Britain's government on Tuesday backtracked on plans to give Chinese telecommunications company Huawei a limited role in the U.K.'s new high-speed mobile phone network in a decision with broad implications for relations between London and Beijing.
Britain imposed the ban after the U.S. threatened to sever an intelligence-sharing arrangement because of concerns Huawei equipment could allow the Chinese government to infiltrate U.K. networks.
Johnson in January sought to balance economic and security pressures by agreeing to give Huawei a limited role in Britain's so-called 5G network, excluding the company from core components of the system and restricting its involvement to 35% of the overall project. China's ambassador to Britain, Liu Xiaoming, last week decried what he described as "gross interference" in Chinese affairs.
Rana Mitter, an Oxford University history professor specializing in China, said that the security law -- combined with broader resentment about the way China handled information about the coronavirus -- created increased wariness among Britain's politicians and the public.
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