Huawei Skillfully Found Entry Into UK 5G Network, Says AEI Fellow

Britain’s National Security Council allowing Huawei to provide some non-core technology for the U.K.'s 5G network is a security risk, blogged American Enterprise Institute visiting fellow Shane Tews Wednesday. She noted the foreign, defense, home and international development secretaries voted no. “Huawei is using its ability to provide cheaper (subsidized) telecommunications equipment to integrate itself into the UK and European countries,” Tews said. Tews said China took advantage of British insecurity after other nations pulled investments because of Brexit. “They hold parties for political leaders and send large donations to charities such as Prince Charles’ ‘Prince’s Trust,’” she said: Prime Minister Theresa May “sent UK Finance Minister Philip Hammond to China this past week to discuss British-China economic and financial cooperation and to search for more contracts for British companies to be part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.” The company didn’t comment.