US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Huawei was the ‘poster child’ for China’s ‘nefarious strategy’
Top US officials fired a fresh broadside at Huawei on Saturday, warning the Chinese tech giant posed a threat to NATO if allies allowed it to build new 5G communications networks.
Washington has been pressing European allies hard to ban Huawei, one of the world’s largest tech firms, from next-generation mobile data networks, saying it is a security risk.
A day after Huawei was hit with new criminal charges in the US, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the Munich Security Conference the company was a “Trojan horse for Chinese intelligence”.
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Huawei was the “poster child” for China’s “nefarious strategy” to infiltrate and dominate crucial Western infrastructure.
“If we don’t understand the threat and we don’t do something about it, at the end of the day it could compromise what is the most successful military alliance in history — NATO,” Esper said in Munich.
This year’s conference, an annual gathering of world leaders, diplomats and military top brass, has been dominated by anxiety about the West’s diminishing influence in the face of rising China and a resurgent Russia.
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