A leading professional association critical for international research collaborations and setting global industry standards in technologies such as artificial intelligence has banned Huawei reviewers from its journals, sparking outrage from Chinese researchers.
The New Jersey-headquarter IEEE, or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, can no longer use Huawei employees for the peer-review process of the association’s journals, according to a screenshot of an email sent to IEEE journal editors-in-chief and confirmed with Chinese IEEE researchers.
The decision was made to conform with President Donald Trump’s move to place Huawei on an export blacklist, the email said, adding that the body had “no choice but to comply” because of unspecified “severe legal implications”.