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CHINESE REGIME
Huawei Faces Mounting Opposition in UK as Distrust of Beijing Grows
BY CATHY HE April 19, 2020 Updated: April 19, 2020
Voices are growing within UK’s ruling party to block Chinese telecom giant Huawei from a role in the country’s 5G network, as the government signals a tougher stance towards Beijing over its handling of the CCP virus pandemic.
The UK government in January granted Huawei a role in building non-sensitive parts of its next-generation wireless network, and capped its involvement at 35 percent. But since then, opposition from within the ruling Conservative Party has cast doubt that the measure can be approved by Parliament, Bloomberg reported.
A bill formalizing January’s decision is expected to be introduced within months.
The campaign against Huawei comes amid wider calls within the Tory Party for a reset of relations with China’s communist regime over its role in covering up the -19 outbreak, which fueled the global spread of the virus.
“I think the government’s been misadvised,” Conservative member of Parliament Owen Paterson told NTD, an affiliate of The Epoch Times. “I hope that events of recent weeks would have really woken them up to the danger, of being beholden on a company … so closely run by the Chinese communist government.”
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