(Peoples Daily Online)16:51, May 31, 2019
China Computer Federation (CCF), a Beijing-based technology research group announced in a statement on May 30 that it will be halting cooperation with Communications Society (ComSoc), a US based publication division of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
The statement came a day after the ComSoc banned Huawei staff from participating in certain aspects of the peer review process for its research papers.
鈥淭he IEEE was once considered an open international academic organization, an academic community of practitioners in the information technology field, with members from all over the world, including China,鈥?the CCF wrote.
The CCF said it would suspend exchanges and cooperation with ComSoc and call on CCF members to cease contributing to ComSoc events, research reports and reviewing its papers.
The CCF had taken much consideration before publishing this statement, said Du Zide, CCF secretary general.