Analysts say Britain’s decision to ban Huawei equipment in 2020 is nothing more than a pretext for forwarding direct orders from Washington.
The United States has reportedly blocked Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei from developing 5G technology in the UK, despite significant interest from British authorities, an edited excerpt from investigative journalist Richard Kerbaj’s upcoming book has revealed.
According to the text ‘The Secret History of the Five Eyes’, British officials wanted to advance tender procedures with Chinese companies by mid-2019, but they were kicked out of the meeting where the issue was discussed due to shouts from members of the delegation of American officials.
A British intelligence official present at the meeting identified Matthew Pottinger, a former deputy US national security adviser, as the man who shouted at his British colleagues and rejected London’s analysis of Huawei’s security. Pottinger’s main point is the notion that British authorities “don’t know how evil China is”.
Kerbaj describes in his book how the CIA launched an intimidation campaign to “discredit” Britain’s assessment of Huawei’s technology. US intelligence has contacted their French, German, Italian and Norwegian counterparts to express concern about London’s so-called “misjudgment”, prompting British intelligence officials to describe this campaign as a “military operation.” black “against allies.
Furthermore, in 2020, the UK banned Huawei equipment, which at the time was reportedly due to concerns from the country’s National Cybersecurity Center. However, many speculated that this decision was nothing more than a pretext for sending orders from America.
“Pawn of US imperialism”
“More than anything, this revelation is a disgrace to Britain. Britain, once an empire stretching across a world where the sun never sets, has been reduced to a pawn of US imperialism with no national sovereignty,” US political analyst Bradley Blankenship said in an article. published on RT in English.
Blankenship stressed that this was not an isolated incident. Indeed, other members of the so-called Five Eyes Alliance, an Anglophone intelligence cooperation group, took steps to ban Huawei in apparently similar situations. New Zealand and Australia banned the tech giant in late 2018, and Canada did so in May 2022.
Likewise, experts point out that there is a similar pattern of US bullying around the world. “I remember former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Central Europe in August 2020, which was preceded by a joint statement on 5G security signed between the US and the Czech Republic that May. Huawei is mentioned in it on his behalf, but Pompeo and Washington are understood to be targeting the Chinese telecommunications giant,” he said.
This scare tactic by Washington to stop China’s cooperation is useless, Blankenship said, “especially for European countries facing an impending recession and countless inflationary pressures.” In fact, removing Chinese companies from 5G tenders, as happened in the UK, means that deployment of the technology has been delayed for years.
“Unfairly banning competition in public auctions generally means a decrease in quality and a greater burden on taxpayers, all of which are negatives,” the analyst concluded.
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