British parliament's defence committee says Huawei colludes with Chinese Communist Party
Huawei 5G
TheBritish parliament's defence committee on Wednesday highlighted''clear evidence of collusion'' between telecoms giantHuawei and theChinese Communist Party.
Theparliament committee has urged Prime Minister Boris Johnsonto prepone the deadline set to remove allHuaweiequipment from the United Kingdom.
InJuly, Johnson had orderedHuaweiequipment to be purged from the nascent 5G network by the end of 2027. USPresident Donald Trump claimed credit for the British decision.
"The West must urgently unite to advance a counterweight to China’s tech dominance," Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the defence committee, said. "We must not surrender our national security for the sake of short-term technological development."
The Committee did not go into detail about the exact nature of the ties but said it had seen clear evidence ofHuaweicollusion with "the Chinese Communist Party apparatus".
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Huaweisaid the report ''is built on opinion rather than fact. We’re sure people will see through these groundless accusations of collusion and remember instead whatHuaweihas delivered for Britain over the past 20 years."
Trump identifies China as the United States' main geopolitical rival, and has accused the Communist Party-ruled state of taking advantage over trade and not telling the truth over the novel coronavirus outbreak, which he calls the "China plague".
Washington and its allies sayHuaweitechnology could be used to spy for China.Huaweihas repeatedly denied this, and says the United States is simply jealous of its success.
British ministers say the rise to global dominance ofHuawei, founded in 1987 by a former People's Liberation Army engineer, has caught the West off-guard.
The defence committee said it supported Johnson's decision to eventually purgeHuaweifrom 5G but noted that "developments could necessitate this date being moved forward, potentially to 2025 which could be considered economically feasible."