No convincing evidence for Tokyo to bar country's telecoms, ministry says

Japan decided to exclude Huawei and ZTE from official contracts citing "security issues", but China insists there is no convincing evidence of such issues.

The Japanese government and its Self-Defense Forces received procurement guidelines on Monday that effectively ban them from buying telecommunication equipment, servers and personal computers from the Chinese telecom giants as of April.

"In order to uphold cybersecurity, we are aware that it is extremely important to make sure we do not procure equipment with functions of malicious intent," Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at a news conference on the issue, without naming companies.