Pelosi warns US allies against using Huawei

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS: No NATO ally should succumb to the temptation of letting Chinese tech giant Huawei into their next-generation cellular networks, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday at Allied headquarters, turning US opposition to Huawei into a bipartisan effort.

Pelosi said the invasion of privacy that would result from having Huawei integrated into Europe’s 5G communication networks would be “like having the state police, the Chinese state police, right in your pocket.”

She insisted such technology was far too sensitive to turn to over to Chinese interests, even though they can deliver such technology cheaper, thanks to the fact that the company relied on Western know-how to build its systems.

Her remarks came a day after the US envoy to Germany said President Donald Trump had threatened to cut off intelligencesharing with countries that dealt with Chinese tech firm Huawei.

Ambassador Richard Grenell said Trump “instructed me to make clear that any nation who chooses to use an untrustworthy 5G vendor will jeopardise our ability to share intelligence and information at the highest level.”

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US SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO HAS SAID HUAWEI WAS A “TROJAN HORSE FOR CHINESE INTELLIGENCE.”