The UK’s relationship with the US is facing a test over whether to allow the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which the US and others accuse of being a security threat, to manage the roll-out of new broadband technology.
Stephanie Hare, a British academic and technology expert, said China was making its approach “very clear.”
Huawei already provides all four of the U.K.’s cellular networks with limited 5G technology, but the company doesn’t yet have access to the core national infrastructure, where customers’ personal details are held. “The point is no Chinese company is going to turn down a request from the Chinese government to do something. It’s just not going to happen whatever the Huawei publicity machine says,” he said. “By taking on Huawei you’re putting your faith in the benevolence of the Chinese Communist Party for the next 20 years, because there are going to be many, many upgrades and so on.”
However, he added, in a reference to U.S. concerns, that he wouldn’t “prejudice our national security or our ability to cooperate with Five Eyes intelligence partners.” An employee walks past a signage for the 5G Park at the Huawei Technologies Co. headquarters in Shenzhen, China.Andrew Parker, head of the secretive British domestic security agency MI5,that he had “no reason today to think” that the U.K. would damage its intelligence relationship with the U.S. if it chooses Huawei.
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