Voices are growing within UK’s ruling party to block Chinese telecom giant Huawei from a role in the country’s 5G network, as the government signals a tougher stance towards Beijing over its handling of the CCP virus pandemic.
The UK government in January granted Huawei a role in building non-sensitive parts of its next-generation wireless network, and capped its involvement at 35 percent. But since then, opposition from within the ruling Conservative Party has cast doubt that the measure can be approved by Parliament, Bloomberg reported.