Google has warned that banning Huawei products from the US 's digital infrastructure risks compromising national security . Despite Huawei technology being placed on a trade blacklist on precisely those grounds , Google warned the ban could have the opposite effect by prompting consumers to develop more home - grown technologies in an effort to become more self - reliant . While the sanctions are expected to hurt Huawei in the short term, industry experts say it could force the company - and other Chinese firms - to become self-reliant by developing more home-grown technologies, hurting the dominance of American companies such as Google in the longer term. As an example , the company claimed Huawei could develop an adapted , more vulnerable version of Android software after Google was forced to install Android system updates on Huawei smartphones .
Google has warned that banning Huawei products from the US 's digital infrastructure risks compromising national security . Despite Huawei technology being placed on a trade blacklist on precisely those grounds , Google warned the ban could have the opposite effect by prompting consumers to develop more home - grown technologies in an effort to become more self - reliant . As an example , the company claimed Huawei could develop an adapted , more vulnerable version of Android software after Google was forced to install Android system updates on Huawei smartphones .