Chinese tech giant Huawei has unleashed its new smartwatch, named as 'Watch D' which is a custom-made high hardness aviation aluminum with improved durability and scratch resistance.
Former R&AW chief Vikram Sood says there are several powerful reasons - strategic, technological, geopolitical and legal - to suggest it could be risky to permit Chinese telecom major Huawei, with its state-structured backing, to launch operations in India's critical infrastructure.
China is accused of mass detentions, religious persecution and forced sterilisation of Uyghurs and others in China's resource-rich northwestern province of Xinjiang. Authorities there are thought to have detained about a million people in re-education camps in recent years for "vocational training" to counter radicalism and separatism in Xinjiang.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday announced that the US will impose visa restrictions on certain employees of Chinese tech companies like Huawei that provide "material support" to regimes engaging in human rights violations and abuses globally.
In a major setback to China, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is all set to begin phasing out the use of Chinese tech giant Huawei's technology in Britain's 5G network as soon as this year over security concerns.
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will pay $286 million (₹2,050 crore) in bonuses to its staff worldwide and double the salaries for almost all its 1.9 lakh employees for October. The payments are a reward for its workers, who helped the telecom giant through the US ban.
Chinese tech giant Huawei will remain banned from developing its 5G wireless networks in the US.
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