Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese telecommunications giant blacklisted by the US, is secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities including Harvard through an independent Washington-based foundation.

Despite being on the U.S. trade blacklist since 2019, Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei has secretly been the sole funder of a research competition involving U.S. universities that is administered by a Washington,

In brief: The US makes no secret of its distrust of Huawei, having banned some of the Chinese firm's products and placed it on an export blacklist. As such, revelations that the company is secretly funding a massive US college research competition won't have pleased officials.

The US imposed restrictions on Huawei over concerns that it is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, and its technology could be Xi Jinping as a spying tool.