The row flared up over Germany's decision not to ban Chinese tech giant Huawei from participation in the German 5G mobile phone network.
"There is no moral equivalency between China and the United States and anyone suggesting it ignores history," US Ambassador Richard Grenell said.
During a TV debate on Huawei on Sunday, Mr Altmaier recalled the 2013 scandal over US surveillance of Nato allies via the National Security Agency. It emerged that the NSA had even spied on Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mr Altmaier said that "Germany still did not impose any boycott" on the US despite the NSA scandal.
- Huawei affair: German 'insult' on spying angers US
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
German 'insult' on spying angers US
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