Bowing to US pressure prohibits U.K. 5G equipment by Chinese Huawei security issues

Bowing to US pressure prohibits U.K. 5G equipment by Chinese Huawei security issues

British new equipment from Huawei Telecom beginning in 2021 5G infrastructure is prohibited, the British government announced Tuesday its previous position in the opposite Chinese society – imposed in a move known in direct response to the US sanctions, targeting companies in May . Existing equipment Huawei is also used by U.K. 5G entire network by 2027. The ban will be detached from the growing global concern about the safety impact of the Chinese technology. On Sunday, President Trump consultant Peter Fox News Navarro said that the administration was “just getting started” with actions against TikTok and WeChat, a popular Chinese own messaging app. Earlier in July, India has banned 59 applications, including Chinese TikTok and WeChat after a diplomatic spat between the two countries. UK. Huawei’s decision is a victory for the administration Trump, who tried to pressure allies for years, Huawei equipment of their telecommunications infrastructure on concerns that the Chinese government could count on to remove, to make it conducting espionage society. British Patent resists had earlier requests by the US government, under pressure from telecommunications companies that Huawei equipment found was the most advanced and cost-effective. After a long delay period, the British government would eventually decided in January this year that Huawei will be banned from the core of its telecommunications network, even if the hardware would be allowed up to 35% of the network peripheral parts intensive supervision by the secret service, but then in May 2020 US sanctions imposed Huawei limit the ability of US technology to use. After that were imposed, he led the U.K. National Cyber ​​Security Center (NCSC), a review that is no longer guaranteed to find the security of the future of Huawei equipment. “After the US sanctions against Huawei and updated technical advice of our computer experts, the government has decided that it is necessary to prohibit Huawei our 5G networks,” Oliver Dowden, the secretary Digital UK, said on Tuesday the new rules announced. “This crucial step provides the industry with clarity and certainty with the arrangement above 5G U.K. do we have to do” The current ban on Huawei equipment in the network core U. K. 5G will remain in place. Officials announced the introduction of ban on 5G in British patent would slow down, but the movement for the crucial national security was stressed. They also said that far period of 2027 all Huawei 5G equipment to be removed, and new national security crimes fail to move quickly. The new rules are developed do not affect devices 2G, 3G or 4G by Huawei, the British patent permit networks. The device is not before the telecommunications infrastructure in the country is added at the center of US sanctions, and had already experienced in the British patent the NCSC analyzed and approved. The move was welcomed immediately in the United States, also by Senator Ben Sasse, a hawk Republican China. “UK. The right decision today, the Chinese Communist spy ring step outside of their network,” he said in a statement. “The special relationship is now stronger, as well as our joint efforts, the threats of the [Chinese Communist Party] and its monitoring dolls pose in the free world. Hold”
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