Dutch Coalition MPs say Huawei must be kept out of 5G network roll-out

Two of the four Dutch coalition parties have said they do not want Chinese telecoms company Huawei to be involved in rolling out 5G networks in the Netherlands, following the FD’s revelations about industrial espionage at ASML, the Financieele Dagblad said on Friday. GroenLinks, the biggest Dutch opposition said in February that Huawei should be excluded from the tender process because of security fears. ‘It is very simple,’ VVD MP Wybren van Haga told the paper. ‘If a company does not keep to the rules, you don’t play with them. China clearly does not respect the international rules of trade and has no respect for the intellectual property rights of western tech companies.’ The CDA is also opposed to Chinese involvement in the project. On Thursday, the Financieele Dagblad said Chinese spies have stolen a large number of company secrets from dutch chip machinery maker ASML. The spies were highly placed R&D workers who were able to get away with source codes, software, price strategies and secret user manuals, the paper said. It bases the claims on its own research and Californian court documents. The scandal comes at a sensitive time for the government, which is currently trying to draw up a formal strategy to deal with Chinese economic interests.

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