Among the United States’ closest allies, only Australia has banned Huawei from building its new networks; Japan has effectively done the same. Britain and Germany, two of the most powerful members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, are hedging. Their politicians fear the job losses that would result as well as Chinese retaliation, and they believe there are elements of the network that Huawei could build without endangering national security. Huawei would be relegated to the more peripheral parts of the networks, like the cellular tower systems that communicate with phones and other devices. It can’t be a system that is based on the principles of an authoritarian, Communist regime.”

Source: New York Times May 27, 2019 21:22 UTC