The United States is hesitant to share secrets with Spain over the Huawei deal.

China is interfering in relations between Spain and the United States. Lawmakers on the intelligence committees in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have requested that the top intelligence official, Tulsi Gabbard, review the exchange of classified information with Spain to ensure that secrets don't end up being leaked to the Chinese Communist Party, the absolute power in the country.

They fear that Spain will expose sensitive data on its allies to China. The source of this suspicion lies in the fact that the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, awarded Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications company, the contract to manage the storage of judicial wiretaps. The deal, for €12.5 million, involves the digital safekeeping of the results of court-ordered wiretaps.

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US lawmakers see a crisis there, as they are suspicious of Chinese tactics.

The Spanish government confirmed this Friday that it uses Huawei for this eavesdropping and ruled out any danger. "There is no security risk," said sources from the ministry. "The contract meets the levels required by the National Security Framework established by independent certification authorities," they emphasized.

This came after intelligence officials on Capitol Hill in Washington, Senator Tom Cotton and Representative Rick Crawford, urged a review of the relationship with Madrid. “That’s almost unimaginable; Spain is playing with fire,” Crawford said.

Junts posed several questions to the Congressional panel about this contract.