Berlin – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s claim that “the tide is turning against Huawei” seems to have been vindicated by several in regarding Huawei’s involvement in their next-generation telecom networks. Most notably, the United Kingdom changed allowing Huawei’s participation as a “high-risk vendor” after a . U.K. telecom operators are now required to by the end of 2020 and to remove such equipment from their networks . Similarly, the on implementation of the European Union’s “5G Toolbox” risk mitigation framework recommends that member-states establish plans to phase-out “high-risk suppliers.”
These developments reflect aggravated by Chinese economic practices, the COVID-19 pandemic, and events concerning Hong Kong. They coincide with enhanced U.S. efforts to check expansion of Chinese firms’ global role in 5G networks. Pompeo’s recent call for struggle against Chinese totalitarianism as “,” in which he , has framed the issue of global 5G leadership in larger terms. But on inspection, it is doubtful that current U.S. measures add up to an effective strategy for to “lead the development [of] 5G communications infrastructure worldwide.”
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