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For any copyright, please send me a message. It has angered our intelligence partners. It may prove disruptive to international trade at a time when the success of UK trade policy is crucial. The most obvious concerns are those of national security. Huawei is not a private company. It is, in effect, a state-owned corporation intimately involved with Chinese intelligence services. Allowing Huawei a role in building our 5G network is effectively allowing China to build it. Even Communist Vietnam has shunned Huawei on security grounds. Our Five Eyes partners – the US, Australia and New Zealand – have already blocked it and are furious with the UK’s decision. There is a real danger that our closest allies could now withhold crucial intelligence from us. A cross-party group of US Senators this week took the unusual step of writing to all MPs, expressing their “significant concern” over the UK’s stance. That concern is justified. The Government has limited the extent to which Huawei products may be deployed, restricting them to the “edge” rather than the “core” infrastructure. This strategy relies on an assumption that the core cannot be compromised from the edge. But this assumption is completely false. An enemy could, for example, disable our 5G network by shutting down the aerials or routers at the edge, which could be straightforwardly achieved by remotely activating an extremely hard-to-detect “kill switch” embedded in edge components. The strategy to restrict Huawei to a 35 percent share of the edge thus offers very few security benefits over allowing them 100 percent access to the entire infrastructure. We could no more imagine that the prison was secure if 35 percent of the wall was built by prisoners. The Government’s decision may also damage our trading relationships. Expanding UK trade is, rightly, one of the Government’s top priorities. Yet the Huawei decision puts one of that strategy’s key pillars – a UK-US trade deal – in jeopardy. The US Government has been vocally opposed to Huawei and, asked if the UK’s decision could be a “deal-breaker” in our negotiations, Vice President Pence simply said: “We’ll see.” Given this widespread and legitimate opposition, it is hard to see why the Government is in such a rush to press on with 5G. The decision becomes even harder to justify when we consider the relatively limited benefits of 5G over 4G. 5G allows faster transmission rates and increased network capacity. But the range of specific applications for which 5G would make a material difference now is relatively unimpressive. In any case, given that more and more of our allies are ruling out Huawei, it is likely that the global roll-out of 5G will not be immediate. Correspondingly, it is not clear that we would b
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