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The University of British Columbia has had a research relationship with Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. since 2011 and the arrest of company’s chief financial officer in Vancouver last week won’t change that, the university said.

UBC and Huawei cemented the latest version of their applied-research partnership in October 2017 when university president Santa Ono and Huawei Canadian executive Christian Chua signed a framework agreement worth up to $3 million over three years.

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And UBC, on Thursday, said it “is not aware of any restrictions regarding working with Huawei and will continue with its partnership with Huawei,” according to an emailed statement from UBC vice-president of research and innovation Gail Murphy.

Murphy also said UBC had no comment on “recent reports of legal proceedings against a Huawei employee,” who is Meng Wanzhou, the company’s chief financial officer and daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei.