'We should recognise that we've been duped' Chair of the Defence Select Committee Tobias_Ellwood says 'it's about time now that we stop rolling over' to China, adding 'it's time that we were stronger' Read more here:
He added:"The problem is we have had a close relationship with Huawei dating back, I think, to the year 2000, so getting Huawei out of the systems can't be done rapidly - it will have to be done cumulatively over time."There's a technical aspect to this because since the American embargo on Huawei was imposed it's not clear that they're going to be able anyway to provide the 5G equipment on which the system will depend.
He said:"Huawei is not a sort of ordinary international telecommunications company, it's an intimate part of the Chinese state.
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