The United States warned its allies that Chinese tech giant Huawei has ‘back door’ access built into its networks, prompting MPs to call for Boris Johnson to reverse his decision to allow the company to help build the UK’s 5G infrastructure.
What will happen next in the U.K. on 5G is unclear. All we know for sure is that the sovereignty of the U.K. includes the sovereign right to make a mistake.
Nigel Farage said there is “growing” concern in Washington over Boris Johnson’s decision to allow Chinese telecom giant Huawei the rights to work on Britain’s 5G infrastructure.
Several conservative groups including FreedomWorks, R Street, and the Lincoln Network have sent a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, urging a faster rollout of 5G technologies in the United States to beat China. According to the letter, if America doesn’t step up the race to 5G, it will fail to compete with China, “a potentially devastating but avoidable outcome.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei access to the United Kingdom’s 5G infrastructure is “madness” says the founder of Hong Kong Watch.
The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reassured Prime Minister Boris Johnson that his decision to involve Chinese firm Huawei in developing Britain’s 5G network will not harm U.S.-UK relations.
The U.K.’s 5G partnership with Huawei will increase China’s capacity to “influence populations and conduct espionage,” said Robert Spalding.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has expressed his shock that the Conservative government has decided to allow Chinese-owned Huawei involvement in British 5G networks, despite warnings from intelligence allies Australia and the United States.
The Secretary of State of the United States will fly to the United Kingdom to discuss Boris Johnson’s controversial decision to allow Huawei to help build the nation’s 5G infrastructure. The move by the UK is seen as a possible stumbling block in future trade negotiations with the U.S. as well as jeopardising intelligence sharing between the two powers.
The UK shrugged off concerns of handing China a back-door key, and spiking post-Brexit trade with key Anglosphere allies Tuesday.
Even before the coronavirus raised its terrifying head, buying 5G technology from China’s Huawei looked like a bad idea for Britain.
The U.S. has responded to revelations the UK may green-light the involvement of Huawei in the nation’s future 5G data networks with concern.
Chinese tech giant Huawei is on course to get a role in developing the United Kingdom’s next-generation communications networks.
The Chinese Ambassador to Denmark threatened high-level officials in the Faroe Islands, warning the Communist country would cancel a free trade agreement if the islands refused to sign a contract with the controversial Chinese telecom company Huawei.
According to a recent report, less than 10 percent of American consumers are purchasing $1,000 flagship smartphones from companies like Apple and Samsung.
Apple is reportedly forecasting a significant jump in iPhone sales as consumer demand for 5G devices is expected to boost the popularity of the iPhone 12, set to debut next year.
Nov. 1 (UPI) — China switched on its 5G network Friday, which is the largest next-generation commercial network in the world to date.
The global economy is the battlefield in China’s bid for global dominance. We must engage them with every resource at our disposal, including the Export-Import Bank which Congress must vote to reauthorize.
China will dominate the next generation of telecommunications infrastructure in the absence of U.S. industrial policy to help finance construction of a nationwide 5G network, said retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.
Vietnam, which presently has tense relations with China, is building a 5G network without using products from China’s telecom giant Huawei.
Chinese billionaire Ren Zhengfei, founder of telecommunications titan Huawei, wrote an internal memo this week laying out plans to overhaul the company over the next three to five years and create an “invincible iron army” to fight against regulatory pressure and competition from the United States.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday the Atlantic alliance must counter China’s growing influence in the Pacific, working closely with allies such as Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea.
T-Mobile and Sprint pledged to build a 5G network covering 97% of the U.S. population in three years.
“We should be cutting Huawei off and trying to kill it,” advised Gordon Chang, columnist at the Daily Beast and author of The Coming Collapse of China, in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
John Bolton said the Trump administration is taking a “hard line” on tech firms that would compromise U.S. safety for Chinese market share.
“If you own an Android phone, everything you’re talking on right now is going back to China,” said Democrat presidential candidate Joe Sestak.
If 5G wireless is so clearly a concern for U.S. intelligence, a portion of the intelligence budget could be invested in creating an American competitor to China’s dominant Huawei corporation.
China expert and Asia Times columnist David P. Goldman joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Monday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight to talk about the apparent victory of the protest movement in Hong Kong.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on Friday.
Former Vice President Joe Biden warned Tuesday the United States was in danger of losing to China in the race to fully embrace 5G wireless technology.
Last week, President Trump signed an executive order effectively barring Chinese telecom giant Huawei from doing business in the United States.
“If we continue this battle going on the last three years for another four … China is going to be in 5G. AI is going to be owned by them,” Biden said.
Rubio released a report Wednesday calling on American businesses and policymakers to invest more in domestic capital in the United States.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warns countries around the world to avoid joining the “Belt and Road” initiative because “China is playing a zero-sum game internationally and willing to win at all costs.”
President Donald Trump’s number priority in immigration policy is protecting Americans’ wages and salaries, Jared Kushner told an audience at the #Time100 summit today.
The settlement between Apple and Qualcomm could speed the deployment of 5G phones to U.S. consumers.
“The race to 5G is a race that American must win,” Trump said. “It’s a race that we will win.”
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai announced Friday that the agency will unveil the largest spectrum auction in American history to ensure American leadership in 5G and create a Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to expand Internet access to rural America.
The AT&T chief had an impromtu meeting with President Donald Trump last week. 5G network technology was discussed.
Six retired U.S. defense officials issued a statement on Wednesday warning that European and Asian partners could put American military operations at risk if they use Chinese technology in their 5G networks.