Trump is trying to ‘murder’ Huawei when he can just ban it, head of US-China business group says

President Donald Trump’s restrictions on Chinese telecom giant Huawei are comparable to “murder,” the president of the U.S.-China Business Council said Tuesday.

The administration blacklisted Huawei last month amid the escalated trade war, effectively halting its ability to purchase American-made chips and forcing U.S. companies to cut ties with the Chinese giant.

“If we want to keep it out of our network, it’s easy to do. Let’s just ban them. But putting them on the entity list and prohibiting U.S. companies from dealing with them, it’s more like murder. It’s trying to put an end to them,” said Craig Allen, president of the council, at CNBC’s Capital Exchange summit. The council represents about 200 American companies that do business with China.

He added, “If a stranger knocks at your door, you don’t have to let them in, but do you have the right to take a gun and shoot them?”

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