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The University of Minnesota suspended ties with the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, the Associated Press reported. Huawei is facing federal criminal charges for allegedly stealing trade secrets, violating sanctions and lying to banks.
"Given the extraordinary level of concern raised by these indictments, which follow upon the heels of other developments of concern, we consider it prudent to suspend our interactions with Huawei," the University of Minnesota said in a Feb. 14 memo reported by the AP.
Huawei is a significant funder of research at many Western universities. The University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Oxford both recently announced that they would not pursue new research ties with Huawei while allowing existing projects funded by the company to continue.
