{"id":48017,"date":"2019-12-05T07:28:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T06:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=48017"},"modified":"2019-12-05T07:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T06:28:35","slug":"boris-johnson-signals-he-could-favor-excluding-huawei-from-the-uks-5g-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2019\/12\/boris-johnson-signals-he-could-favor-excluding-huawei-from-the-uks-5g-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson signals he could favor excluding Huawei from the UK’s 5G networks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signaled that he shares US security concerns over involving the Chinese firm telecom Huawei in Britain\u2019s 5G network, according to The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His statement suggests he could move to exclude the company from a role in building the network, in the clearest indication yet of his stance on the issue, following many months of deliberation by UK authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want this country to be hostile to investment from overseas. On the other hand, we cannot prejudice our vital national security interests nor can we prejudice our ability to cooperate with other Five Eyes security partners [including the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia]. That will be the key criterion that informs our decision about Huawei,\u201d he said at a meeting of NATO leaders in Watford. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While he didn\u2019t cite the influence of Donald Trump, even when asked directly, the US president has been pressuring allies to limit their involvement with Huawei. The Chinese company has denied Washington\u2019s allegations that it could help spy for the Chinese government, and argued that the US has failed to produce any evidence for the claims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Prime Minister Theresa May had ordered a review<\/a> of security concerns, and was reportedly leaning toward allowing Huawei\u2019s involvement. Authorities have suggested Huawei equipment may be permitted in \u201cnon-core\u201d parts of the network, and it\u2019s been included in early 5G networks from all four providers in Britain. A final decision has now been postponed until after the upcoming general election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this week, a White House spokesperson said Trump and Johnson discussed \u201cthe importance of both nations working together to ensure the security of our telecommunication networks and guard against untrusted providers\u201d in a Downing Street meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the NATO meeting, Trump said a number of other countries, such as Italy, had agreed not to work with Huawei in their 5G networks. Italy\u2019s prime mister, Giuseppe Conte, later claimed<\/a> that the issue hadn\u2019t been addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement, a Huawei spokesperson said:\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re confident the UK government will continue to take an objective, evidence-based approach to cyber security. Our customers trust us because we supply the kind of secure, resilient systems called for by the NATO Declaration and will continue working with them to build innovative new networks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo by EU2017EE Estonian Presidency [CC BY 2.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signaled that he shares US security concerns over involving the Chinese firm telecom Huawei in Britain\u2019s 5G network, according to The Guardian.  His statement suggests he could move to exclude the company from a role in building the network, in the clearest indication yet of his stance on the issue,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":48018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[697,912,7569,337],"class_list":["post-48017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-finance","tag-5g","tag-huawei","tag-telecommunications","tag-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}