A group of Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers have asked Alphabet’s Google to reconsider its work with Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei Technologies that poses security threat, Reuters reported.
In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the lawmakers said Google decided not to renew “Project Maven,” an artificial intelligence research partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense.
“While we regret that Google did not want to continue a long and fruitful tradition of collaboration between the military and technology companies, we are even more disappointed that Google apparently is more willing to support the Chinese Communist Party than the U.S. military,” they wrote.
Republican Senators Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio, Republican Representatives Michael Conaway and Liz Cheney, and Democratic Representative Dutch Ruppersberger, signed the letter.
Members of the U.S. Congress are targeting Huawei and ZTE, two telecom equipment makers from China.
Earlier this month another senator, Democrat Mark Warner, wrote to Alphabet and other technology companies asking about any data-sharing agreements with Chinese vendors including Huawei.
