One of Trump's top tech advisors hit out at China and Huawei during a speech at Europe's biggest tech conference — and Huawei was at the event, too

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• Michael Kratsios, chief technology officer of the United States and one of President Donald Trump's top tech advisers, gave a speech at Web Summit, one of Europe's largest tech conferences.
• His talk was full of praise for America, as well as for European values. He called for cooperation between the US and Europe on developing new tech like AI.
• His speech then turned to China, which he called a repressive regime that spies on its citizens.
• And he railed against Chinese telecom giant Huawei, too — which, incidentally, had a sizable presence at the event.
• Some in the crowd did not seem pleased, with someone in the back of the room yelling out Edward Snowden's name and receiving a burst of applause.
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LISBON, Portugal — Michael Kratsios, the chief technology officer of the United States and one of President Donald Trump's top tech advisors, spoke at one of Europe's largest tech conferences to a crowd that was baffled, and at times annoyed, at the content of the talk.

Kratsios, who is not a technologist but did work as a venture capitalist under Trump supporter Peter Thiel, gave a politically-charged talk at the Web Summit in Lisbon on Thursday.

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