Security News > 2021 > January > Bye bye, said Trump admin to Huawei: You give a cheque-ie to our techies, but there's no licence to ply

With less than three days until the inauguration of Joe Biden, the Trump Administration has reportedly revoked several licences that would allow Huawei to buy US-made tech, and plans to deny over 150 pending requests.

In May 2019, the Trump Administration placed Huawei on an entity list, citing national security grounds.

Huawei cannot, for example, license Google Mobile Services, which is the all-important secret sauce in Android, and contains proprietary apps like the Google Play Store and Google Maps.

At the same time, Huawei has been frozen out of new 5G deployments in several key markets, most notably the UK, where Huawei's supply chain woes were cited as a justification behind a wholesale ban.

As previous Huawei leadership have noted, the dislike of China cuts across partisan lines in Washington.

The Register has asked Huawei and Kioxia for comment.

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