Pompeo Says World Should Have ‘Eyes Wide Open’ About Chinese Tech Risks

Pompeo Says World Should Have ‘Eyes Wide Open’ About Chinese Tech Risks
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines on March 1, 2019. Eloisa Lopez/Reuters
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MANILA—U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on March 1 that the world should be “eyes wide open” about the risks of using Chinese technology, and that there could be problems for American firms operating in certain places where Huawei equipment was deployed.

Pompeo was asked during a visit to Manila about the prospect of the Philippines using Huawei 5G technology in the future as it seeks to modernize outdated telecoms infrastructure.