U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan warned Brazil about using equipment from Chinese telecoms giant Huawei in its 5G phone network during a visit last week, the White House said on Monday.
Officials also pressed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on his repeated claims that electronic voting could throw next year's elections into doubt, according to the National Security Council's senior director for the Western Hemisphere Juan Gonzalez.
But he denied reports in local media that the visiting delegation had offered Brazil membership of NATO if it took a harder line on Huawei.
'At no point there was a quid pro quo,' he told reporters on a conference call. 'No exchange of a favourable position on Huawei for us and for becoming a needed global partner.
'They're separate issues.'
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan raised concerns about Huawei equipment in Brazil's 5G telecoms network during his visit to the country last week. But a White House official denied reports saying the U.S. offered to back NATO membership in exchange for Brazil excluding the Chinese Telecoms giant
In a call with reporters, the National Security Council's senior director for the Western Hemisphere Juan Gonzalez said officials were confident that Brazil would hold free and fair elections next year despite President Jair Bolsonaro (picture) raising concerns about fraud
The U.S. warned Brazil that Huawei would leave international customers 'high and dry' by prioritizing domestic customers as it faced semiconductor shortages
And he pushed back against reports that Bolsonaro had claimed that former President Trump was the rightful winner of the U.S. presidential election
'Without getting into the contents of what was a government to govt conversation... I will say there was some reporting that was inaccurate about Donald Trump coming up in the conversation,' said Gonzalez
Instead, he said Sullivan warned Bolsonaro's government the Chinese giant was not to be trusted.
'We underscored as well that - I think an important point that has not been really covered
