Tokyo won’t exclude China from networks

Japan has told the United States that Tokyo will not, at the moment, join Washington’s plan to exclude Chinese firms from telecommunications networks, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Friday, citing several sources. Japan will take its own steps to respond in case there are worries over security issues, while Tokyo will cooperate with the US, the paper said. The US State Department published in August an update of a plan called the “Clean Network” calling for telecom companies, cloud service providers, and mobile apps of Chinese origin to be kept out of the US.