The U.S. prepares for a broader campaign to banish China’s Huawei from 5G cellular networks around the world after its latest setback in Britain
By Stu Woo Jan. 23, 2020 5:30 am ET BEIJING—The U.S. is preparing for a longer and broader campaign to banish Huawei Technologies Co. from next-generation 5G cellular networks around the world, as Washington faces resistance on the front line of its lobbying campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.
The latest setback came last week when U.K. officials stood their ground after the White House sent senior officials to Britain to present more evidence about the risks posed by Huawei. “We had already anticipated the kind of threat the new U.S. material demonstrates and have factored that into our planning,” said a spokesman for the U.K. government, which is expected to make a decision next week.
“The appetite for a U.S.-U.K. trade agreement could be diminished by the U.K. making the wrong decision on Huawei,” a senior Trump administration official said. In Britain, Washington isn’t concerned that classified intelligence would be vulnerable to Huawei interception, since those are transmitted via ultra-secure methods, the U.S. official said. The issue is that a cellular-hardware maker could glean intelligence, for example, via smartphone activity at a military base with a North Atlantic Treaty Organization presence.
British officials say they are mainly concerned with the quality of Huawei’s equipment. They have said for months that Huawei products have major security flaws, but that they can mitigate them, in part by setting a quota on Huawei equipment in the country and by inspecting the company’s products in a special lab near Oxford, which is run by Huawei and overseen by U.K. officials.
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