"We knew" .. White House enters the line of crisis Huawei manager

"We knew" .. White House enters the line of crisis Huawei manager

The White House announced on Thursday that it had previously informed the Chinese telecom giant Huawei of an official arrest on the same day that President Donald Trump was meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at dinner.

"I knew that beforehand," White House national security adviser John Bolton told NPR radio on Thursday.

But he did not say whether Trump was personally informed of the arrest of Ming Wenchu, financial director of the world's second smartphone group, on Saturday in Vancouver.

"Things like this always happen and we do not tell the president every time," Bolton said.

Trump met Saturday with the Chinese president on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina in a bid to resolve a trade dispute between Washington and Beijing that threatens the world economy.

After this working dinner, Washington and Beijing announced a truce in their 90-day trade war until the negotiations were completed.

But Huawei's arrest, which demanded China's immediate release, saying it did not "violate any law," could block the rapprochement that began in Buenos Aires between the two countries.

Bolton declined to disclose the details of the arrest of the Chinese official, but confirmed that Huawei was like other Chinese companies, targeted by the United States.

"For years, we have been deeply concerned by the practices of Chinese companies using stolen intellectual property, imposing technology transfer and acting as an armed arm of the Chinese government, especially in the field of information technology," he said.

Newspapers have revealed that Washington suspects that Ming Wenchu, the daughter of the founder of the Huawei Group, has been violating US sanctions against Iran.