Joe Tsai says US being ‘extremely unfair’ to Huawei

Joseph TsaiChinese web tycoon and future Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai waded into national security controversy Friday, slamming the US treatment of Chinese smartphone maker Huawei.

Tsai, a senior executive at Alibaba and right-hand man to its billionaire chief executive Jack Ma, said that the US was being “extremely unfair” to Huawei, adding that measures to restrict the company’s access to American markets was “very politically motivated.”

“I think what the American government [is] trying to do with Huawei is a bit unfair, there’s definitely a political agenda behind it,” Tsai said at a Reuters BreakingViews event in Hong Kong, accusing the American government of trying to hinder China’s…