Five Chinese state-linked firms have been blocked from playing any role in a UK Government-led scheme to help rebuild Ukraine because of tensions between the US and China 🔴 BenGartside reports
Chinese state-linked firms barred from supplying parts to UK’s Ukraine rebuilding scheme over tensions with USUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at a military facility in Lulworth, Dorset in February Five Chinese state-linked firms have been blocked from playing any role in a UK Government-led scheme to help rebuild Ukraine because ofThe clause is in contracts advertised to companies by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for the supply of...
The contracts say: “Any and all items that are made by Huawei Technology Company, ZTE Corporation, Hytera Communications Corporation, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company, Dahua Technology Company will not be accepted. If tenders include items from these entities, please note that they will be deemed not technically responsive and excluded from competition.”
The scheme is being led by the Foreign Office, with funding coming from other Governments including the US, Switzerland and Sweden among others.that the naming of firms on the contract was “highly unusual” and unlike any Government-affiliated contract he had seen before.that the stipulations proved a more aggressive approach was needed from the UK Government to Chinese state-linked firms.
“If Ministers are willing at the behest of the US Government to exclude Hikvision, Dahua, and others from government procurement contracts, than it is well past time they did the same for local authorities, police forces, NHS trusts, and schools.”
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