In the UK, the signs that the government is on the verge of the controversial Chinese network supplier Huawei from the further Development of the 5G mobile and wireless communications network, to exclude multiply. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce a major political turn, wrote several conservative Sunday newspaper with good Connections in the government.

Philip Plickert

economic correspondent based in London.

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The National Cyber Security Centre of the intelligence service GCHQ has come in a report, to the conclusion that the new U.S. sanctions against Huawei because of the Connections of the group to the ruling Communist party and the military changed the situation decisively. Huawei receives no American technology, and could not, therefore, be in the UK during the Expansion action, the Chinese group must now use “unreliable” technology.

No “Sinophober”

in January Johnson, Huawei’s role and the market had limited proportion, but in principle given the green light despite the toughest pressure from Washington. For some years, especially under Prime Minister David Cameron, had London and Beijing, will warm of a “Golden decade” of relations and economic cooperation swollen. In June, the city Council of Cambridge, Huawei has given the approval for the construction of a research centre for a billion pounds in the Region.

Since the new Hong Kong crisis, the British have deteriorated, however,-Chinese relations rapidly. Johnson has offered up to 3 million Hongkongern a claim to a British Overseas passport and a visa-free entry into the Kingdom, after China has passed a draconian security law in the former British crown colony. Beijing language outraged by interference in internal Chinese Affairs.

Huawei has tried its role in the Expansion of the mobile network as a particularly positive image. Without his technology, it would take very much longer and more expensive, the 5G network in the whole country spread.