse, Trump issues an executive order blocking U.S. companies from using products made by Huawei and other Chinese telecom firms."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Reporting from Washington — \nPresident Trump issued an executive order Wednesday giving his administration sweeping powers to block Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. and other foreign communications firms from doing business in the United States — a long-anticipated move he had postponed while Washington and Beijing were in intense trade negotiations.\nThe White House said the president was taking the action to “protect America from foreign adversaries who are actively and increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information and communications technology infrastructure and services in the United States.”\nTrump’s directive does not name any company from China or any other country, and senior administration officials, in a hastily arranged press call, would not talk about Huawei or any specific firm.\nBut the order was widely understood as one that targets Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, which has been in the crosshairs of America’s security and intelligence agencies.\nSen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), for example, singled out Huawei in a statement praising Trump’s order, calling the firm “a state-directed instrument of national power used by the Chinese government and Communist Party to destroy their international competitors, undermine U.S. companies, spy on foreign countries, and steal intellectual property and trade secrets.”\nFor months, U.S. officials have waged an aggressive campaign to restrain Huawei’s global expansion as a leading supplier of the next-generation 5G wireless networks. They have argued that using Huawei equipment poses risks of Chinese espionage or sabotage.\nTop Huawei executives\nhave vehemently denied they would allow the Chinese government to use their products for surveillance.\nWith the\ntrade talks at an impasse\nsince Friday, Trump signed\nan order that was prepared months ago\n. Although officials would not attribute the timing to any specific factor, its release came amid an intensifying standoff between Washington and Beijing and immediately added a new level of friction. Already, the two have engaged in escalating rounds of tit-for-tat tariffs that could damage the world’s two largest economies.\nDeclaring the problem of foreign adversaries seeking to exploit technological risks to be a national emergency, Trump’s order formalizes what was a de facto ban on Huawei in U.S. markets in recent years as the Pentagon and Congress made moves to discourage its growth.\nFew Americans own Huawei cellphones and only a small number of local U.S. telecom service providers in rural areas have Huawei gear in their systems. Even so, many in the U.S. intelligence community sought an official ban from the White House, saying it would make the dangers clear and help the administration’s\nefforts — so far only partly successful — to persuade key allies to shun Huawei\n.\nWashington has become increasingly worried about Beijing’s cyber intrusions and hacking of U.S. companies for sensitive information and technology and trade secrets. On Tuesday, during a Senate panel hearing on 5G and national security threats, lawmakers singled out Huawei in discussing the issue.\nSen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, “Now we’ve got a developing technology called 5G that if China dominates this market, we may not be able to do normal business or function normally, and we are sitting around looking at each other.”\nThe U.S. concerns about cyber theft were on the agenda during the trade talks with China, although U.S. negotiators reportedly dropped the issue recently.\nThe two sides broke off negotiations on Friday after the White House accused China of backing away from previous agreements, and Trump sharply escalated tariffs on Chinese goods. Chinese President\nXi Jinping responded with counter-tariffs on Monday\n.\nNo new talks are scheduled, although Trump and Xi are expected to meet on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit next month in Osaka, Japan.\nThere was no immediate reaction from China to the latest U.S. announcement.\nDerek Scissors, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute, said the Chinese would complain — “both for the sake of the trade talks and protecting Huawei’s good name.”\n“As a tactical ploy, Beijing might single out an American company as a security risk,” Scissors wrote in an email. “China has recently adopted a more sweeping national security review than ours and they could soon discover that some smaller American IT firm must be tightly restricted,” he said.\n“The point of this would be to frighten bigger U.S. firms and have them lobby the administration.”\nThe executive order authorizes the Commerce Department, with the consultation of other agencies, to block U.S. businesses from transactions of information and communications technology or services from a “foreign adversary” that poses an “unacceptable risk” to U.S. national security. Officials said the Commerce Department would have 150 days to develop implementation rules, although interim procedures are expected.\nThe Commerce Department rules would be retroactive to the date of Trump’s executive order.\nUnder existing law, the U.S. government can block foreign firms from acquiring American technology firms, and with China in mind, Congress recently expanded this authority. Trump’s order significantly adds to the government’s toolbox.\n“It is striking in how broad it is,” said Doug Brake, a broadband policy expert at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank. He noted that the impact of the order would depend on how the Commerce Department implements this new power.\n“So much rides on the processes Commerce sets up, how they do risk analysis of what can be allowed and what cannot,” he said.\nThe Trump administration, with bipartisan support in Congress, considers\nChina a top strategic adversary\nand threat to America’s security and economic interests — and technology is a major battleground in this rivalry.\nAgainst that backdrop, the White House has stepped up its rhetoric and moves to isolate Huawei and other Chinese telecom firms.\nAlthough U.S. officials have offered no public evidence of malicious code or so-called back doors in Huawei equipment, they argue that its products can’t be trusted because Beijing could at any time order Chinese companies to do its bidding.\nThe Pentagon already has moved to block sales of smartphones made by Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese firm, at its retail stores in military bases. And last year’s Defense Department appropriations measure threatened to cut off federal funds to universities using components made by Huawei, prompting UC Berkeley, Stanford University and many other schools to\nsever new research partnerships with Huawei.\nIn December, Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, who is the daughter of the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei,\nwas arrested in Vancouver, Canada, on a U.S. warrant. She is fighting extradition\nto the United States on charges that she and Huawei conspired to violate U.S. sanctions on Iran.\nHuawei also faces charges of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile. Meng and Huawei have denied all charges.\nThe company has fought back in recent months, filing a civil lawsuit in Canada and publicly denouncing Meng’s detention as politically motivated and a violation of her rights.\nThe latest from Washington »\nMore stories from Don Lee »\nMore to Read","attrs_markdown":"- [News](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/)\n  \n  - [Home Page](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/)\n  - [California](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california)\n  - [Election 2024](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/election-2024)\n  - [Housing & Homelessness](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/homeless-housing)\n  - [Politics](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics)\n  - [Science & Medicine](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science)\n  - [World & Nation](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation)\n- [Business](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business)\n  \n  - [Artificial Intelligence](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence)\n  - [Autos](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/autos)\n  - [Jobs, Labor & Workplace](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/jobs-labor)\n  - [Real Estate](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/real-estate)\n  - [Technology and the Internet](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology)\n- [California](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california)\n  \n  - [California Politics](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/california-law-politics)\n  - [Earthquakes](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/earthquakes)\n  - [Education](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/education)\n  - [Housing & Homelessness](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/homeless-housing)\n  - [L.A. 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[WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Trump%20bans%20Huawei%20in%20U.S.%20markets%2C%20saying%20Chinese%20firm%20poses%20security%20threat%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fla-na-pol-trump-huawei-ban-20190515-story.html)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nReporting from Washington — President Trump issued an executive order Wednesday giving his administration sweeping powers to block Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. and other foreign communications firms from doing business in the United States — a long-anticipated move he had postponed while Washington and Beijing were in intense trade negotiations.\n\nThe White House said the president was taking the action to “protect America from foreign adversaries who are actively and increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information and communications technology infrastructure and services in the United States.”\n\nTrump’s directive does not name any company from China or any other country, and senior administration officials, in a hastily arranged press call, would not talk about Huawei or any specific firm.\n\nAdvertisement\n\nBut the order was widely understood as one that targets Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, which has been in the crosshairs of America’s security and intelligence agencies.\n\nSen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), for example, singled out Huawei in a statement praising Trump’s order, calling the firm “a state-directed instrument of national power used by the Chinese government and Communist Party to destroy their international competitors, undermine U.S. companies, spy on foreign countries, and steal intellectual property and trade secrets.”\n\nFor months, U.S. officials have waged an aggressive campaign to restrain Huawei’s global expansion as a leading supplier of the next-generation 5G wireless networks. They have argued that using Huawei equipment poses risks of Chinese espionage or sabotage.\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[Top Huawei executives](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/projects\/la-fi-tn-huawei-5g-trade-war\/) have vehemently denied they would allow the Chinese government to use their products for surveillance.\n\nWith the [trade talks at an impasse](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-na-pol-us-china-trade-talks-20190509-story.html) since Friday, Trump signed [an order that was prepared months ago](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-pol-trump-huawei-20190213-story.html). Although officials would not attribute the timing to any specific factor, its release came amid an intensifying standoff between Washington and Beijing and immediately added a new level of friction. Already, the two have engaged in escalating rounds of tit-for-tat tariffs that could damage the world’s two largest economies.\n\nDeclaring the problem of foreign adversaries seeking to exploit technological risks to be a national emergency, Trump’s order formalizes what was a de facto ban on Huawei in U.S. markets in recent years as the Pentagon and Congress made moves to discourage its growth.\n\nFew Americans own Huawei cellphones and only a small number of local U.S. telecom service providers in rural areas have Huawei gear in their systems. Even so, many in the U.S. intelligence community sought an official ban from the White House, saying it would make the dangers clear and help the administration’s [efforts — so far only partly successful — to persuade key allies to shun Huawei](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-huawei-trump-20190221-story.html).\n\nWashington has become increasingly worried about Beijing’s cyber intrusions and hacking of U.S. companies for sensitive information and technology and trade secrets. On Tuesday, during a Senate panel hearing on 5G and national security threats, lawmakers singled out Huawei in discussing the issue.\n\nSen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, “Now we’ve got a developing technology called 5G that if China dominates this market, we may not be able to do normal business or function normally, and we are sitting around looking at each other.”\n\nAdvertisement\n\nThe U.S. concerns about cyber theft were on the agenda during the trade talks with China, although U.S. negotiators reportedly dropped the issue recently.\n\nThe two sides broke off negotiations on Friday after the White House accused China of backing away from previous agreements, and Trump sharply escalated tariffs on Chinese goods. Chinese President [Xi Jinping responded with counter-tariffs on Monday](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-china-trade-war-tariffs-20190513-story.html).\n\nNo new talks are scheduled, although Trump and Xi are expected to meet on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit next month in Osaka, Japan.\n\nThere was no immediate reaction from China to the latest U.S. announcement.\n\nDerek Scissors, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute, said the Chinese would complain — “both for the sake of the trade talks and protecting Huawei’s good name.”\n\n“As a tactical ploy, Beijing might single out an American company as a security risk,” Scissors wrote in an email. “China has recently adopted a more sweeping national security review than ours and they could soon discover that some smaller American IT firm must be tightly restricted,” he said.\n\n“The point of this would be to frighten bigger U.S. firms and have them lobby the administration.”\n\nAdvertisement\n\nThe executive order authorizes the Commerce Department, with the consultation of other agencies, to block U.S. businesses from transactions of information and communications technology or services from a “foreign adversary” that poses an “unacceptable risk” to U.S. national security. Officials said the Commerce Department would have 150 days to develop implementation rules, although interim procedures are expected.\n\nThe Commerce Department rules would be retroactive to the date of Trump’s executive order.\n\nUnder existing law, the U.S. government can block foreign firms from acquiring American technology firms, and with China in mind, Congress recently expanded this authority. Trump’s order significantly adds to the government’s toolbox.\n\n“It is striking in how broad it is,” said Doug Brake, a broadband policy expert at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank. He noted that the impact of the order would depend on how the Commerce Department implements this new power.\n\n“So much rides on the processes Commerce sets up, how they do risk analysis of what can be allowed and what cannot,” he said.\n\nThe Trump administration, with bipartisan support in Congress, considers [China a top strategic adversary](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-na-pol-us-china-20181231-story.html) and threat to America’s security and economic interests — and technology is a major battleground in this rivalry.\n\nAgainst that backdrop, the White House has stepped up its rhetoric and moves to isolate Huawei and other Chinese telecom firms.\n\nAdvertisement\n\nAlthough U.S. officials have offered no public evidence of malicious code or so-called back doors in Huawei equipment, they argue that its products can’t be trusted because Beijing could at any time order Chinese companies to do its bidding.\n\nThe Pentagon already has moved to block sales of smartphones made by Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese firm, at its retail stores in military bases. And last year’s Defense Department appropriations measure threatened to cut off federal funds to universities using components made by Huawei, prompting UC Berkeley, Stanford University and many other schools to [sever new research partnerships with Huawei.](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-na-pol-universities-ban-huawei-funding-donations-20190321-story.html)\n\nIn December, Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, who is the daughter of the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, [was arrested in Vancouver, Canada, on a U.S. warrant. She is fighting extradition](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-china-canada-20181212-story.html) to the United States on charges that she and Huawei conspired to violate U.S. sanctions on Iran.\n\nHuawei also faces charges of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile. Meng and Huawei have denied all charges.\n\nThe company has fought back in recent months, filing a civil lawsuit in Canada and publicly denouncing Meng’s detention as politically motivated and a violation of her rights.\n\n**[The latest from Washington »](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics)**\n\n**[More stories from Don Lee »](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-bio-don-lee-staff.html?page=9&)**\n\n### More to Read\n- [![Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, from left, US President Donald Trump, and Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. Trump signed an order aimed at thwarting state-level regulation of artificial intelligence, handing a policy win to tech industry leaders who've pressed for preemption of local rules. 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Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), for example, singled out Huawei in a statement praising Trump’s order, calling the firm “a state-directed instrument of national power used by the Chinese government and Communist Party to destroy their international competitors, undermine U.S. companies, spy on foreign countries, and steal intellectual property and trade secrets.”\n\nFor months, U.S. officials have waged an aggressive campaign to restrain Huawei’s global expansion as a leading supplier of the next-generation 5G wireless networks. They have argued that using Huawei equipment poses risks of Chinese espionage or sabotage.\n\n[Top Huawei executives](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/projects\/la-fi-tn-huawei-5g-trade-war\/) have vehemently denied they would allow the Chinese government to use their products for surveillance.\n\nWith the [trade talks at an impasse](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-na-pol-us-china-trade-talks-20190509-story.html) since Friday, Trump signed [an order that was prepared months ago](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-pol-trump-huawei-20190213-story.html). Although officials would not attribute the timing to any specific factor, its release came amid an intensifying standoff between Washington and Beijing and immediately added a new level of friction. Already, the two have engaged in escalating rounds of tit-for-tat tariffs that could damage the world’s two largest economies.\n\nDeclaring the problem of foreign adversaries seeking to exploit technological risks to be a national emergency, Trump’s order formalizes what was a de facto ban on Huawei in U.S. markets in recent years as the Pentagon and Congress made moves to discourage its growth.\n\nFew Americans own Huawei cellphones and only a small number of local U.S. telecom service providers in rural areas have Huawei gear in their systems. Even so, many in the U.S. intelligence community sought an official ban from the White House, saying it would make the dangers clear and help the administration’s [efforts — so far only partly successful — to persuade key allies to shun Huawei](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-huawei-trump-20190221-story.html).\n\nWashington has become increasingly worried about Beijing’s cyber intrusions and hacking of U.S. companies for sensitive information and technology and trade secrets. On Tuesday, during a Senate panel hearing on 5G and national security threats, lawmakers singled out Huawei in discussing the issue.\n\nSen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, “Now we’ve got a developing technology called 5G that if China dominates this market, we may not be able to do normal business or function normally, and we are sitting around looking at each other.”\n\nThe U.S. concerns about cyber theft were on the agenda during the trade talks with China, although U.S. negotiators reportedly dropped the issue recently.\n\nThe two sides broke off negotiations on Friday after the White House accused China of backing away from previous agreements, and Trump sharply escalated tariffs on Chinese goods. Chinese President [Xi Jinping responded with counter-tariffs on Monday](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-china-trade-war-tariffs-20190513-story.html).\n\nNo new talks are scheduled, although Trump and Xi are expected to meet on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit next month in Osaka, Japan.\n\nThere was no immediate reaction from China to the latest U.S. announcement.\n\nDerek Scissors, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute, said the Chinese would complain — “both for the sake of the trade talks and protecting Huawei’s good name.”\n\n“As a tactical ploy, Beijing might single out an American company as a security risk,” Scissors wrote in an email. “China has recently adopted a more sweeping national security review than ours and they could soon discover that some smaller American IT firm must be tightly restricted,” he said.\n\n“The point of this would be to frighten bigger U.S. firms and have them lobby the administration.”\n\nThe executive order authorizes the Commerce Department, with the consultation of other agencies, to block U.S. businesses from transactions of information and communications technology or services from a “foreign adversary” that poses an “unacceptable risk” to U.S. national security. Officials said the Commerce Department would have 150 days to develop implementation rules, although interim procedures are expected.\n\nThe Commerce Department rules would be retroactive to the date of Trump’s executive order.\n\nUnder existing law, the U.S. government can block foreign firms from acquiring American technology firms, and with China in mind, Congress recently expanded this authority. Trump’s order significantly adds to the government’s toolbox.\n\n“It is striking in how broad it is,” said Doug Brake, a broadband policy expert at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank. He noted that the impact of the order would depend on how the Commerce Department implements this new power.\n\n“So much rides on the processes Commerce sets up, how they do risk analysis of what can be allowed and what cannot,” he said.\n\nThe Trump administration, with bipartisan support in Congress, considers [China a top strategic adversary](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-na-pol-us-china-20181231-story.html) and threat to America’s security and economic interests — and technology is a major battleground in this rivalry.\n\nAgainst that backdrop, the White House has stepped up its rhetoric and moves to isolate Huawei and other Chinese telecom firms.\n\nAlthough U.S. officials have offered no public evidence of malicious code or so-called back doors in Huawei equipment, they argue that its products can’t be trusted because Beijing could at any time order Chinese companies to do its bidding.\n\nThe Pentagon already has moved to block sales of smartphones made by Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese firm, at its retail stores in military bases. And last year’s Defense Department appropriations measure threatened to cut off federal funds to universities using components made by Huawei, prompting UC Berkeley, Stanford University and many other schools to [sever new research partnerships with Huawei.](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-na-pol-universities-ban-huawei-funding-donations-20190321-story.html)\n\nIn December, Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, who is the daughter of the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, [was arrested in Vancouver, Canada, on a U.S. warrant. She is fighting extradition](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-china-canada-20181212-story.html) to the United States on charges that she and Huawei conspired to violate U.S. sanctions on Iran.\n\nHuawei also faces charges of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile. Meng and Huawei have denied all charges.\n\nThe company has fought back in recent months, filing a civil lawsuit in Canada and publicly denouncing Meng’s detention as politically motivated and a violation of her rights.\n\n**[The latest from Washington »](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics)**\n\n**[More stories from Don Lee »](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-bio-don-lee-staff.html?page=9&)**\n\nMore to Read","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	Reporting from Washington — President Trump issued an executive order Wednesday giving his administration sweeping powers to block Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. and other foreign communications firms from doing business in the United States — a long-anticipated move he had postponed while Washington and Beijing were in intense trade negotiations. The White House said the president was taking the action to “protect America from foreign adversaries who are actively and increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information and communications technology infrastructure and services in the United States.” Trump’s directive does not name any company from China or any other country, and senior administration officials, in a hastily arranged press call, would not talk about Huawei or any specific firm. But the order was widely understood as one that targets Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, which has been in the crosshairs of America’s security and intelligence agencies. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), for example, singled out Huawei in a statement praising Trump’s order, calling the firm “a state-directed instrument of national power used by the Chinese government and Communist Party to destroy their international competitors, undermine U.S. companies, spy on foreign countries, and steal intellectual property and trade secrets.” For months, U.S. officials have waged an aggressive campaign to restrain Huawei’s global expansion as a leading supplier of the next-generation 5G wireless networks. They have argued that using Huawei equipment poses risks of Chinese espionage or sabotage. Top Huawei executives have vehemently denied they would allow the Chinese government to use their products for surveillance. With the trade talks at an impasse since Friday, Trump signed an order that was prepared months ago . Although officials would not attribute the timing to any specific factor, its release came amid an intensifying standoff between Washington and Beijing and immediately added a new level of friction. Already, the two have engaged in escalating rounds of tit-for-tat tariffs that could damage the world’s two largest economies. Declaring the problem of foreign adversaries seeking to exploit technological risks to be a national emergency, Trump’s order formalizes what was a de facto ban on Huawei in U.S. markets in recent years as the Pentagon and Congress made moves to discourage its growth. Few Americans own Huawei cellphones and only a small number of local U.S. telecom service providers in rural areas have Huawei gear in their systems. Even so, many in the U.S. intelligence community sought an official ban from the White House, saying it would make the dangers clear and help the administration’s efforts — so far only partly successful — to persuade key allies to shun Huawei . Washington has become increasingly worried about Beijing’s cyber intrusions and hacking of U.S. companies for sensitive information and technology and trade secrets. On Tuesday, during a Senate panel hearing on 5G and national security threats, lawmakers singled out Huawei in discussing the issue. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, “Now we’ve got a developing technology called 5G that if China dominates this market, we may not be able to do normal business or function normally, and we are sitting around looking at each other.” The U.S. concerns about cyber theft were on the agenda during the trade talks with China, although U.S. negotiators reportedly dropped the issue recently. The two sides broke off negotiations on Friday after the White House accused China of backing away from previous agreements, and Trump sharply escalated tariffs on Chinese goods. Chinese President Xi Jinping responded with counter-tariffs on Monday . No new talks are scheduled, although Trump and Xi are expected to meet on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit next month in Osaka, Japan. There was no immediate reaction from China to the latest U.S. announcement. Derek Scissors, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute, said the Chinese would complain — “both for the sake of the trade talks and protecting Huawei’s good name.” “As a tactical ploy, Beijing might single out an American company as a security risk,” Scissors wrote in an email. “China has recently adopted a more sweeping national security review than ours and they could soon discover that some smaller American IT firm must be tightly restricted,” he said. “The point of this would be to frighten bigger U.S. firms and have them lobby the administration.” The executive order authorizes the Commerce Department, with the consultation of other agencies, to block U.S. businesses from transactions of information and communications technology or services from a “foreign adversary” that poses an “unacceptable risk” to U.S. national security. Officials said the Commerce Department would have 150 days to develop implementation rules, although interim procedures are expected. The Commerce Department rules would be retroactive to the date of Trump’s executive order. Under existing law, the U.S. government can block foreign firms from acquiring American technology firms, and with China in mind, Congress recently expanded this authority. Trump’s order significantly adds to the government’s toolbox. “It is striking in how broad it is,” said Doug Brake, a broadband policy expert at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank. He noted that the impact of the order would depend on how the Commerce Department implements this new power. “So much rides on the processes Commerce sets up, how they do risk analysis of what can be allowed and what cannot,” he said. The Trump administration, with bipartisan support in Congress, considers China a top strategic adversary and threat to America’s security and economic interests — and technology is a major battleground in this rivalry. Against that backdrop, the White House has stepped up its rhetoric and moves to isolate Huawei and other Chinese telecom firms. Although U.S. officials have offered no public evidence of malicious code or so-called back doors in Huawei equipment, they argue that its products can’t be trusted because Beijing could at any time order Chinese companies to do its bidding. The Pentagon already has moved to block sales of smartphones made by Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese firm, at its retail stores in military bases. And last year’s Defense Department appropriations measure threatened to cut off federal funds to universities using components made by Huawei, prompting UC Berkeley, Stanford University and many other schools to sever new research partnerships with Huawei. In December, Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, who is the daughter of the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Vancouver, Canada, on a U.S. warrant. She is fighting extradition to the United States on charges that she and Huawei conspired to violate U.S. sanctions on Iran. Huawei also faces charges of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile. Meng and Huawei have denied all charges. The company has fought back in recent months, filing a civil lawsuit in Canada and publicly denouncing Meng’s detention as politically motivated and a violation of her rights. The latest from Washington » More stories from Don Lee » More to Read
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The White House said the president was taking the action to “protect America from foreign adversaries who are actively and increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information and communications technology infrastructure and services in the United States.” Trump’s directive does not name any company from China or any other country, and senior administration officials, in a hastily arranged press call, would not talk about Huawei or any specific firm. Advertisement But the order was widely understood as one that targets Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, which has been in the crosshairs of America’s security and intelligence agencies. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), for example, singled out Huawei in a statement praising Trump’s order, calling the firm “a state-directed instrument of national power used by the Chinese government and Communist Party to destroy their international competitors, undermine U.S. companies, spy on foreign countries, and steal intellectual property and trade secrets.” For months, U.S. officials have waged an aggressive campaign to restrain Huawei’s global expansion as a leading supplier of the next-generation 5G wireless networks. They have argued that using Huawei equipment poses risks of Chinese espionage or sabotage. Advertisement [Top Huawei executives](https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-tn-huawei-5g-trade-war/) have vehemently denied they would allow the Chinese government to use their products for surveillance. With the [trade talks at an impasse](https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-us-china-trade-talks-20190509-story.html) since Friday, Trump signed [an order that was prepared months ago](https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-huawei-20190213-story.html). Although officials would not attribute the timing to any specific factor, its release came amid an intensifying standoff between Washington and Beijing and immediately added a new level of friction. Already, the two have engaged in escalating rounds of tit-for-tat tariffs that could damage the world’s two largest economies. Declaring the problem of foreign adversaries seeking to exploit technological risks to be a national emergency, Trump’s order formalizes what was a de facto ban on Huawei in U.S. markets in recent years as the Pentagon and Congress made moves to discourage its growth. Few Americans own Huawei cellphones and only a small number of local U.S. telecom service providers in rural areas have Huawei gear in their systems. Even so, many in the U.S. intelligence community sought an official ban from the White House, saying it would make the dangers clear and help the administration’s [efforts — so far only partly successful — to persuade key allies to shun Huawei](https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-huawei-trump-20190221-story.html). Washington has become increasingly worried about Beijing’s cyber intrusions and hacking of U.S. companies for sensitive information and technology and trade secrets. On Tuesday, during a Senate panel hearing on 5G and national security threats, lawmakers singled out Huawei in discussing the issue. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, “Now we’ve got a developing technology called 5G that if China dominates this market, we may not be able to do normal business or function normally, and we are sitting around looking at each other.” Advertisement The U.S. concerns about cyber theft were on the agenda during the trade talks with China, although U.S. negotiators reportedly dropped the issue recently. The two sides broke off negotiations on Friday after the White House accused China of backing away from previous agreements, and Trump sharply escalated tariffs on Chinese goods. Chinese President [Xi Jinping responded with counter-tariffs on Monday](https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-trade-war-tariffs-20190513-story.html). No new talks are scheduled, although Trump and Xi are expected to meet on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit next month in Osaka, Japan. There was no immediate reaction from China to the latest U.S. announcement. Derek Scissors, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute, said the Chinese would complain — “both for the sake of the trade talks and protecting Huawei’s good name.” “As a tactical ploy, Beijing might single out an American company as a security risk,” Scissors wrote in an email. “China has recently adopted a more sweeping national security review than ours and they could soon discover that some smaller American IT firm must be tightly restricted,” he said. “The point of this would be to frighten bigger U.S. firms and have them lobby the administration.” Advertisement The executive order authorizes the Commerce Department, with the consultation of other agencies, to block U.S. businesses from transactions of information and communications technology or services from a “foreign adversary” that poses an “unacceptable risk” to U.S. national security. Officials said the Commerce Department would have 150 days to develop implementation rules, although interim procedures are expected. The Commerce Department rules would be retroactive to the date of Trump’s executive order. Under existing law, the U.S. government can block foreign firms from acquiring American technology firms, and with China in mind, Congress recently expanded this authority. Trump’s order significantly adds to the government’s toolbox. “It is striking in how broad it is,” said Doug Brake, a broadband policy expert at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank. He noted that the impact of the order would depend on how the Commerce Department implements this new power. “So much rides on the processes Commerce sets up, how they do risk analysis of what can be allowed and what cannot,” he said. The Trump administration, with bipartisan support in Congress, considers [China a top strategic adversary](https://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-pol-us-china-20181231-story.html) and threat to America’s security and economic interests — and technology is a major battleground in this rivalry. Against that backdrop, the White House has stepped up its rhetoric and moves to isolate Huawei and other Chinese telecom firms. Advertisement Although U.S. officials have offered no public evidence of malicious code or so-called back doors in Huawei equipment, they argue that its products can’t be trusted because Beijing could at any time order Chinese companies to do its bidding. The Pentagon already has moved to block sales of smartphones made by Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese firm, at its retail stores in military bases. And last year’s Defense Department appropriations measure threatened to cut off federal funds to universities using components made by Huawei, prompting UC Berkeley, Stanford University and many other schools to [sever new research partnerships with Huawei.](https://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-pol-universities-ban-huawei-funding-donations-20190321-story.html) In December, Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, who is the daughter of the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, [was arrested in Vancouver, Canada, on a U.S. warrant. She is fighting extradition](https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-canada-20181212-story.html) to the United States on charges that she and Huawei conspired to violate U.S. sanctions on Iran. Huawei also faces charges of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile. Meng and Huawei have denied all charges. The company has fought back in recent months, filing a civil lawsuit in Canada and publicly denouncing Meng’s detention as politically motivated and a violation of her rights. [The latest from Washington »](https://www.latimes.com/politics) [More stories from Don Lee »](https://www.latimes.com/la-bio-don-lee-staff.html?page=9&) ### More to Read - [![Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, from left, US President Donald Trump, and Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. Trump signed an order aimed at thwarting state-level regulation of artificial intelligence, handing a policy win to tech industry leaders who've pressed for preemption of local rules. 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He joined The Times in 1992 and during his tenure served as the Shanghai bureau chief and in various editing and reporting roles in California. Lee previously worked at the Kansas City Star. He is a native of Seoul, Korea, and graduated from the University of Chicago. ### More From the Los Angeles Times - [![FILE - In this May 13, 2018, file photo, new graduates walk into the High Point Solutions Stadium before the start of the Rutgers University graduation ceremony in Piscataway Township, N.J. Colleges across the U.S. have begun cancelling and curtailing spring graduation events amid fears that the new coronavirus will not have subsided before the stretch of April and May when schools typically invite thousands of visitors to campus to honor graduating seniors. 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Readable Markdown	Reporting from Washington — President Trump issued an executive order Wednesday giving his administration sweeping powers to block Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. and other foreign communications firms from doing business in the United States — a long-anticipated move he had postponed while Washington and Beijing were in intense trade negotiations. The White House said the president was taking the action to “protect America from foreign adversaries who are actively and increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information and communications technology infrastructure and services in the United States.” Trump’s directive does not name any company from China or any other country, and senior administration officials, in a hastily arranged press call, would not talk about Huawei or any specific firm. But the order was widely understood as one that targets Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, which has been in the crosshairs of America’s security and intelligence agencies. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), for example, singled out Huawei in a statement praising Trump’s order, calling the firm “a state-directed instrument of national power used by the Chinese government and Communist Party to destroy their international competitors, undermine U.S. companies, spy on foreign countries, and steal intellectual property and trade secrets.” For months, U.S. officials have waged an aggressive campaign to restrain Huawei’s global expansion as a leading supplier of the next-generation 5G wireless networks. They have argued that using Huawei equipment poses risks of Chinese espionage or sabotage. [Top Huawei executives](https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-tn-huawei-5g-trade-war/) have vehemently denied they would allow the Chinese government to use their products for surveillance. With the [trade talks at an impasse](https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-us-china-trade-talks-20190509-story.html) since Friday, Trump signed [an order that was prepared months ago](https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-huawei-20190213-story.html). Although officials would not attribute the timing to any specific factor, its release came amid an intensifying standoff between Washington and Beijing and immediately added a new level of friction. Already, the two have engaged in escalating rounds of tit-for-tat tariffs that could damage the world’s two largest economies. Declaring the problem of foreign adversaries seeking to exploit technological risks to be a national emergency, Trump’s order formalizes what was a de facto ban on Huawei in U.S. markets in recent years as the Pentagon and Congress made moves to discourage its growth. Few Americans own Huawei cellphones and only a small number of local U.S. telecom service providers in rural areas have Huawei gear in their systems. Even so, many in the U.S. intelligence community sought an official ban from the White House, saying it would make the dangers clear and help the administration’s [efforts — so far only partly successful — to persuade key allies to shun Huawei](https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-huawei-trump-20190221-story.html). Washington has become increasingly worried about Beijing’s cyber intrusions and hacking of U.S. companies for sensitive information and technology and trade secrets. On Tuesday, during a Senate panel hearing on 5G and national security threats, lawmakers singled out Huawei in discussing the issue. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, “Now we’ve got a developing technology called 5G that if China dominates this market, we may not be able to do normal business or function normally, and we are sitting around looking at each other.” The U.S. concerns about cyber theft were on the agenda during the trade talks with China, although U.S. negotiators reportedly dropped the issue recently. The two sides broke off negotiations on Friday after the White House accused China of backing away from previous agreements, and Trump sharply escalated tariffs on Chinese goods. Chinese President [Xi Jinping responded with counter-tariffs on Monday](https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-trade-war-tariffs-20190513-story.html). No new talks are scheduled, although Trump and Xi are expected to meet on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit next month in Osaka, Japan. There was no immediate reaction from China to the latest U.S. announcement. Derek Scissors, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute, said the Chinese would complain — “both for the sake of the trade talks and protecting Huawei’s good name.” “As a tactical ploy, Beijing might single out an American company as a security risk,” Scissors wrote in an email. “China has recently adopted a more sweeping national security review than ours and they could soon discover that some smaller American IT firm must be tightly restricted,” he said. “The point of this would be to frighten bigger U.S. firms and have them lobby the administration.” The executive order authorizes the Commerce Department, with the consultation of other agencies, to block U.S. businesses from transactions of information and communications technology or services from a “foreign adversary” that poses an “unacceptable risk” to U.S. national security. Officials said the Commerce Department would have 150 days to develop implementation rules, although interim procedures are expected. The Commerce Department rules would be retroactive to the date of Trump’s executive order. Under existing law, the U.S. government can block foreign firms from acquiring American technology firms, and with China in mind, Congress recently expanded this authority. Trump’s order significantly adds to the government’s toolbox. “It is striking in how broad it is,” said Doug Brake, a broadband policy expert at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank. He noted that the impact of the order would depend on how the Commerce Department implements this new power. “So much rides on the processes Commerce sets up, how they do risk analysis of what can be allowed and what cannot,” he said. The Trump administration, with bipartisan support in Congress, considers [China a top strategic adversary](https://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-pol-us-china-20181231-story.html) and threat to America’s security and economic interests — and technology is a major battleground in this rivalry. Against that backdrop, the White House has stepped up its rhetoric and moves to isolate Huawei and other Chinese telecom firms. Although U.S. officials have offered no public evidence of malicious code or so-called back doors in Huawei equipment, they argue that its products can’t be trusted because Beijing could at any time order Chinese companies to do its bidding. The Pentagon already has moved to block sales of smartphones made by Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese firm, at its retail stores in military bases. And last year’s Defense Department appropriations measure threatened to cut off federal funds to universities using components made by Huawei, prompting UC Berkeley, Stanford University and many other schools to [sever new research partnerships with Huawei.](https://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-pol-universities-ban-huawei-funding-donations-20190321-story.html) In December, Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, who is the daughter of the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, [was arrested in Vancouver, Canada, on a U.S. warrant. She is fighting extradition](https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-canada-20181212-story.html) to the United States on charges that she and Huawei conspired to violate U.S. sanctions on Iran. Huawei also faces charges of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile. Meng and Huawei have denied all charges. The company has fought back in recent months, filing a civil lawsuit in Canada and publicly denouncing Meng’s detention as politically motivated and a violation of her rights. [The latest from Washington »](https://www.latimes.com/politics) [More stories from Don Lee »](https://www.latimes.com/la-bio-don-lee-staff.html?page=9&) More to Read
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