Huawei ripped out of UK’s network by 2027 in huge U-turn
ONE of Britain’s new aircraft carriers could be deployed to the Far East as tensions between America and China are ramped up.
The HMS Queen Elizabeth’s maiden voyage was planned for disputed waters in the Pacific.
But military chiefs are said to have drawn up plans to conduct exercises with allies including the United States and Japan.
American Secretary of State
BORIS Johnson has risked further souring relations with China by banning Huawei from the UK’s 5G telecommunications network.
In a major u-turn, the PM and his National Security Council decided to rip out all the Chinese giant’s technology from our digital infrastructure by 2027 because of national security concerns.
British telecoms firms including BT will also be prohibited from buying any Huawei kit from next year under the move.
Consumers who use Huawei mobile phones or computers will not be affected by the move.
But ministers admitted the decision will delay the rollout of the 5G network – needed for faster communications links and a new generation of “smart” gadgets – across the UK by up to three years and increase costs by up to £2billion.
Sanctions
Yesterday’s announcement overturned a Government decision earlier this year to give the go-ahead to Huawei to play a limited role in developing the next generation of digital communications technology in the UK despite the firm being described as a “high-risk vendor”.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said President Donald Trump’s move to impose sweeping sanctions on Huawei in the US had forced the change of policy.
He told MPs these could affect Huawei’s ability to supply new equipment and create uncertainty over security.
He said: “The best way to secure our networks is for operators to stop using new affected Huawei equipment to build the UK’s future 5G networks. We have not taken this decision lightly.”
Tory MPs who had threatened a Commons rebellion over the
Mike Pompeo has said it will take a tougher stance on Beijing’s “bullying” in the South China Sea.
China has accused the US of “stirring up tension” over its historical claims to disputed islands. The HMS Queen Elizabeth is expected to set sail early next year. A source said: “One carrier will support Nato in the North previous green light to Huawei welcomed yesterday’s u-turn.
Tory backbench Huawei Interest Group’s Bob Seely said: “We shouldn’t have high-risk vendors in our critical national infrastructure.”
Ex-leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said Huawei should be removed from the UK’s telecoms network five years earlier than 2027.
Ed Brewster, a spokesman for Huawei whose UK head office is in Reading, Berks, said: “This threatens to move Britain into the digital slow lane, push up bills and deepen the digital divide.”
Atlantic. Where else are you going to put the other? On the trade routes and to counter the emerging threat of China. It would be an allied task group, a British carrier, but a coalition of the willing. That’s how it’s looked at.”
The carrier will have a crew of around 1,600 personnel when fighter jets and helicopters are on board. Two squadrons of F-35B Lightning II stealth combat jetsare
YESTERDAY, the Government reversed their original decision to allow the Chinese company Huawei to play a part in our new 5G system.
I welcome this decision as the right one.
This is because there has been a growing body of information that the company is not independent of the Chinese State but, in reality, an integral part of the security apparatus of that state.
I should remind readers that the present Chinese Communist Government is a government that brooks no dissent from its people, it doesn’t acknowledge human rights, democracy or the independent rule of law and Chinese companies have to cooperate with the security services.
This decision though does have some holes in it which will need to be resolved if we are to be free of Huawei.
First is that although Huawei will not be allowed in 5G they will continue to be in 4G.
This means that they will continue to put software into our telecoms systems for at least the next decade, posing a continuing threat.
Also companies that have due to be embarked during its Far East deployment. The carrier will be accompanied by two Type 45 destroyers, two Type 23 frigates, two tankers and helicopters. China is in dispute over islands where it has military outposts.
The MoD insisted: “No decision has been made on HMS Queen Elizabeth’s deployment.” stockpiled Huawei 5G equipment will be able to continue to install and use it in their 5G system until as late as 2027, which means Huawei won’t in reality have left the UK’s 5G for another seven years.
The risk they pose will continue, why not end their involvement earlier, in 2025 at the latest.
Finally, there are real issues over Huawei’s possible involvement in the suppression of the Uighurs including their forced sterilisation which would make them unfit to be a provider of any service at all.
The bigger problem is the aggressive behaviour of China and its crackdown on dissidents in China and elsewhere.
We have become far too dependent on this powerful communist state and the free world needs to come together to resolve this issue.