The US government is apparently not relenting in its effort to ensure Chinese companies Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp do not have any dealing with the country’s IT infrastructure network. US government agencies have previously been barred from using telecoms equipment from either of the two Chinese companies. The latest is that US education institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that is is severing ties with both Huawei and ZTE as U.S. authorities investigate the Chinese firms for alleged sanctions violations.
Although this may not hit both companies as a surprise, the move makes MIT the latest top U.S. education institution to stop using telecom equipment made by Huawei and other Chinese companies in order to avoid losing federal funding. Earlier this year, Britain’s Oxford University stopped accepting funding from Huawei.
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In a letter posted on the institute’s website of Wednesday, the vice president for research, Maria Zuber stated; “MIT is not accepting new engagements or renewing existing ones with Huawei and ZTE or their respective subsidiaries due to federal investigations regarding violations of sanction restrictions.” The VP also stated that collaborations with China, Russia and Saudi Arabia would face additional administrative review procedures, as circumstances dictate.
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