December 13, 2018

The Trump administration's global campaign against telecom giant Huawei is pitting Europe against itself over China.

In the midst of a ballooning U.S.-China trade conflict, Washington has spent the past few months pressing its EU allies via its ambassadors to take a stronger stance against Chinese telecom vendors such as Huawei and ZTE.

The American push, which continued Wednesday with public accusations by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is exposing fault-lines between U.S. allies in Europe as well as the so-called "Five Eyes" intelligence community — which have largely followed the U.S. lead — and others that resist the American pressure by stopping short of calling out Chinese tech.

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https://www.politico.eu/article/telecoms-donald-trump-war-on-huawei-zte-splits-europe/