US Renews Pressure on Europe to Ditch Huawei in New Networks

The Epoch Times 09.29.2020 1 min read
BY: Robin Emmott
US Renews Pressure on Europe to Ditch Huawei in New Networks
US Renews Pressure on Europe to Ditch Huawei in New Networks
A man wearing a face mask following the COVID-19 outbreak walks past a booth of Huawei at the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, China, on Sept. 4, 2020. (Tingshu Wang/Reuters)

BRUSSELS—Telecoms company Huawei Technologies is part of China’s surveillance state, complicit in human rights abuses, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday, as Washington renewed pressure on Europe to ban the company from fifth-generation (5G) networks.

Keith Krach, the undersecretary of state for economic affairs, stepped up warnings as Germany and Italy consider their next-generation mobile networks, in his first tour of European capitals since the COVID-19 pandemic hindered travel in March.

Krach said that Finland’s Nokia and Sweden’s Ericsson were the only companies that European governments should choose.

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