The Chinese company was slapped with a US trade ban last week amid fears it could use its technology to spy on US citizens
CONSPIRACY theorists are claiming the real reason for the US ban on Huawei is the astonishing 50X zoom of its mobile phones.
The company was slapped with a US trade ban last week amid fears it could use its technology to spy on US citizens.
Now, Chinese diplomat Zhao Lijian, the deputy chief-of-mission at the Chinese embassy in Islamabad, has suggested the ban could be linked to its cameras.
He wrote on Twitter: "Why is Huawei making America tremble and go insane? Huawei's new phone camera's optical zoom is just insane."
Accompanying this was a video showing him filming two boys playing chess in the street near his skyscraper.
At 1X, they appear as tiny dots in the distance.
But when zoomed in at 50X, the footage is still so clear you can distinguish the different chess pieces.
Zhao recorded the footage on the P30, which was released in March.
Another person wrote on Twitter: "Huawei P30 Pro has a 40-megapixel superspectrum camera, an ultrawide and a 50x zoom. That is really is a lot.
"These Chinese want to spy on the World from China."
And a third person joked: "The Huawei P30 Pro has a camera with great zoom and low light capabilities so that we Chinese can spy on the Americans."
Huawei is at the centre of the ongoing trade war between China and the US.
The US along with their allies has shared fears of the firm’s global 5G ambitions, seeing it as the Chinese government trying to spy on people.
The country's law requires firms to cooperate with the government on national security issues.
Beijing and Washington were set to make a breakthrough in negotiations on a trade deal when the US Justice Department chiefs charged Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou with stealing trade secrets.
The sweeping indictments accuse the company of using extreme efforts to steal trade secrets from American businesses.
US intelligence believes Huawei is backed by the Chinese military and its equipment could give the country a backdoor into the communications networks of rival states.
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