5G and Chinese equipment manufacturers: the United States would warn their allies, unsubstantiated suspicions for Huawei

It's no secret that for many years, Uncle Sam's country has not wanted Chinese OEMs (Huawei, ZTE, etc.) in its networks, especially for the deployment of 5G. According to the Wall Street Journal, officials would go further by asking its allies to do the same.

Our colleagues explain that they would have had talks with Germany, Japan, Italy and other countries where the United States has military bases to inform them of what they would consider security risks. The goal is to dissuade them from using Chinese equipment in their networks.

A Huawei spokesperson explains to Mashable that he is " surprised by the US government's behaviors detailed in the article. If the behavior of a government exceeds the limits of its jurisdiction, such activity should not be encouraged ".

Chance or not of the calendar, Shi Weiliang, boss of the Chinese giant in France, spoke on the subject during an interview with the Journal du Dimanche: « Data protection and cybersecurity are one of the founding pillars of Huawei. The exploitation of the data does not interest Huawei. Our business model is based on the transfer of know-how to the customer to control the solution directly. Huawei does not have access to the network ".

The boss adds a layer: " Huawei is a private and independent company, owned 100% by its employees, he says. We are at the service of our customers, not politics ".

Shi Weiliang recalls that the company has been working with Germany for almost 10 years without any problem and stresses that " these unfounded suspicions arise in a climate of commercial and geopolitical tensions ".