The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration on 19 August issued an extension of the ban of the Chinese smartphone and technological equipment manufacturing company, Huawei, from the United States Market. The initiative will provide some issues for the U.S. companies that relied on Huawei equipment to perform their operational process.

President Trump has stated that “Huawei is a company we may not do business with at all.” He continued, ”At this moment it’s looking much more like we’re not going to do business. I don’t want to do business at all, because it is a national security threat.” However, there were also experts responding to this ban extension and one of them was cyber-security consultant Eric Vanderburg. He tweeted that “U.S. government blinks again in its trade-deal bluff-fest with Chinese mobe maker Huawei.”

Experts speculate that the banning of the Chinese smartphone and the infrastructural equipment would provide benefits and drawbacks to the digital economy. The disadvantage is obviously due to the inability to use the equipment to build a 5G wireless network, capable of carrying faster internet than the current 4G network. It will introduce innovations such as autonomous vehicles and others. On the other hand, most experts are in favor of the ban as they believe that the American cyber-security needs to be protected at all cost.

Reported by the Washington post, the Commerce Department ban was the “harshest” of many of the initiatives in the Trump administration. President Trump suggested recently, after a negotiation with President Xi Jinping last June, that he was open for limiting the Commerce ban but pulled out from the deal after there was no progress in a broader trade. The Chinese company denies spying on U.S. citizens and additionally made a statement saying that the ban caused more impact on Chinese companies rather than the U.S. cyber-security. Eric Vanderburg expanded on the tweet he made about the trade deal tariff, ”It’s clear that this decision, made at this particular time, is politically motivated and has nothing to do with national security,” the company said in an email to reporters. ”These actions violate the basic principles of free market competition. They are in no one’s interests, including U.S. companies.”