US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Wednesday that Chinese cloud computing companies like Huawei Cloud and Alibaba Cloud pose a threat to US security and vowed to review a request to add them to an export control list, Report informs, citing Reuters.
Raimondo said about a quarter of the Chinese companies on the export control list were added under her tenure "and we have to continue," she added, saying the department needs additional resources to review export control issues. "The threats are real."
"I've put over 200 Chinese companies on the entity list in my tenure and we are actively, constantly investigating additional threats and if and as we think companies need to go onto the list, I will not hesitate," she said at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing.